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THE SIZE AND WEIGHT 



Brain- Weights of Sixteen Chinese. 



Males. 



Females. 



Average 45*45 



The significance of these figures will hereafter he re- 

 ferred to. 



Mental Power and Degree of Education. — Under 

 this head we may hriefly pass in review what is known as 

 to the correlation in the human suhject of Intelligence 

 and degree of Education, with size and weight of Brain. 

 Many more facts are needed before much light can be 

 considered to be thrown upon this subject ; and, moreover, 

 some of the data at present in our possession seem at 

 first sight rather contradictory. The contradiction is, 

 however, more apparent than real. 



Some hints have already been given upon this subject, 

 in what has been said as to the greater capacity of skull 

 and weight of Brain in uncivilized as compared with civi- 

 lized races, and also in reference to the greater cranial 

 capacity of Parisians of the nineteenth as contrasted with 

 those of the twelfth century. Other facts having the same 

 general bearing may now be referred to. It was, for 



