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face was fairly moist ; it only lost about one ounce weight after the 

 usual dissection and draining for two hours." The man's height 

 was five feet nine inches, and he was of a robust frame. It was 

 difficult to obtain any satisfactory history of him — his wife and his 

 landlady gave different accounts. It seemed, however, that ho 

 was a native of Sussex ; that he " had left his native village and 

 changed his name on account of some poaching troubles ; that he 

 ■was not very sober ; had a good memory, and was fond of politics. 

 He could neither read nor write. " Whatever his potentialities 

 might have been, therefore, it is evident that his actual acquire- 

 ments were not great. 



(3.) The comments which we shall have to make on 

 these latter cases will be better reserved till some illustra- 

 tions have been given of the existence of high Brain- 

 weights among men of great mental powers and acquire- 

 ments — some of whom in their various spheres of life and 

 occupation have been among the foremost representatives 

 of Human Intelligence. Subjoined is a list given by 

 Thurnam, together with eight additional brain- weights, 

 viz., those of Schiller, Agassiz, Professor Goodsir, Sir 

 James Simpson, Mr. Chauncey Wright, De Morgan, 

 Grote, and Dr. Hughes Bennett.* 



Brain-Weights of Distinguished Men. 



Name. Age. Ounces. Grammes. 



1. Cuvier, Naturalist ... 63 64'5 1830 



2. Ahercromhie, Physician . .64 63 1785 



* References will be found in Dr. Thurnam's paper for the place 

 of record of most of these high brain- weights tabulated by him 

 The eight additional weights here given have been, in the above 

 order, thus referred to, published, or ascertained : — (1) Schiller and 

 Agassiz, by Daniel Wilson, in " Canadian Journal," Oct. 1876 ; 

 (2) Goodsir's "Anatom. Memoirs," vol. i. p. 195 ^1868); (3) "Med. 

 Times and Gaz," May 14, 1870, p. 532 ; (4) Thos. Dwight in 

 "Proceed. American Acad, of Arts and Sciences," vol. xiii. (1878); 



(5) Examination made by Dr. Wilson Fox and the writer in 1871 ; 



(6) Examination by Prof. Marshall in 1871 ; (7) " Brit. Med- 

 Journ.," Oct. 9, 1873. 



