370 THE SIZE AND WEIGHT 



Name. Age. Ounces. Grammes. 



3. Schiller, Poe^ . 



4. Goodsir, Anatomist , • 

 6. Spurzheim, Physician , 



6. James Simpson, PJiysician 



7. Dirichlet, Matltemati.cian . 



8. De Moray, Statesman 



9. Daniel Webster, Statesman 



10. Campbell, Lord Chancellor 



11. Chauncey Wright, Physicist 



12. Agassiz, Naturalist . 



13. Chalmers, Celebrated Preacher 



14. Fuchs, Pathologist 



15. De Morgan, Mathematician 



16. Gauss, Mathematician 



17. Dupuytren, Surgeon . • 



18. Grote, Historian . • 



19. Whewell, Philosopher. . 



20. Hermann, Philologist 



21. Hughes Bennett, Phijsician 



22. Tiedemann, Anatomist 



23. Hausmann, Mineralogist , 



It is worthy of note that in this list, in addition to 

 the great proportion of high Brain-weights, there are also 

 four of distinguished men, which, even after allowance has 

 been made for some amount of atrophy consequent upon 

 age in two of them, would more or less distinctly fall 

 beneath the mere average weight of 49 oz. 



The facts set forth in the ahove tjible as well as those 

 detailed in the last section, are principally of interest 

 from their bearing upon the much and long-debated 

 question as to the existence of any necessary or invariable 

 connection between mere size or ic eight of Brain ami 

 Intelligence. Upon this subject a few brief remarks may 

 now be made. 



In the first place then, it seems perfectly plain from the 

 facts recorded that there is no necessary or invariable 



