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The largest head in the series measures ninety-seven cubic inches; this occurs three 
times, and always in the Pelasgic group. The smallest cranium gives but sixty-eight 
cubic inches, and this is three times repeated in the Egyptian heads from Thebes. This 
last is the smallest brain I have met with in any nation, with three exceptions,—a Hindoo, 
a Peruvian, and a Negro. 
The Negroid heads, it will be observed, measure, on an average, eighty cubic inches, 
which is below the Negro mean; while the solitary Negro head (that of a person advanced 
in years,) measures but seventy-three cubic inches.* 
As this, however, is a question of much interest and some novelty, it may, perhaps, be 
better illustrated in a tabular form :— 
Ethnographic Division. Locality. Fad ‘em ging Mean. 
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Memphis. | 14 | 97 | 79 | 89 | O 
. Abydos. 1 | 89 | 89 | 89 {@ 
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Phile. 1 | 74 | 74.174 | 
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Semitic Form. Abydos. 1 | 69 | 69 | 69 ps 
Thebes. BS 1.60 | Te | ae | © 
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Memphis.| 7 | 83 | 73 | 79 ]) 3 
Abydos. 2 | 96 | 8 | 90 | ® 
Egyptian Form. | Thebes. 25 | 95 | 68 | 80 ps 
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* T have in my possession seventy-nine crania of Negroes born in Africa, for which I am indebted to Doctors Goheen 
and M‘Dowell, lately attached to the medical department of the Colony at Liberia, in western Africa; and especially to 
Don Jose Rodriguez Cisneros, M. D., of Havana, in the island of Cuba. Of the whole number, fifty-eight are adult, or 
sixteen years of age, and upwards, and give eighty-five cubic inches for the average size of the brain. 
measures ninety-nine cubic inches; the smallest but sixty-five. The latter, which is that ofa middle-aged woman, is the 
smallest adult head that has hitherto come under my notice. 
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