186 BRAIN-WEIGHT AND SIZE IN RELATION 



and its internal capacity is stated as 59-5 oz. av., equivalent to 71*7 

 cub. inches. The Coles appear to be small of stature. The heights 

 of three of them, whose skulls are in the same collection, were 

 respectively 5 ft. 6 in., 5 ft. 2 in., and 5 ft., and the average internal 

 capacity of five male skulls is only 66-6. The small stature in this 

 and others of the native races of Central India, has to be taken into 

 account in estimating the relative size of the brain. But the Cole 

 skulls are remarkable for their small size, being smaller even than 

 the ordinary Hindoos of Bengal. Yet one of them, " Cootlo," whose 

 skull is among those included in the above mean, commanded a band 

 of insurgents in the Porahant rebellion of 1858, and made himself 

 a terror to the district. 



The microcephalism of races, as well as of individuals, of small- 

 stature, must not be confounded with the true microcephaly of a 

 dwarfed or imperfectly developed brain, which is invariably accom- 

 panied with mental imbecility. The Mincopies of the Andaman 

 Islands are spoken of by Professor Owen as "perhaps the most 

 primitive, or lowest in the scale of civilization, of the human race."* 

 Mr. Gr. E. Dobson, in describing his first visit to one of their 

 "homes," says : "Although none of the tribe exceeded 64 inches in 

 height, so that on first seeing them we thought the shed contained 

 none but boys and girls, I was especially struck by the remarkable 

 contrast between the size of the males and females."! Dr. J. B. 

 Davis has given, in the supplement to " Thesaurus Craniorum," the 

 dimensions of a male Mincopie skeleton in his collection. The age he 

 assumes to have been about thirty-five. The intei'nal capacity of the 

 skull is 62 oz. (Calais sand), equivalent to 75-5 cubic inches, and the 

 entire height of the skeleton is 5 8 '7 inches. It belongs, says Dr. 

 Davis, to a pigmy race, is small in all its dimensions, and is particxi- 

 iarly small in the dimensions of the pelvis. Of their skulls, moreover, 

 he adds, '.' it is somewhat diflicult to determine the sex with confi- 

 dence. They are all small (but this is a character of the race), they 

 are delicate in development, and they have that fullness of. the • 

 occipital region, and smallness of the mastoid processes, which are 

 marks of feminism." 



Mr. Alfred E. Wallace connects the Mincopies with the Negritos 

 and Semangs of the Malay peninsula, a dark woolly-haired race, 



* "Report of Britisli Association," 1861. 

 t" Journal Anthrop. Inst.," Vol. IV, p. 464. 



