TO RELATIVE CAPACfITT Of RACES. 



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Marburg. In this skull the frontal suture is still more strongly- 

 defined at the age of 60 than in that of Heinse. The internal 

 capacity of the skull is stated as 42-8 oz., equivalent to 1213 grms., 

 which, dealt with as above stated, yields 1410 grms. or 49 "8 oz. av. 

 Other dimensions of the skull are given as follows : 



Pore part . . 

 Middle part 

 Hind part . . 



Height. 



4-8 

 4-& 

 3-7 



Length. 



4-1 

 4-1 

 3.10 



Beeadth. 



4-20 

 5 

 4-1 



Professor Welcker assigns a standard, which was accepted by Dr, 

 Thurnam, thus: "Skulls of more than 540 to 550 millemetres in 

 horizontal circumference (the weight of brain belonging to which is 

 1490 to 1560 grms., or 52-5-55 oz. avoirdupois), are to be regarded 

 as exceptionally large. The designation of kephalones, proposed by 

 Virchow, might commence from this point. Men with great mental 

 endowments fall, for the most part, under the definition of kephalony. 

 If we consider the relations of capacity, 1800 grms. (63-5 oz.) appears 

 to be the greatest attainable weight of brain within a skull not 

 pathologically enlarged." But the brain of Cuvier — the heaviest 

 healthy brain yet recorded, — exceeded thia. Its weight is stated by 

 Wagner as 1861 grammes, or 65*8 oz. ; but this M. Broca corrects 

 to 1829-96 grammes. Even thus reduced it exceeds the limits 

 assigned by Professor Welcker to the normal healthy brain. But a 

 curious commentary upon this is furnished by the fact that the 

 modern English skull which Dr. J. B. Davis selects as presenting 

 the most striking analogy to the Neanderthal skull — " the most ape- 

 like skull which Professor Huxley had ever beheld," — though marked 

 not only by the prominence of the superciliary ridges, but by great 

 depression of the frontal region, appears to have a cubical capacity 

 equivalent to that of Dr. Abercrombie, whose brain is only surpassed 

 by that of Cuvier among the ascertained brain- weights of distin- 

 guished men.* Its capacity is 9^4 oz. of sand, or 113 cubic inches. 



* "Memoirs of Anthrop. Soe., Lond.," Vol. I., p. 289. "Thesaurus Craniorum," p. 49^ 



