TO RELATIVE CAPACITY OF RACES, 



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of Races " ("Types of Mankind," p. 453), says: " Dr. Wyman, in Ms 

 post-mortem, examination of the famed Daniel Webster, found the 

 internal capacity of the cranium to be 122 cubic inches, and in a 

 private letter to me, he says : ' The circumference was measured 

 outside of the integuments before the scalp was removed, and may, 

 perhaps, as there was much emaciation, be a little less than in 

 health.' It was 23f inches in circumference ; and the Doctor states 

 that it is well-known there are several heads in Boston larger than 

 "Webster's. I have myself, in the last few weeks, measured half a 

 dozen heads as large and larger." The circumference, it will be seen, 

 exceeds the corresponding measurement of Scott's head, taken under 

 similar circumstances. But the statement of 122 cubic inches as the 

 internal capacity of Webster's skull seems open to question. If 

 correct, instead of 53-5 oz. of brain-weight, as stated in the following 

 table, it is the equivalent of a brain- weight of fully 65 oz., or one 

 in excess even of that of Cuvier. The brain-weights of Goodsir, 

 Simpson and Agassiz, are given in the following table from the 

 reported autopsy in each case. 



TABLE IV. 



BRAIK-WEIGHTS OV DISTINGUISHED MBK. 



2 

 3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 



13 



14 



15 



16 



17 



18 



19 



20 



Cuvier 



Byron 



Abercrombie. . . . 



SchiUer 



Goodsir 



Spurzheim 



Simpson 



Dirichlet 



De Morny 



Daniel Webster, 

 Campbell ...... 



Agassiz 



Chalmers 



Fuchs 



Gauss 



Dupuytren 



WheweU 



Hermann 



Tiedemann . . . 

 Hausmann 



Naturalist 



Poet 



Philosoplier, Physician. 



Poet 



Anatomist 



Phrenologist, Physician . 

 Physician, Archaeologist, 



Mathematician 



Statesman 



Statesman 



Lord Chancellor 



Naturalist 



Author, Preacher 



Pathologist 



Mathematician 



Surgeon 



Philosopher 



Philologist 



Physiologist 



Mineralogist 



GrM8. 



1830 

 1799 

 1785 

 1785 

 1629 

 1559 

 1530 

 1520 

 1520 

 1516 

 1516 

 1512 

 1502 

 1499 

 1492 

 1436 

 1390 

 1358 

 1254 

 1226 



