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nature; and he says that the earanee which he draws from the 
facts reviewed is that “a superi damn eat has guided the de- 
upreme 
Tntalligence”” We cite a few eae from the part of his argu- 
chief races:—Teutonic family, 94 cubic Be pe Esquimaux, 91 
cubic inches; Negroes, 85 cubic inches; Australians and Tas- 
enor 82 cubic inches; Bushmen, 77 cubic inches. These last 
umbers, however, are deduced from rigs few speci- 
ragRe and may be ‘below the average, just a mall n riegire s 
Finns and Cossacks pi 98 cubic inches, or staciiiins erably m 
than that of the German races. It is evident, therefore, that the 
absolute bulk of ghok ro is not necessarily much less in savage 
than in civilized man, for Esquimaux skulls are known with a 
capacity of 113 sacle: or hardly less than the i agi 
Kuropeans.* But what is still more extraordinary, the few 
mains yet known of, re kide oric man an. not indicate any sca ae 
aiomtaneion 3 in the size of the brain case. A Swiss skull of the 
stone age, found in the lake dwelling of Meilen, corresponded 
exactly to that of a Swiss pe of the present da ay. The’ cele- 
average, and its capacity, i indicatin ng actual mass of brain, is 
estimated to have been not less than 75 cubic inches, or nearly ‘the 
average of existing Australian crania. The Engis skull, perha 
the oldest known, and which, according to Sir John Lubboe 
er 
or aici have contained the i me brains of a sear of 
a paper read bufire et Congress 0: 
los oy >atet te Sor The capacity of the th te the roa coreg 
gee. the fine elliptical form of the anterior 
a ‘profile of the s incontestible characteristics o: supe- 
riority, such as we are accustomed tomeet with in civilized races.” 
brad e the apparant se 
that many of the oun ae should have as much brains 
average Huropeans, e is suggested of a surplusage of 
power; of an instrument inte the need of its possesso 9 
order to discover if there is any foundation for this notion, Tet us 
male 
compare the brain of man that of animals, The adalt 
* While the largest Teutonic skull in Dr. Davis’s collection is 112-4 cubic inches 
there is an Araucanian of 115°5, an Esquimaux of 113-1, a Marquesan of 110°6, a 
Wegsoct 1 105°8, and even an Australian of 1 104°5 cubic inches 
