J882.] Editors' Table. 



birds we find only thirteen, twelve and eleven, and still few 

 such forms as the ostrich and emeu. 



To tabulate our list then, we find for the 



Thigh = I = Femur. 



Knee =2 = patella and sesamoid of fibula. 



In this enumeration the reader will observe that if I have left out 

 any such ossifications as the tendons may assume, they properly 

 belong to the muscular system. 



EDITORS* TABLE. 



EDITORS : A. S. PACKARD, JR., AND E. D. COPE. 



The consensus of scientific opinion regarding the mental 



condition of Guiteau, is at present identical with that expressed 

 in our editorial of August, 1881. The importance of the exami- 

 nation of the brain of this person has not been overlooked, and 

 an investigation has accordingly been made. The brain was de- 

 livered t^some medical gentlemen of Philadelphia, and the report 

 of one of them has been published in the newspapers. The 

 result is about what was to have been anticipated where a simply 

 medical expert is selected for such a work. The business of the 

 physician being to alleviate and cure disease, his studies are 

 chiefly in the direction of pathology (or diseased structure) and 

 therapeutics. So the investigation of the brain of Guiteau, as 

 reported by Dr. Shakespeare, was confined to a search for the 

 evidence of disease. Like the other medical experts who testi- 

 fied during the trial, he seems to be ignorant of the science of 

 anthropology, and of the various types of structure presented by 

 the mammalian and especially the human brain. As was the 

 case during the trial, the question of malformation is not referred 

 to. Yet all mental qualities, normal and abnormal, doubtless 

 depend on peculiarities of brain structure, such as may be totally 

 independent of the question of disease. The study of the rela- 



