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PROFESSOR TIEDEMANN ON THE BRAIN OF THE NEGRO. 
Plate XXXIII. b: its internal structure and the arrangement of the substantia cor- 
ticalis and medullaris are also the same. In order to show that there is no difference 
in size and dimensions, with the exception arising from the different size of the 
body, I give two Tables of the dimensions of the Negro and European cerebellum. 
I measured the brains of the following individuals of the Ethiopian race : 
1st. Of a Negro whose brain I received from Liege. Plates XXX. XXXI. XXXII 
XXXIII. 
2nd. Of a Negro preserved in the Museum of Comparative Anatomy, in the Jardin 
du Roi, at Paris. 
3rd. Of a Bosjes woman, dissected by Cuvier*, which I found in the Museum of 
Comparative Anatomy. Plate XXXIV. This woman was only 4 feet 6 inches 7 lines 
in height, according to the measure of the Parisian Academy. I give also the dimen- 
sions of the brain of a Negro mentioned by the brothers Wenzel. 
Table I. 
Dimensions of the Cerebellum and Nodus Encephali of Negroes. 
Negro Honore'. 
Brain of a Negro 
preserved in the 
Museum of Com- 
parative Anatomy 
at Paris. 
Brain of the 
Bosjes woman 
called Hottentot 
Venus. 
Brain of a Negro 
measured by 
the brothers 
Wenzel. 
Breadth or transverse diameter of 
the cerebellum 
Longitudinal diameter of the cere- 
bellum in the middle j 
Breadth of the nodus encephali be- 
tween the nervi quinti J 
Longitudinal diameter of the nodus 
encephali in the middle 
' 
in. lin. 
3 4 
2 4 
1 H 
0 10i 
in. lin. 
3 3| 
2 5 
in. lin. 
3 2i 
2 41 
in. lin. 
4 1 
2 6 
Table II. 
Dimensions of the Cerebellum and Nodus Encephali of Europeans. 
Males. 
Females. 
in. lin. 
in. lin. 
in. lin. 
in. lin. 
in. lin. 
in. lin. 
in. lin. 
in. lin. 
in. lin. 
Greatest breadth of the cerebellum . . 
4 3 
3 11 
3 10 
3 8 
3 7 
3 6 
3 6 
3 5 
3 3 
Longitudinal diameter of the cere- ’ 
L 
9 7 
9 £ 
O ct I 
2 5 
2 5 
2 4 
helium in the middle 
r 
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Breadth of the nodus encephali be- 
L 
1 4 
1 3 
1 2 
i i£ 
1 1 
l H 
1 U 
1 01 
tween the nervi quinti 
x x 2 
3 
Longitudinal diameter of the nodus " 
1 l 
1 O 1 
A 
1 0 
1 0 
0 11 
0 10 
encephali in the middle 
* Cuvier (Extrait d’ Observations, faites sur le cadavre d’une femme connue sous le nom de Venus Hot- 
tentotte ; Memoires du Museum de l’Histoire Naturelle, tom. iii. p. 266.) has given a description of the in- 
dividual publicly exhibited in London and Paris under the name of the Hottentot Venus. 
