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DR. J. BARNARD DAVIS ON THE WEIGHT OF THE BEAIN 
men and 31 those of women, is 44*64 oz., or 1265 grms. This is 2*48 oz., or 70 grms., 
less than the general mean brain-weight among European Races. It is also so near the 
general mean of the Asiatic and African Races, as to lead to the conclusion that all three 
may be regarded in general as nearly equal in the weights of their brains. 
Table V. — Australian Races. 
We come next to the Australian Races, or the Tribes occupying the Great Australian 
Continent, and Van Diemen’s Land. These are highly interesting people, impressed as 
they are so deeply with marked differences from the races of all the rest of the globe. 
These differences extend to their average brain-weights. 
1. Australians . — These 24 crania of Australians, 17 those of men and 7 of women, 
afford a general mean brain-weight of 41*38 oz., or 1173 grms.* 
2. Tasmanians . — Of these there are 11 examples, 7 those of men and 4 of women, 
and they yield a slightly higher brain-weight than the mean of the Australians. This 
might have been expected, as they are a distinct race, and also decidedly more robust in 
physical conformation than the gracile Australians. 
The investigation of the 35 skulls of Australian Races, 24 of which are those of men 
and 11 those of women, gives a general mean brain-weight of 41*81 oz., or 1185 grms. 
In this they stand apart from the people of all the other great divisions of the globe by 
possessing the smallest brain. They have a brain-weight which is one-ninth less than 
that of Europeans. 
Table VII. — Oceanic Races. 
The last great section into which for convenience we have divided human beings. It 
includes the aboriginal inhabitants of all the Islands of the North and of the South Pacific 
Oceans. It embraces very diverse peoples, differing materially in physical conformation 
and every human character. Some of these races are distinguished by considerable deve- 
lopment of the brain, whilst others are as remarkable for deficiency of brain-weight. 
A few brief remarks upon these peculiarities must suffice. 
* Dr. Weisbach states the mean stature of two Australian men to have been 1617 millims., or 5 feet 
3-7 inches, and that of two Australian women 1552 millims., or 5 feet 1*2 inch. The two Victorian Austra- 
lians measured by Dr. Ludwig Becker were respectively 5 feet 2 inches and 6 feet inches. By adding to 
these the few reliable replies obtained by the Select Committee of the Legislative Council of Victoria, where the 
data were acquired by actual measurements, we obtain a mean stature of 15 Australia men of 5 feet 6 inches. 
(Report on the Aborigines, Victoria, 1858-59.) The only two women said to have been positively measured 
were respectively 4 feet 10|- inches and 4 feet 11 inches. These, together with Dr. Weisbach’s examples, 
afford a mean of 4 feet 11-5 inches. The heights of three skeletons of male Australians are respectively 1514 
millims., or 4 feet 11-7 inches, 1540 millims., or 5 feet 0'6 inch, and 1660 millims, or 5 feet 3 - l inches, in the 
mean 5 feet 1-9 inch. There is no reason to doubt that the stature of Australians in different regions of the 
continent varied, even that of different Tribes did not agree. These singular and interesting people afford con- 
vincing evidence fhat the weight of the brain is a special race-character. 
