Footnote 10:
A. Baer, one of the fiercest opponents of criminal anthropology,
pushes his criticism so far as to maintain in his leading work “that
the formation of the skull is in no way dependent upon that of the
brain.” The book, upon p. 12 of which will be found this monumental
nonsense, is entitled by Baer “Der Verbrecher in anthropologischer
Beziehung” (“The Criminal from the Anthropological Standpoint”),
Leipzig, 1893.
Footnote 11:
“Iets over criminelle Anthropologie,” Haarlem, 1896; P. H. J. Berends,
“Eenige Schedelmaten van Recruten, Mordenaars, Paranoisten,
Epileptici, en Imbecillen,” Nymegen, 1896.
Footnote 12:
The “Inca bone” will be found figured in Toldt’s “Atlas of Human
Anatomy” (London: Rebman, Limited), p. 100, fig. 218, where it is
described as “a large Wormian bone in the uppermost part of the
lambdoid suture.”
Footnote 13:
Certain peculiarities are discoverable in the brains of criminals
which are not yet explicable on comparative anatomical considerations.
I have described these as _atypical_, and in my “Natural History of
the Criminal” I have collected and discussed them. Since the date of
publication of this work (1893) only one extensive investigation of
the brains of criminals has been undertaken, and in this the number of
brains dealt with was about equal to the number examined in all the
previous investigations put together. In so far as it furnishes any
new particulars, this investigation confirms the doctrine of criminal
anthropology, a fact of especial interest for the reason that the
brains examined were chiefly those of women (Leggiardi-Laura, _Rivista
di sc. biologiche_, ii., 4–5, 1900; _ibid._, _Giorn. de le R.
Accademia di Torino_, 1900, fasc. 5).
Footnote 14:
The _ear-point_, or _tubercle of Darwin_, is a small prominence on the
edge of the helix, an atavistic vestige of the former point of the
ear. It is sometimes called _Woolner’s tip_, Darwin’s attention having
been drawn to this prominence by the sculptor Woolner (Toldt’s “Atlas
of Human Anatomy,” London, Rebman, Limited).
Footnote 15:
The Germans speak of thieves as being _langfingerig_, “long-fingered,”
in the same sense in which we in England speak of them as
“light-fingered.”—TRANSLATOR.
Footnote 16:
“La Donna Delinquente, la Prostituta, e la Donna Normale.”
Footnote 17:
Havelock Ellis confirms this statement, as the result of a most
laborious investigation (“Man and Woman,” 4th edition, London, 1904,
chap. xvi, and appendix).
Footnote 18:
Aschaffenburg also writes: “I believe that in some instances we are
entitled to regard the prostitute as the equivalent of the criminal;
but, notwithstanding this, I believe that the complement to the
prostitute is to be looked for, not in the thief, the pickpocket, or
the forger, but rather in the beggar and the vagrant.”
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