[53] As showing the result of individual effort, I may mention that in the year 1894, as much as £155 0s. 7d. was collected in the N. Walsham District, £89 12s. 9d. in the Norwich District, and £80 15s. 6d. in the Diss District, under the presidentship respectively of Mrs. Petre, Lady Lade, and Mrs. Sancroft Holmes. [54] The Countess of Warwick, at the "Young Helpers' League." [55] Des Maladies Mentales, Tome ii., p. 103. INDEX. Affleck, Dr., 93 Alcoholic stimulants as a factor in the genesis of idiocy, 26 abuse of, in Sweden, 29 effects of, in France, 31 Sir B.W. Richardson on, 30 Anæmia, as the result of thyroid feeding, 97 Anderson, Mrs. Garrett, on Sex in Education, 37 Andriessen, on the cerebral convolutions of idiots, 51 Animals, relation between their intelligence and the size of their brain, 49 Association of idiots with the insane, a disadvantage to both classes, 19 Aveyron, the savage of the, 18 Beach, Fletcher, 25, 27, 28 Besant, Sir Walter, 76 Birth, injuries of the head at, 48 Blood, analysis of, in thyroid feeding, 96 supply of, varies in the two sexes, 37 Bourneville, on Craniectomy, 101 Brain, average weight of, in men and women, 46 chemistry of the, 52 difference between that of a senior wrangler and that of an idiot, 43 difference in the two sexes, 37 microscopical appearance of, in idiots, 51 of gorilla and ourang-outang, 75 size and weight, in proportion to intellectual power, 43 structure of, in men of genius, 44 Bramwell, Byrom, 93, 98 Browne, Sir J. Crichton, on Sex in Education, 36 Browne, Sir Thomas, 79 Bruce, Lewis C., on thyroid feeding, 95 Burton-Fanning, 94 Caird, Mrs. Mona, 39 Causes of idiocy, 23 Cicero, 69 Classification, 17 Consanguine marriages, 32 Convolutions of the brain in men of genius, and in those of low culture, 45 in idiots, 51 Couerbe, on the rôle of phosphorus in the brain, 52 Craniectomy, 101 statistics of, 103 Cranium, early closure of the sutures of, 101 Cranium, form of the, and its connection with idiocy, 43 Cross, Lord, on habitual drunkards, 31 Crossley House, 107 Cuvier, brain of, 46 Dahl, Ludwig, 25, 29 Dana, on Craniectomy, 102 Definition of idiocy, 15 Dunlop, 93 Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society, discussion at, 92 Educational Overpressure, on, 35 has induced suicide in children, 41 Esquirol, 85, 118 Faculty a, must not be confounded with its material organ, 63 Forceps, use of, as a cause of idiocy, 48 Fraser, Professor, anæmia following thyroid feeding, 97 Frere, Bartle, 20 Froude, 77 Gambetta, the brain of, 46 Genius, a neurosis, 53 its relation to cerebral structure, 44 Goethe, 69 Greenfield, Professor, 93 Gynagogues, 40 Hammond, G.M., 93 Hammond, Prof. W.A., 49, 60 Heredity, its rôle in idiocy, 25