[11] Magnan, _Annales Médico-psych._, 1887; Déjerine, _L’Hérédité dans
les Maladies Mentales_, 1886; Ireland, _The Blot upon the Brain_, 1885.
[12] _I Caratteri dei Delinquenti_, 1886, Turin.
[13] _Méd. de l’Esprit_, ii.
[14] Lamartine, _Cours de Littérature_, ii.
[15] _Revue Britannique_, 1884.
[16] Canesterini, _Il Cranio di Fusinieri_, 1875.
[17] Plutarch, _Life of Pericles_, iii.
[18] Kupfer, “Der Schädel Kants,” in _Arch. für Anth._, 1881.
[19] Welcker, _Schiller’s Schädel_, 1883.
[20] Mantegazza, _Sul Cranio di Foscolo_, Florence, 1880.
[21] Turner, _Quarterly Journal of Science_, 1864.
[22] De Quatrefages, _Crania Ethnica_, Part i. p. 30.
[23] Zoja, _La Testa di Scarpa_, 1880.
[24] _Sul Cranio di Volta_, 1879, Turin.
[25] Welcker, _Schiller’s Schädel_, 1883.
[26] _Revue Scientifique_, 1882.
[27] Wagner (_Das Hirngewicht_, 1877) gives these measurements of
scientific men of Gottingen:--
Dirichlet Mathematician Age 54 1520 g.
Fuchs Physician “ 52 1499 g.
Gauss Mathematician “ 78 1492 g.
Hermann Philologist “ 51 1358 g.
Hausmann Mineralogist “ 77 1226 g.
Bischoff (_Hirngewichte bei Münchener Gelehrten_) gives the following
measurements:--
Hermann Geometrician Age 60 1590 g.
Pfeufer Physician “ 60 1488 g.
Bischoff Physician “ 79 1452 g.
Melchior Meyer Poet “ 61 1415 g.
Arnoldi Orientalist “ 85 1730 g.
Thackeray Novelist “ 52 1660 g.
Abercrombie Physician “ 64 1780 g.
Cuvier Naturalist “ 63 1829 g.
Doell Archæologist “ 85 1650 g.
Schiller Poet “ 46 1580 g.
Huber Philosopher “ 47 1499 g.
Fallmerayer Historian “ 74 1349 g.
Liebig Chemist “ 70 1352 g.
Tiedemann Physiologist “ 79 1254 g.
Harless Chemist “ 40 1238 g.
Döllinger Physiologist “ 71 1207 g.
The measurement of the cerebral area often gives superiority even to
those men of genius who present a feeble weight. Fuchs had a cerebral
surface of 22,1005 square c. and Gauss of 21,9588; while with the
same weight the same surface in an unknown woman was 20,4115 and in a
workman 18,7672.
[28] _Bulletin de la Société d’Anthropologie_, 1861.
[29] _Die tiefen Windungen des Menschenhirnes_, 1877.
[30] Mendel, _Centralblatt_, No. 4, 1884.
[31] _Ein Beitrag zur Anatomie der Affenspalte und der Interparietal
Furche beim Menschen nach Rasse, Geschlecht, und Individualität_, 1886.
[32] _Bulletin de la Société d’Anthropologie_, 1886, p. 135.
[33] _La Circonvolution de Broca_, Paris, 1888.
[34] _Vorstudien, &c._, 1st Memoir, 1860.
[35] _Le Cerveau et la Pensée_, t. ii. p. 46.
[36] Gallichon in _Gazette des Beaux Arts_, 1867.
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