Note 159 — VIII RELATIVE RACIAL BRAIN-WEIGHT AND SIZE

The internal capacity of 59 oz. is given here from the Thesaurus Craniorum, p. 40, in correction of that of 50 oz. stated in the memoir in Transactions of the Dutch Society of Sciences, Haarlem, p. 21, which may be presumed to be a misprint. Dr. Davis adds, in the Thesaurus Craniorum: “An early closure of the sutures has occasioned a stunted growth of the brain, especially of its convolutions, and thus prevented the development of those structures and faculties which might have given a different direction to his lower propensities”; and he justly adds his conviction that this was a case rather for timely treatment as a dangerous idiot, than for punishment as a criminal.