XV. On the brain of a bushwoman; and on the brains of two idiots of European descent

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The chief purpose of the present paper is to describe the convolutions of a Bushwoman’s brain, and also those of the two smallest human idiot brains yet on record, belonging respectively to a microcephalic woman and boy of English parentage. But other points of interest, such as the weight, size, general form, and internal structure of these brains and their several parts, are likewise noticed; and, in the case of the idiots, such information is prefixed as could be collected concerning their feeble mental and bodily powers. The attention which has recently been directed to the study of the cerebral anatomy of man, as compared with that of the quadrumanous animals, and the acknowledged scantiness of our information concerning the brain in the various races of mankind, induced me to request several medical friends residing in our colonies, to endeavour to procure certain specimens for me.

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