BIG HEADS AND BRAINS.
Dr. Arthur Macdonald, of Washington, who has circularised British M.P.'s, asking them to supply him with the breadth, length, height and circumference of their heads and other "anthropological measurements," declares that because one man has a heavier brain than another it does not mean that lie is more intelligent. The brains of 100 distinguished persons have, however, been etudied, and in the great majority the weight is above the average. What is true is that the size of the skull constitutes a good index to the size of the brain; but the size of the brain is not a practical index to intelligence. Some of the higher animals possess a brain larger than that of man.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1934, Page 12
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