Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1911 — Varying Weight of Brain. [ARTICLE]

Varying Weight of Brain.

The average weight of the male brain is from 40 to 60 ounces; that of the average female brain about five ounces less. The ratio of the brain weight to that of the body Is the same in both sexes; consequently the differ ence of weight in the brain of males and females is due to the lesser body weight In woman and not to Inferior cerebral development. Thackeray and Cuvier had brains weighing 64 and .58 ounces, respectively, while the brain of Gambetta weighed but 41 ounces, or less than that of the average boy of seven. The brain of Byron weighed 60 ounces and that of Dante but 60. Simms found an Idiot boy whose brain weighed 69 ounoes and an Ignorant man who had a brain weighing 78 ounces.