The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-21
GAVE BRAINS TO SCIENCE.
More Similar Requests Wanted-Men
 With Big and Little Heads


 More Similar Requests Wanted-Me
 With Big and Little Heads.
 It may not be. generally known that all over the civilized world there is strong demand for brains that are a little above the average in quality, not intelligence, intellect, or genius, but literally that part of the human organ ism which is contained within the skull and is known as the brain
 Scientists who devote themselves to the study of comparative anatomy have for the most part nothing better to dissect than the brains of paupers and lunatics These, however, leave much to be desired, and it is to the interest of the human family that the brains of cultured and learned people should be placed at the disposal of those patient and laborious men who are engaged in the vastly important work of unraYelling the secrets of the working mind.
 But it must not be supposed that certain number of such brains are not forthcoming Comparatively speaking, they are few, but still more numerous than most people imagine In the great majority of cases they are bequeathed by their respective owners. On one occasion Sir William Fowler, the famous authority on com paratiye anatomy, in addressing an audience of cultured men and women, spoke of the difficulties he and his fellow workers had to contend with in having little else than the brains of people of low intellect to dissect and went so far as to appeal to the audi ence to help science in this matter in the only possible way.
 On the conclusion of his address several members of the audience, in- cluding few ladies, promised to be- queath their brains to him, and it is said, proved as good as their word.
 More than one man of great eminence has regarded 1t as something in the nature of duty to do this in the in- terest of science. Prof. Goldwin Smith, 1 for instance, some time ago formally willed his brains to Cornell University. | Some remarkable brains have been sold, not given. An Englishmah who calls himself Datas has disposed of his | to an Americanuniversi for $10.000 He l is man of little education, and for many years worked as a coal miner.
 But he has a marvellous memory, es- lpecially for dates, and is now earn | ing handsome income on the music, hall stage. Any member of the audi ence may ask him the date of some Ioccurance, and Is answered instantly | It Is considered that his brain must show some very unusual development | and there was not little bidding to secure it after death
 | It stands to reason that the brain of a man of intellect offers a much richer field for observation than the brain of pauper or some other hu- man derelect The brains of great men vary very much, more, in fact than
 do those of nonentities It is found
 that men of encyclopaedia mind have
 large and heavy brains Gladstone
 had to wear very big hat-with an
 enormous bed of gray matter and nu-
 merous convultions; on the other hand,
 men who genius is concentrated upon
 one line of though are of small brain,
 and consequently have small head.
 Newton, Rryon, and Cromwell be-
 longed to this class, and each had a
 small head. Yet many people imagine | that this is q sign of small mental ca
 paclty. A visitor who was shown the
 of Cromwell was so disappointed at it's
 size that the caretaker of the relic
 endeavorad to console him by saying
 that this was the skull of the great
 Roundhead when he was a boy Prof,
 Symes. Thompson told this anecdote in
 recent lecture, and he also mention
 ed that Newton was so small when
 born that he could be put inside a quart pot,-From the Scientific Am erican.