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IN the memoir read by Dr. Venn, on April 24, at the Anthropological Institute, upon the measurements made, during the last three years, of the students of Cambridge, one column is assigned to what he terms “Head Products,” and which may fairly be interpreted as “Relative Brain Volumes.” The entries in it are obtained by multiplying together the maximum length and breadth of the head and its height above a specified plane. The product of the three determines the contents of a rectangular box that would just include the portion of the head referred to. The capacity of this box would be only rudely proportionate to that of the skull in individual cases, but Ought to be closely proportionate in the average of many cases. The relation they bear to one another affords, as it seems to me, a trustworthy basis for the following discussion, especially as all the measurements were made not only on a uniform plan, but by the same operator.
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Head Growth in Students at the University of Cambridge 1 . Nature 38, 14–15 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038014a0
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