1 ' I Ihe Smitlisonian Institution of , U.S.A. announces that Dr. Ales Hrdlika, its Curator of Physical Anthropology, , unearthed a skull in the Aleutian ls- ■ tands last summer having a brain 3 taat of Turgenev, the Russian novelist. capacity of 2,005 cubic centimeties. As • far a« is known this is the second largest skull on record. The largest is i that of Turgenev, the Russian novelist, j which had a brain capacity of 2,030 , e.cin. After the Aleutian skull ranl; ] those of Daniel Webster, 2,000c.cm., \ Bismarck, 1,966 c.cm., Lafontaine, 1,950 1 c.cni., Beethoven, 1,750 c.cm., and Kant, •, 1,740 c.cm. It is not certain that the. | skull found by Dr. Hrdlika is tbat of 1 an Aleutian aborigine, as the facial t bones are uu&sing, a
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370220.2.12.3
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 31, 20 February 1937, Page 3
Word Count
124Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 31, 20 February 1937, Page 3
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in