NEGRO TESTS
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PROFESSOR TALKS ON ADAPTING MANNER OF LIFE BRAINWEIGHT & BRAINWAVES
• London, Dec. 16. "I wonder if we had had to adapt ourselves to an elaborate negro civililisation would we have made such a good job of it as the negro has in adapting himself to ours," said Sir Altfyur Keith,' Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of S'urgeons," commenting on the results of recent anatomical research in Kenya. Measuring the cranial capacity of 3444 natives, Dr. Gordon found that the average native. brain is 10 to 11 per cent. smaller than that of Europeans. .. x Examination of 100 dead showed that in grey matter the natives are 15 per cent. deficient compared with whites%-
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 726, 29 December 1933, Page 5
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118NEGRO TESTS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 726, 29 December 1933, Page 5
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