He wants to understand the meaning of what he is
taught, and some kind of an explanation must be given him for
what he learns. Were his memory alone abnormally great and other
faculties defective, this would hardly be the case; but if so, it
cannot at present be determined.
"His complexion is yellow, with African features, flat nose,
thick lips but not prognathous, superciliary ridges undeveloped,
causing the forehead to protrude a little. His head measures 19
inches in circumference, on a line with the upper ear-tips, the
forehead being much narrower than the occipitoparietal portion,
which is noticeably very wide. The occiput protrudes backward,
causing a forward sweep of the back of the neck. From the
nose-root to the nucha over the head he measures 13 1/2 inches,
and between upper ear- tips across and over the head 11 inches,
which is so close to the eight-and ten-inch standard that he may
be called mesocephalic. The bulging in the vicinity of the
parietal region accords remarkably with speculations upon the
location of the auditory memory in that region, such as those in
the American Naturalist, July, 1888, and the fact that injury of
that part of the brain may cause loss of memory of the meaning of
words.
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