The weight of each of the brains of 113 full blooded Filipino natives who
had died was taken to the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. Total weight:
150,690 grams. Average weight per brain: 1,333 grams.
This was compared with the brain weight taken of the European brain
(Scotch and English) and other races (Asian and African). The results
shwoed that the average weight of the Filipino brain was high and
compared favorably with the brain weight computed for European nations.
The result, if the figures are an indicator of the higher mental faculties
of man, is not discouraging to the Filipinos nor to the Americans who
claim that, as a people Filipinos may be educated to the same degree of
civilization as the western nations. - from Maximillian Herzog (1908).
American Anthropologist. American Anthropological Association:
Washington DC.
