In a postmortem discussed at a meeting of the Natural History Society at Bonn in 1868 it was demonstrated by Schaufhausen that in a dwarf subject the brain weighed 1/19 of the body, in contradistinction to the average proportion of adults, from 1 to 30 to 1 to 44.

The subject was a dwarf of sixty-one who died in Coblentz, and was said to have grown after his thirtieth year.

His height was 2 feet 10 inches and his weight 45 pounds.

The circumference of the head was 520 mm.

and the brain weighed 1183.33 gm.
and was well convoluted.