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Show The brain weight of man exceeds that of all animals except the elephant (4,500 grammes)[grams] and the larger ?[celaces] (2.500 grammes). The brain weight of the largest apes is hardly a third of a man's. Prof. [Professor] Bischoff's data comprise the weights of brain of 550 men and 317 women. STATISTICS of English mortality show that during the last thirty years more women have reached the age of seventy five or eighty years than men. The latter suffer more from lung, heart and kidney diseases, which have of late been on the increase in England. RECENT investigations have shown the depth of the ocean between latitudes sixty degrees north and sixty degrees south, to be nearly three miles or 2,500 fathoms. The greatest depth which has been ?[recorded, measured, ?] by sounding is five miles and a quarter, or 4,520 fathoms, and it occurs in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. This ?? ? a thickness of the water ?[level nearly] equal to the loftiest known mountain. |