Show jiray Ji yay braan SAID TO BE INHERITED not merely their quality but their form handed on from parents the inheritance of bodily character both by man and the lower an emals Is too wall known to need corn ment says collier s weekly in the same way we are accustomed to of mental attributes as being more or less hereditary I 1 rom a priori conald we have every reason to expect that the organ which Is the physical basis of the mental bacul ties the brain should show in its structure the influence of heredity it 1 as rarely happened however that any comparative study of the brain structures ot near relatives has been possible A peculiarly fine opportunity tor uch observations was afforded when the brains of three brothers were div en to a competent observer tor exam the brains were those ot willas burton and fred van wormer all of whom were executed in new state all three brains showed marked similarity in general form differing chiefly in the matter ot size some unusual features were present in all three one characteristic in par nicular which Is of great rarity oc burred in all three these facts lend much support to the idea that pe ot brain structure are icher cited as well as peculiarities of face and figure in the case of these three brothers no attempt was made to as the configuration of the brain with tho nature of the crimes of the men |