963 | 1080 | 117
12. | 3 8 | 803 | 1002 | 199
13. | 3 1 | 697 | 1080 | 383
14. | .. | 995 | 1126 | 131
15. | 7 0 | 1065 | 1265 | 200
16. | 7 13 | 1153 | 1265 | 112
17. | .. | 1037 | 1255 | 218
18. | 7 4 | 1208 | 1265 | 57
19. | .. | 1232 | 1326 | 94
20. | .. | 1124 | 1311 | 187
21. | 6 14 | 1131 | 1191 | 60
22. | 7 4 | 1136 | 1268 | 132
----------+-------------+------------+-----------------+-----------
23. | 7 0 | 1315 | |
24. | 7 0 | 1455 | |
----------+-------------+------------+-----------------+-----------

----+-----------------------------------
| VII.
|
| Showing how much per cent.
| the Brain, by calculation,
| according to the length of the
| Skull, is too light or too heavy,
| relatively to the Brain of the
| Wild Rabbit No. 1.
----+-----------------------------------
1. |
2. |
3. | ( [2 per cent. too heavy in
| ( comparison with No. 1.]
4. |
5. | 4 per cent. too light.
6. | 3 " "
7. | 3 " too heavy.
8. | 2 " "
9. | 16 " too light.
10. | 9 " "
|
Av. | 7 " "
|
11. | 12 " "
12. | 24 " "
13. | 54 " "
14. | 13 " "
15. | 18 " "
16. | 9 " "
17. | 21 " "
18. | 4 " "
19. | 7 " "
20. | 16 " "
21. | 5 " "
22. | 11 " "
----+-----------------------------------
23. |
24. |
----+-----------------------------------

{128}

I have previously remarked that, if we had possessed many domestic
rabbits of the same average size with the wild rabbit, it would have
been easy to compare the capacity of their skulls. Now the Himalayan,
Moscow, and Angora rabbits (Nos. 11, 12, 13 of Table) are only a little
larger in body, and have skulls only a little longer, than the wild
anim