1 June 1874 – 7 June 1874

Walk with C. and Professor Bain to Hyde Park, iTalk of size of heads. C. said (I think) that his own head was 23I- inches round, one inch more than Burns's. Goethe's head was large, Byron's small. Browning's is small. Whewell's brain was found to be shrunk. The brain of ordinary persons begins to shrink at sixty, of superior men not till seventy, Grote's head was large, but his brain was found to be light. Greatest weight of a brain about 62 oz. C.'s present height, five feet eleven — ' I used to reckon myself six feet.'