THE

PHRENOLOGICAL

JOURNAL AND MISCELLANY.

VOL. IV.

OCTOBER 1826-NOVEMBER 1827.

"As in the inquiry of Divine truth, the pride of man hath ever inclined to leave the oracles of God's word, and to vanish in the mixture of their own inventions; so, in the self-same manner, in inquisition of nature, they have ever left the oracles of God's works, and adored the deceiving and deformed imagery, which the unequal mirrors of their own minds have represented unto them. Nay, it is a point fit and necessary in the front and beginning of this work, without hesitation or reservation to be professed, that it is no less true in the human kingdom of knowledge, than in God's kingdom of heaven, that no man shall enter into it, except he become first as a little child."-BACON. Of the Interpretation of Nature.

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CONTENTS.

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ARTICLE I.-Letter from George Combe to Francis Jeffrey, Esq.,......1

II. The Anatomy of the Brain, with a General View of

the Nervous System, by G. Spurzheim, M. D., &c.,

translated from an unpublished French MS. by

R. Willis, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons

in London,....................

........83

III.-Letter from Dr A. Combe to the Editor of the Edin-

burgh and Leith Advertiser,.....
............100

IV.-Phrenological Review of "Thoughts on Religion and

other Subjects. By Blaise Pascal. A New Trans-

lation, by the Rev. Edward Craig, A. M., Oxon,

1825." (From a Correspondent.)...................................................................103

V.-Cases of Morbid Change in the Brain,.....................112

VI.-Phrenological Analysis of Ill-temper, Ill-humour, and

Ill-nature, compared with the Analysis of the same

Defects of Character attempted by the New Monthly

Magazine for July, 1826,..........................

VII.-Dinner of the Phrenological Society,.........................................................133

VIII.-Letter from Secretary of Dundee Mechanics' Society

....121

.156

........158

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE I.-On the Influence of Organic Size on Energy of Func-

tion, particularly as applied to the Organs of the

External Senses and Brain. Read to the Phrenolo-

gical Society on 30th November, 1826, by Dr Andrew

Combe,..........

Page

...161

II.-Letter-Dr Caldwell, Professor of the Institutes of

Medicine in the University of Lexington, United

States, to George Lyon, Esq., Secretary of the Phre-

nological Society,............

...........189

III.-Of Wit and the Feeling of the Ludicrous. By Mr Wil-

liam Scott,....................................
.............195

IV.-Second Letter by George Combe to Francis Jeffrey,

Esq., in Answer to his Note on Phrenology, in No

89 of the Edinburgh Review,...

V.-Letter from the Honourable D. G. Hallyburton to

George Lyon, Esq..........................

VI.-Phrenological Experiment. Communicated by Dr El-

liotson of London,.........

.242

.251

..............258

VII. Additional Evidence of the Existence of a Sense of

Equilibrium as a Primitive Mental Power, derived

from the Consistency which obtains between its sup-
posed Functions and the recent Physiological Dis-
coveries of Mr Charles Bell,.....

VIII.-Letter from Sir George S. Mackenzie, Bart. on the

...........284

Perception of Force,......

IX.-Proceedings of the London Phrenological Society,......288

X.-M. Audubon, M. Weiss, Carl. Mar. V. Weber,..........295

XI.-The Infanticide, Ane Nielsdatter. Communicated by

C. Otto, M. D. corresponding Member of the Phre-

nological Society,..................................
...............302

XII.-On the Arrangement of the Phrenological Faculties,

by Dr Hoppe of Copenhagen,...........

.............307

XIII.-Description of an Ashantee Skull,..............................................................309

XIV.-Proceedings of the Phrenological Society,.................311