of the refutation. Witness the midnight oil wasted in the elaborate compositions of our opponents, at least of one opponent. Why not rather pay a visit to the Phrenological Museum? With unexampled fairness we disclose all our secrets to the inspection of friends and foes. Our doors are open every Saturday forenoon, and we not only permit, but invite every one to examine and judge for himself. In that museum there are the actual skulls, or casts of the heads of individuals of almost every nation in the world, (and the national characters of the Hindoos and Europeans, e. g. are sufficiently marked,) and of individuals of every possible variety of character. We have casts of the heads of authors, poets, actors, statesmen, clergymen, painters, &c. &c., besides those of more than fifty criminals, whose characters have been sifted before judges and juries, by witnesses on oath, cross-examined by counsel learned in the law. Here, if any where, we are indeed vulnerable,-assail our facts and we are undone. Phrenology admits of no exceptions. A single instance of such an individual as Ann Ormerod, manifesting decided musical talent, will do far more to cut up Phrenology, root and branch, than the gentle epithets which erst were bestowed on its advocates of "quacks, empirics, impostors, hypo"crites, German illuminati, crazy sciolists, abortions, fools, "frenzied and infernal idiots."

But remember,-to adopt the beautiful quotation from Lord Bacon which now adorns the title-page of the Phrenological Journal," 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 ora"cles of God's works, and adored the deceiving and deformed ima66 gery, which the unequal mirrors of their own minds have repres "sented 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 this 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."

I am, &c.

L.

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ARTICLE X.

1. THE LONDON PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

OFFICERS AND COUNCIL.

PRESIDENT.-John Elliotson, M. D.

VICE PRESIDENTS.-C. A. Tulk, Esq. M. P.; Robert Maugham, Esq.; John G. Teed, Esq.; J. G. Sedgwick, Esq.

SECRETARY.-Joseph Moore, M. D.

TREASURER.-Mr James De Ville.

COUNCIL-G. Murray Paterson, M. D.; George Fisk, Esq.; James Florance, Esq.; John Gray, Esq.; George Lewis, Esq.; James Macdonnell, M. D.; Alexander Black, Esq.; John Flint South, Esq.; Eugene Nugent, Esq.; Charles Poole, Esq.; George Rudall, Esq.; W. Herman Vowler, Esq.

Ordinary Members, with Date of Admission.

March 31, 1824.-John Elliotson, M. D. Physician to St Thomas's Hospital; George Murray Paterson, M. D. ; James De Ville; William De Ville; Frederick Glover; George Fisk; Joseph Moore, M. D.; John Flint South, Surgeon.

April 3.-Edward Davey, Surgeon; Charles William Moore, Surgeon; William Herman Vowler.

April 10.-Robert Maugham, Solicitor; Thomas Gandy. April 17-Julian Hibbert; Frank Wood, Surgeon; John Gray; Eugene Nugent; Charles Smith.

May 4-Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq. M. P.; John Godfrey Teed, Esq. Barrister at Law; George Lewis, En

graver.

June 19.-James Macdonnell, M. D. Welbeck Street; Thomas Wakeley, Surgeon; Edmund Wylie, Surgeon.

July 3.-James Sedgwick, Esq. Somerset House; Edward J. Lance, Lewisham; George Herbert Rodwell, Adelphi ; George Rudall, Berner's Street; James Florance, Solicitor, Finsbury Square.

November 6.-John Marshall, Esq. Hallstead, Cumber

land.

November 20.-Edward Speer, Esq. New Inn.

January 15, 1825.-Charles Poole, Esq. South Audley Street; Edward William Burton, Solicitor; Alexander Black, Tavistock Street.

February 5.-William Henry Crook, Lisson Grove.

February 19.-James Lambert, Apothecary to the Middlesex Hospital; Richard Light.

March 5.

Cocks, Surgeon; John Isaac Hawkins;

Walter Macgregor Logan.

March 18.-Captain D. Ross, R. N.

March 30.-Emerson Dawson; Edward Astbury Turley. April 8.-John Burton, Solicitor.

April 22.-Charles Wheatstone; Samuel Highley; Thomas Alcock, Surgeon; Joseph Hayes, Surgeon; David Pollock, Esq. Barrister at Law; Sir James Gardiner, Bart.; William Lance; De Viande.

May 19.-Thomas Goyder, Strand.

June 5.-William Turner Comber; Camberwell; S. C. Humfrey, Barrister at Law, Temple.

June 16.-John Jarman Dovey.

HONORARY MEMBERS.

May 15, 1824.-François Joseph Gall, M.D., Paris; John Gaspar Spurzheim, M. D., Paris; George Combe, Esq. W.S., Edinburgh.

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.

May 4, 1824.-The Baron Theotoky, President of the

Ionian Isles; Edward Moore, Esq., Surgeon to the Plymouth Dispensary for Diseases of the Eye.

July 3.-Llewelyn Jones, M.D., Chester.

November 6-Alexander Rippingill, Bristol; Edward Rippingill, Bristol.

November 20.--Otto, M.D., Copenhagen; Edward Brown, M.D., Calcutta ; Stephenson, M.D., New York; John Fuge, Esq., Surgeon, Plymouth; Matthew Allen, M.D., Loughton, Essex.

February 5, 1825.—John Huxham, St Thomas', Exeter; William Drew, Exeter.

March 18.-John Butter, M.D., F.R.S., Physician to the Dispensary of Diseases of the Eye; Plymouth; - Forster, M.D., East Grinstead, Sussex,

March 30.-Samuel White, Esq., Surgeon, Bath.

May 15-John Harris, Esq., Trinity College, Cambridge

II. PROCEEDINGS OF THE LONDON PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

November 3, 1825.—THE members of this Society resumed their meetings this day; and, from the zeal which appears to animate each individual connected with it, there is every reason to expect that the business of the Society will be conduced with a spirit commensurate with its importance. Dr Elliotson read an introductory essay "On the Cultivation of Phrenology."

Mr De Ville reported the facts of two cases, in which, together with a deficient development of the organ of Tune, musical sounds produced very acute painful mental emotions.

Dr Elliotson read a communication from Dr G. M. Paterson, announcinthe formation of a Phrenological Society at Calcutta, under most favourable auspices. Mr Walter

George James, of West Bromwich, was elected a corresponding member of the Society.

November 17, 1825.-Dr Moore read an essay, offering a Comparative View between Phrenology as a System of Philosophy of the Human Mind, and the Metaphysical Systems hitherto promulgated.

December 1st, 1825.-Mr De Ville exhibited a number of casts illustrative of the organ of Tune, both with regard to its moderate and excessive development. Each cast was accompanied by its appropriate history.

Mr De Ville related the circumstances connected with the case of a lady residing in Paris, in whom the organ of Acquisitiveness was largely developed, which was characterized by a morbid sensibility of the part.

Dr Moore furnished a similar instance, with respect to the organ of Self-esteem, in a maniac at St Luke's Hospital. In both these cases, external contact occasioned acute pain.

Mr Lance adduced several instances in which high excitement of organs was indicated by inordinate heat on the part externally.

Richard Grainger, Esq. Surgeon, and J. Cole, Esq. Surgeon, were elected ordinary members.

"On

December 15, 1825-Mr Maugham read an Essay the Importance of the Principles of Phrenology as applicable to the Purposes of Education." J. Churcher, Esq., C. Hedgeland, Esq. architect, H. Holm, Esq., Surgeon, W. Holland, Esq., W. Wells, Esq., John Sedgwick, Esq., Jacob Perkins, Esq., W. W. Smart, Esq., Surgeon, were elected ordinary members.

January 5, 1826.-Mr De Ville produced the Phrenological development of two children, (Mary Manning and Sarah Ann Manning,) at present exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, as musical prodigies, and contrasted their organic configuration with that of the Infant Lyra, (Isabella Rudkin.)

Mr De Ville stated, that another case of morbid sensibility had fallen under his notice. The party, the subject of this