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Ducrow, the equestrian, his organ
His elo- of Concentrativeness large, 129.
His Comparison Dura mater, 79.

Curran's wit, 255, 259. His organ
of Form moderate, 280.
quence, 324, note.
large, 336.
Čuvier admitted Phrenology to be
consistent with the general principles
of physiology, 39. Great size of his
brain, 76. His organ of Form large,
282. His retentive memory, 368.

Darwin, instance of reason in a
wasp, quoted from, 343, note.

Davy, Sir H., superstitious, 234.
Deaf and dumb dancers, 313.
Dean, murderer, 143.

Death viewed in various lights by
different individuals, 156. Fear of,
assuaged by the sentiment of Hope,
229.

De Bonald, Mons., on the diversity
of philosophical systems, 54, 473.
Deference, feeling of, produced by
Veneration, 212.

Defoe's Individuality and Even-
tuality, 311.

Delille, French poet, his Ideality
large, 240.

Dempsey, murderer, 92, 188, 194.
Desmoulins, his observations on the
relation between the intelligence of
animals, and the depth and number of
their cerebral convolutions, 77.

Destructiveness, one of the propen-
sities, illustrations of, 140, et seq.
Remarks on, 479.

organ of, its situation, 138. Its
effects in combination, 406, 410.
Devil, actions sometimes ascribed
to the temptation of the, 149.
Dewar, Dr., his report of a case of
divided consciousness, 370.

Diploë of the skull, 80.
Discrimination, power of, improved
by practice, 93.

Dissection of an organ does not re-
veal its vital functions, 56.

Dobson, William, painter, portrait
of, 283.

Ear does not recollect or judge of
sounds, 316.

Edmondson, Mr. Richard, on Con-
structiveness and Weight, 180, note;
289.

Edwards, engraver, his Construc
tiveness and Comparison large, 177

337.

Egyptians, ancient, heads of, 435.
Elliotson, Dr., on reason in brutes,
343, note. Quoted, 34. His testimo
ny in favour of Phrenology, 497.

Ellis, Sir W. C., his testimony in
favour of Phrenology, 491.

Engledue, Dr. W. C., his testimony
in favour of Phrenology, 489.

English delight in humour, 162
Their Self-Esteem, Cautiousness, and
Firmness larger than those of the
French, 186, 198, 216.

Engravers, eminent, have large or
gans of Constructiveness and Ïmita-
tion, 177, 262.

E. S., of Dublin, character and head
of, 148.

Europeans, their moral and intellec-
tual superiority, 421. Account of their
heads, 434.

Eustache, a negro, engravings of his
head, 87, 202, 447.

Eventuality, one of the perceptive
faculties, function of, 309. Observa-
tions on, 333.

organ of, its size how discri
minated, 309.

Eyes, their functions, 276.
Me-
mory of forms and colours not depen-
dent on the, 280 Do not perceive
the relations of colours, 289. Large
organ of Language indicated by their
prominence and depression, 322.

Facial angle of Camper described, 58.
Faculties, mental, their plurality,
Dogs, Adhesiveness very strong in, 36. Connexion of, with particular
117; Their Destructiveness, 150; organs, 52. Meaning of the term, 101.
Love of Approbation, 194; Benevo- Dr. Spurzheim's classification of them,
lence, 206. Their Locality supposed 105. Objections to that classification,
to enable them to return home from a 477.
great distance, 303. Seem to have
an idea of numbers, 306, and time, 316.
Dolci, Ludovico, his division of the
head into compartments, 40.

Douglas, Mr. W., painter, his inte-
rest in perspective, 285.

Dramatic authors have large Imita-
tion, 261.

Dreaming explicable only by plura-
lity of cerebral organs, 37. Phrenolo-
gical explanation of, 363.

Modes of their action, 350.
Their mutual influence, 355. Effects
of size in the organs on their manifes-
tation, 400. Their combinations, 404.
Their number, 449. Two kinds of
their affections, 478. FEELINGS, 107.
Propensities, ib. Sentiments, 180. IN-
TELLECTUAL FACULTIES, 264. Ex-
ternal senses, ib. Faculties which pro-
cure knowledge of external objects, and
their qualities and relations, 276. RE-
FLECTIVE FACULTIES, 355.

Farish, Professor, of Cambridge, His Locality large, 300. His great-
his organ of Weight large, 286.
ness. 453.
Farquharson. Dr. F., his testimony
in favour of Phrenology, 493.

Females have a greater endowment
of Philoprogenitiveness than males,
118. Difference between their brains
and those of males, 114. Their Cau-
tiousness and Veneration larger, 198,
214.

Feræ, the organ of Destructiveness
large in the, 150.

Ferguson, Dr. Adam, on the political
freedom of the English, 186.

Mr., case of inability to per-
ceive perspective, 284. His organ of
Size small, 285, 356.

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Mr. Robert, M. P., his testi-
mony in favour of Phrenology, 488.
Ferriar, Dr., cases of injury of the
brain mentioned by, 461, et seq.

Fife, Mr. John, his testimony in fa-
vour of Phrenology, 488.

Firmness, one of the sentiments,
use of, 215. Nature of the faculty, 480.
Fisher, Miss Clara, her large Secre-
tiveness and Love of Approbation,
162, 194. Engraving of her head,
showing large Imitation, 263.

Flechier, Bishop of Nismes, egotism
of, 185.

Flint, Rev. Timothy, his account of
the American Indians, 430, and Ne-
groes, 433.

Flourens' experiments on the cere-
bellum, 109.

Form, one of the perceptive facul-
ties, its vigour not proportionate to the
acuteness of vision, 280. Its effects
in combination, 408.

Forster's Journey from Bengal to
England, quoted, 198.

François, (Cordonnier,) poet, his
Ideality large, 240.

Franklin, Captain, his large head,

400.

Benjamin, his Order, Compari-
son, and Causality large, 308, 337, 345.
Fraser's Language and reflective
organs small, 332, 356.

French, their intellectual character,
228. Why the leaders of fashion, 233.
Resemble the ancient Gauls, 422. Dr.
Vimont's account of their heads, 439.
soldier, engraving of skull of,

217.

Frontal sinus, what, 82. Throws
a difficulty in the way of the observa-
tion of Individuality, 280. Form, ib.
Size, 285; and Locality, 303.
Fry, Mrs., 135.

Gall, Dr.F. J., the founder of Phreno-
logy, 60. Quoted on idiocy, 45. Was
the first to demonstrate the plurality of
cerebral organs, 58, note. Regarded
the mind as a single principle, 103.
Did not admit a distinct organ of Jus-
tice, 204, 223. His views of the fa-
culty of Hope, 227. His theory of the
single impressions perceived by dou-
ble organs of the external senses, 269.
His organ of Form deficient, 281, note.
On the harmony of colours, 292. His
views of Eventuality, 312. Admitted
two organs of Language, 326.
division of men into six classes, 404
On national character and skulls, 423
His merits and discoveries, 475
Names of the faculties adopted by
him, 481.

Garrick's Imitation, 260.

His

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H., Mrs., head of, 92.

Haggart, David, murderer and rob-
ber, 137, 143, 163, 188, 194, 217, 223,
224.

Galileo and his discoveries, how Hall, Sir James, his organ of Weight
treated by his contemporaries, 26. large, 286.

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Harvey and his discoveries, how
treated by his contemporaries, 27, 455.
Haydn's organ of Tune large, 321.
Haydon, Mr., painter, his organs of
Constructiveness, Colouring, and Cau-
sality large, 177, 291, 345, 409.

Hazlitt's Wonder and Ideality large,
234, 248.

Heaman, murderer, 143.
Helvetius, his erroneous theory, that
man owes his arts to the structure of
his hands, 264.

Henri Quatre, his Benevolence
large, 201. His forehead, 333. His
Comparison large, 337.

Herschel, Sir W., his Constructive-
ness large, 177.

Sir John, on the cause of defi-
ciency in the power of distinguishing
colours, 292. On the difference of the
talents for mathematical and general
reasoning, 301.

Hindoos have small brains, 47.
Their ears high, 88. Engraving of
skull of one, 424. Their sentiments
of truth weak, 224. Their language
figurative, 335. Resemblance of their
skulls to each other, 424.

Hirschfeld, Dr. S. E., his testimony
in favour of Phrenology, 493.

Hobbes denied the existence of the
sentiment of Benevolence, 208, and of
the moral sense, 217, 226.

Home, Sir Everard, observations
on his proposed mode of investigating
the functions of the brain, 470.

Homer's Ideality represented large,
241. Sometimes overloads his de-
scriptions with similes, 397. Sup-
posed origin of his genius, 403.

Hood's case of a patient who lost
the use of language, 329, 356. His tes-
timony in favour of Phrenology, 486.
Hope, organ of, its situation, 227.
Remarks on, 480.

Hoppe, Dr., case of disease of the
organ of Time reported by, 315.

Howard, John, 135.

Humboldt, brother of the traveller,
his large organs of Number, Order,
and Language, 305, 308, 332.

Hume, David, displays great Caus-
ality, 345.

Mr. Joseph, his large head and
powerful mind, 401.

Hunter, Mr. John, anatomist, dis
ease of his organ of Weight, 288.

Dr. Robert, his testimony in
favour of Phrenology, 499.

Hussey, murderer, 143.
Hutcheson, Dr., maintained the ex-
istence of a moral sense, 219.

Ideality, one of the sentiments, 239.
Considered with reference to Taste,
398. Remark on, 480.

Idiocy, partial, explicable only by a
plurality of cerebral organs, 37. A
very small brain always accompanied
by idiocy, 45. Condition of the con-
volutions in idiocy, 78. Number of
idiots in different countries, 444. Idiot
who became intelligent in consequence
of a wound on the head, 476.

Imitation, faculty of, 260. Scems
to be a mere propensity, 480.

Individuality, one of the intellectual
faculties, its functions, 277. Whether
a perceptive faculty, 480.

Inglis, Dr. James, his testimony in
favour of Phrenology, 489.

Inhabitiveness, organ of, according
to Dr. Spurzheim, 120. •

Insanity, state of the convolutions
in, 73. Čase of insanity on one side
of the head, 379. Sometimes not
easily distinguishable from moral de-
pravity, 148. Some of the phenomena
of, explained, 353. Insanity of the in-
tellectual faculties, 358.

Irving, Rev. Edward, his Wonder
and Self-Esteem large, 236.
Italians, delight in humour, 162.

Jardine, Mr., engineer, his organ of
Weight large, 286.

Jeffrey, Lord, part of a review of
Lord Byron's Tragedies assigned to,
248.

Jervis, Jacob, his Benevolence large,

202.

Joan of Arc, appearance of St. Mi-
chael to, 230.

John, St., represented with large
Veneration and Benevolence, 210.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, fond of unu.
sual words and expressions, 234. His
large head and energy of character, 349.

Joseph, Mr. Samuel, sculptor, his
Constructiveness and Imitation large,
177, 262.

Jupiter's forehead represented pro-
minent by ancient artists, 291.

Kames, Lord, on appetite for hunt-
ing, 140. Admits Acquisitiveness to
be a primitive propensity, 164. Ad-
mits a moral sense, 219. On the no-
tion of time, 315. Admits twenty of
the phrenological faculties, 449.

Kemble, John, 99, 121.
King, Dr., case of Secretiveness
quoted from, 160.

Knox, Vicesimus, on hunting, 140.

La Fontaine's head large, 399.
Language, faculty of, 322. Too ex-
clusively cultivated in ordinary educa-
tion, 325.

organ of, history of its discove-
ry, 60. Its size, how indicated, 322.
Le Sage's Individuality and Even-
tuality, 311.

Leslie, Prof., his organ of Weight
large, 286.

Lindsay, David, his style verbose,

325.

Linn, parricide, head of, 108, 135,
143, 163.

Locality, one of the perceptive facul-
ties, 298.

Locke, on the slow progress of new
opinions, 25, 453. Engraving of his
head, showing Ideality small, 244. On
ideas, 269. His Causality large, 341.
Lockey, murderer, 143.

Logan, Mr., of Leith, his analogical
method of reasoning, 336.

Louis XI., Secretiveness of, 159.
Love of Approbation distinguished
from Self-Esteem, 189, 193. Distin-
guished from Benevolence, 201. Its
effects in combination, 407. Remarks

on, 479.

Lungs, large, favourable to cerebral
activity, 319, note.

M., Rev. Mr., 92, 108, 135, 194, 223.
Mabillon's talents brightened by an
injury of the head, 476.

Macdonald, Lawrence, sculptor, 410.
Macinnes, Mary, murderess, 131,
137, 143, 199.

Mackenzie, Sir G. S., on the pro-
pensity to fight, 138. On relative po-
sition, 299. On the qualifications of
a teacher, 311. His work on Taste,
396.

Mackintosh, Sir James, his account
of conscience, 219.

Dr. John, his testimony in
favour of Phrenology, 503.
Maclachlan, his large organ of
Weight, 286.

Maclaren, Mr. Charles, his testimo-
ny in favour of Phrenology, 500.
Macnish, Mr. Robert, on spectral il-
lusions, 361. His testimony in favour
of Phrenology, 499.

Malte-Brun's account of the races
which inhabit France, 447.

Marryat, Captain, his Eventuality
large, 310.

Marsh, Dr. Henry, his testimony in
favour of Phrenology, 504.

Martell, Mr. George, his testimony
in favour of Phrenology, 492.

Materialism, objection that Phreno-
logy leads to, considered, 455.
Matthews, comedian, 261, 279.
Maxwell, robber, 412.

Measurements of heads and skulls,
tables of, 94, 436.

Melancthon, head of, 86, 135, 341,

406.

Memory, analysis of, 367. Mr.
Hewett Watson on the peculiarities of
memory, 271.

Metaphysicians neglected organiza
tion, or supposed the mind to be ma
terial, 52.

Milne, Mr. James, Dr. Spurzheim's
visit to his workship, 176. His ina-
bility to distinguish colours, 290.

Mind known only in connexion with
body, 28, 34, 52. Whether simple or
an aggregate of separate powers, 101.
Question as to its materiality or imma-
teriality, 455.

Mitchell, murderer, 109.
Monkeys, their brains, 96. Have
large Philoprogenitiveness and Love
of Approbation, 112, 194.

Monro primus, on the relation be.
tween power of the external senses
and size of their organs, 44.

Moore quoted, 130. His Compari-
son, 336, 338. Engraving of his fore-
head, 308. His style, 323. Bad taste
of some of his early verses, 397.

Mountfort, Mrs., murderess, case of,

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Nisbet, murderer, 143.

Number, one of the perceptive fa-
culties, situation and history of the
discovery of its organ, 303-4. Sup-
posed by Gall to be necessary to musi-
cal composers, 317.

Objections to Phrenology considered
-That the frontal sinus renders it im-
possible to ascertain the cerebral de-
velopement, 83; that there are clever
men with retreating foreheads, 332;
that the science is not new, 448.

Order, faculty of, 306. Remarks
on, 480.

Quickly, Mrs., an illustration of In.
dividuality and Eventuality, 312.

Rammohun Roy, head of, 46, 223,
234, 332, 399.

Rapnael's skull, 175, note. His re-
presentation of Christ's head, 210.
Character of his works compared with
his head, 408.

Reid, Dr. Thomas, maintains the
existence of the moral sense, 219.
His answer to Berkeley's argument
about evidence of existence, 347.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, on the im-
provement of the power of discri-
mination by practice, 93. His impres
sions on seeing Raphael's pictures,
409.

471.

Organs, cerebral, their plurality de-
monstrated, 36, 40. The functions of,
not discoverable by dissection, 56.
Definition of the term, 70. Length Rolando's experiments on the brains
and breadth of, how ascertained, 88. of the lower animals unsatisfactory,
The largest most prone to action, 100,
354. Talent of recollecting their si-
tuation, 300. Their arrangement in
groups, 383. Effects of their size and
activity on the manifestation of the
faculties, 399. Their difference of
appearance discoverable, 450. Their
plurality explains phenomena other-
wise unaccountable, 396, 469.

Otto, Dr., his testimony in favour of
Phrenology, 494.

Owen, Mr., of New Lanark, denies
the existence of the faculty of Acqui-
sitiveness, 169.

Paley denied the existence of the
moral sense, 219, 227.

Perception is the function of the
brain, not of the external organs of the
senses, or the nerves, 266. Is the low-
est degree of activity of the intellec-
tual faculties, 356.

Perceptive faculties, 276. Each
probably adapted to the natural laws
of its objects, 342, note. Modes of
their action, 355.

Philoprogenitiveness, one of the pro-
pensities, 111, 479.

Pit, engraving of his head, 308.
Playfair, Prof., on the slow progress
of new opinions, 25. His logical mode
of reasoning, 336.

Poets have successfully observed
human nature, 55.

Pope, secretive character of, 160.
His idea of Hope producing expecta-
tion of a future state, 229.

Pratt, Miss, in The Inheritance, a
personification of Individuality, 278,

374

Prichard, Dr., on the organs of the
passions, 57.

Propensities, remarks on the dis-
tinction between the sentiments and
the, 478

Rousseau, J. J., denies the social
nature of man, 133. His description
of the French character, 441.

Sandwich Islanders, account of their
character and heads, 434.

Savages, their compression of the
infant head, 426.

Scotch head and character, 437.
Great number of idiots in Scotland,
444.

Scott, Sir Walter, his description
of King Robert Bruce's vengeance on
Cormac Doil, 140. On supernatural
personages, 232.

Secretiveness, one of the propensi-
ties, its nature and objects, 158. Re-
marks on, 479.

Self-Esteem, one of the sentiments,
181. Its effects in combination, 407.
Remarks on, 479

Senses, external, their power in pro-
portion to the size of their organs, 43,
et seq. Their functions, 264. Do not
form ideas, 266, 325.

Sentiments, modes of their action,
350. Remarks on the distinction be-
tween them and the propensities, 478.

Shakspeare quoted, 158, 160, 204,
241, 337. Origin of his genius, 403.

Sheridan, remarks on his wit, 255
Engraving of his forehead, 308.

Sight, sense of, acute in proportion
to the size of its organs, 44. Erroneous
theory of its rectification by touch, 267
Does not acquire its functions from
touch or habit, 274.

Simpson, Mr. James, on the sense
of resistance, 271. His testimony is
favour of Phrenology, 492.

Size of an organ, cæteris paribus,
measure of power in its function, 41,
et seq. Circumstances which modify
the effects of, 48, 386. How ascer

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