Supposed New Earth. — Cranlology. 77 



mass of water, and keep it for an indefinite length of time 

 in the state of ice. In the space of an hour he has, on a 

 small scale, formed a cake of ice 6 inches in diameter, and 

 three quarters of an inch thick. With very little trouble 

 he can produce a permanent cold of 90 degrees of Fahreu- 

 .heit below the temperature of the air, and might easily push 

 it to 100 or even 110. The professor is now engaged in 

 prosecuting these fruitful researches, and will soon, we 

 hope, favour the public with an account of his process, and 

 of the chief results. 



SUPPOSED NKW EARTH. 



M. Vinterl, of Pest in Hungary, has lately sent to the 

 French Institute several specimens of an earth which he 

 conceived to he new, and to which he gave the name of 

 Andronia. A committee of the Institute, consisting of 

 Messrs. Fourcroy, Guyton Morvcau, Berthollet, and Vau- 

 quelin, have analysed this substance, and have determined 

 that it is merely a compound of silex, lime, alumine, potash, 

 and iron; 



ckaniology. 



The following observations have been published in the 

 foreign journals on the system of craniology by M. Gall. 



1. The Italian poet Dolce, who died in 1568, in his dia- 

 logue on the means of preserving and strengthening the 

 memory, alludes to a head which is represented at page 8 

 of the Venice editions of 1562 and 1566, the cranium of 

 which is divided and figured according to M. Gall's sy- 

 stem ; and under this wood-cut we read the following in- 

 scription: " In questa tu vedi ove e il senso commune, 

 ove la fantasia, la cogitativa, la imaginativa, la stimulativa, 

 la memorativa : ed anco 1'odorato e il gusto. " 



2. The grand chancellor of Denmark, Schumacher, 

 count Griffenfield, who died in 1699, must have practised 

 cranioscopy with success, if we may credit M. Wedel 

 Simonson, the author of a dissertation read before the me- 

 dical society of Copenhagen. The same gentleman (M. 

 Schumacher) maintained a medical disputation in 1650, 

 De nervis ; Bartholin being then president of the above so- 

 ciety. 



3. Frenair (a French author) says in his biography or 

 Laurence Sterne, who died in 1768, and which was pre- 

 fixed to the French translation of Sterne's works, iC that an 

 eminent surgeon had dissected the brain of Laurjnce 

 Sterne, under the persuasion that he would find something 

 extraordinary in its configuration." 



4. , Swedenborg, wh6 diecf in 1774, taught that good o r 



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