474 ON THE ORGAN OF MARRIAGE. 



which I have collected amongst animals, have enabled me to fix the situation of 

 the organ in man and animals. Before pointing out upon the brain and skull the 

 place where it is to be found, I must enter into some anatomical details. 



The region of Philoprogenitiveness, as laid down in the works or on the bust 

 which phrenologists have in their hands, occupies too extended a space, and com- 

 prehends two distinct portions of the brain, the one placed at the middle part 

 (No. 11), the other (No. 8) more laterally 

 and outwards. The first appears to me to 

 be the seat of the organ of Philoprogenitive- 

 ness, the other that of attachment for life, or 

 marriage. I have already found this latter 3 

 region well developed in two persons who 

 had very early manifested the desire of be- 

 ing united to each other, and without being 

 induced to do so by other motives than such 

 as leads to four-fifths of marriages. I have 

 found, on the other hand, the same region little developed in persons who had 

 naturally a repugnance for marriage. As a feAv observations will not suffice to 

 establish a certainty, I would entreat phrenologists who have opportunities of 

 making numerous observations to ascertain if new and carefully noted facts might 

 be found to confirm my remarks. 



Except in quadrumanous animals, it is not in the region of the occipital bone 

 that we ought to look for the seat of the organ which leads animals to become 

 united for life. It must be recollected that I maintained this point in Anatomy 

 while describing the occipital region of quadrupeds and birds ; in the former it is 

 entirely filled by the cerebellum ; in the latter it contains the cerebellum, and a 

 great part of the acoustic apparatus. 



It is then in the posterior parietal region that we should look in these two 

 classes for the seat of the organ in question. I have compared with care the 

 skull and brain of a species of bird well known to live in a state of union, as well 

 as those of species which live separate from their female after impregnation. 

 There is a remarkable difference which I have observed between them. The 

 portion of the skull corresponding to the middle part of the posterior border of the 

 cerebral hemisphere (No. 8), is very prominent in all birds which live in a state of 

 union. Such are the following skulls and brains which have presented to me this 

 form of organization very apparent. The Buzzard, the Raven, the great Screech 

 Owl, the Hooded Crow, the Magpie, the Jackdaw. The brain of the Hooded 

 Crow, of the great Screech Owl, and of the Buzzard, will be found represented in 

 my work. We should remark, that in these three species, which live in a state of 



