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Delivered at St. George's Hall, Canterbury, on Tuesday, 

 December 8th, 1868, by 



WILLIAM M. ORD, Esq., M.B., &c., 



OF LONDON, 



In this lecture it was proposed to pass in review some 

 few kinds of Tongues, regarding them as performing cer- 

 tain duties and as gifted accordingly. Beginning with the 

 Human Tongue, the gifts of that organ were enumerated. 

 It was found to be possessed, first, of great range of mo- 

 bility, allowing of change in the shape of the whole mass 

 on the one hand, and of the surface in large or in exceed- 

 ingly small tracts on the other. This mobility had an 

 evident relation to the complete application of the surface 

 of the Tongue to the irregular surfaces of bodies brought 

 into contact with it, whereby the Tongue might, so to 

 epeak, be enabled to take momentary casts of such bodies. 

 Ministering also to the same purpose, the Tongue was 

 found possessed of the properties of softness and supple- 

 ness, of a moist surface, and of remarkable elasticity or 

 power of resuming its original form ; second, of the sense 

 of touch ; and third, of the sense of taste. The condi- 

 tions upon which these endowments depended were found, 

 first, in the arrangement of the muscular fibres of the 



