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this creature of the imagination is with- 
-out the authority of facts. 
[To be concluded in the Supplementary 
Number. | 
*," We have also to announce, that we 
have received, from our learned correspon- 
dent Dr. Rosertson, of Bouloyne-sur-Mer, 
another valuable communication, on this 
subject, on the opposite side of the ques- 
tion ; which will also appear in the Supple- 
ment; and, with some other articles of high 
and essential value, too long for our regular 
numbers, will, we trust, contribute to ren- 
der that Supplement, at once, the most 
valuable and most interesting portion of 
the volume. 
—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
~Srr:— 
ILL you allow, to a quondam 
correspondent, a small niche for 
an observation or two, on the new 
science of Craniology, or Phrenology, as 
Dr. SpurzHem™, and a few others, now 
term it? Iam induced to request this 
favour, because, although much ‘has 
been written and published on the sub- 
ject, it does not appear to me that the 
point which at present deserves the 
most attention has been made suffi- 
ciently prominent : it shall be my object, 
in the present communication, to en- 
deavour to do so. 
Having latterly paid some attention 
to this science, I trust the craniologists 
will pardon me if I say, that they seem 
to have been much too eager to theorize 
and systematize ; that the facts already 
observed and recorded seem, by far, too 
few to warrant us in mapping out the 
skull as the craniologists have done. 
‘But there is, notwithstanding, one fact 
asserted by those gentlemen, which, if 
subsequent and more extensive obser- 
vation shall confirm, will enable us to 
‘attain some precision in this novel 
science. The asserted fact to which I 
allude is, that the INTELLECTUAL POw- 
ERS RESIDE IN THE FORE PART, AND THE 
ANIMAL POWERS“IN THE BACK PART OF 
THE skULL ;~ that, when the hinder por- 
tion of the skull exceeds or only equals in 
quantity the front or intellectual portion, 
the individual possesses so much of the 
mere animal, that the front portion is not 
sufficient to keep the animal in check ;— 
that, on the contrary, when the greater 
portion of the brain is before, more or 
less predominating intellectuality will be 
found, and the animal powers be held in 
proper subjection. A high and broad 
forehead is, of course, a strong indication 
of intellectuality—a low and receding 
one, the reverse. 
4 
7 , a -, 
Craniology. 
[July t, 
The quality and quantity of the brain, 
they say, are to be judged of by obsery- 
ing the situation of the orifice of the ear, 
and the size of the skull before and be- 
hind. 
In persons of high intellectuality, this 
orifice will be found from one to two 
inches nearer to the back part of the 
head than it isto the front. In judg- 
ing, however, of the qualities of a skull 
—of the range of intellect of any given 
person, this is not all: it is necessary to 
note whether there be great or little 
distance between the orifice of the ear 
and the crown of the head; and, also, 
whether the skull be wide or narrow, 
as well before as behind. A careful 
attention to these several indications— 
indications, it must be admitted, which 
every one may readily apprehend—will, 
the craniologists say, always give us a 
general outline of the character of every. 
man. 
Here then, it appears to me, for the 
present, our observations on the study of 
Craniology ought to be emphatically 
directed. If it shall be found that the 
intellectual portion of the brain is always 
in front, and also that the quantity of 
intellect is in proportion to the quan- 
tity of brain ; and, if, on the contrary, 
it shall also be found that the animal 
propensities exist always in the back 
part of the skull, and that these are in 
greatest force, in proportion to the size 
also of that part of the brain—data of 
infinite importance will be obtained. It 
will be afterwards desirable to examine, 
and, if possible, to determine, of what 
particulars these general indications 
consist: and I think there is no impro- 
bability in the supposition, that some 
organs of particular powers may also 
be discovered; but I suspect some of 
the mapping of our phrenologists will 
be found more poetical than accordant 
with fact. 
In conclusion, although I am not 
completely convinced that the doctrine 
here stated will be found invariably cor- 
rect when applied to every human skull, 
Tam, nevertheless, decidedly of opinion, 
that it will be found correct in very many 
instances ; and I am, however, disposed 
to think, that more accurate and ex- 
tended observation will confirmit. lam, 
your’s, Jas. JENNINGS. 
Metropolitan Literary Institution, 
June 7th 1825. ' 
P.S. Whilst on the subject of Cra- 
niology, I may just add, that an inge- 
nious epitome of the science, entitled a. 
* Manual of Craniology,” price only a 
: shilling, 
