OBSERVATIONS ON INSANITY, &C. 57 



general habits and haunts resemble those of L. marinus. The young 

 birds are dark brown ; the sexes are similar, but the head and neck 

 of adults are dashed with brown in the winter. 



This part closes with a splendid figure of an adult male, one third 

 less than the natural size, of the Bean Goose, Anser segeium, — Oie 

 vulgaire, Fr. — Oca salvatica, It. — Saat Gans, G. " In the tempe- 

 rate portions of Europe, and especially in the British Islands, the 

 Bean Goose is rather a winter visitor than a permanent resident." 

 Extensive marshes and lakes are its favorite resorts, but it will fre- 

 quently approach the low grounds, feeding on Peas, Beans, and 

 Wheat. In spring they migrate northward to breed. Breeds in 

 marshy spots, laying from eight to twelve white eggs. There is no 

 sexual or seasonal change of plumage worth noting. The Bean 

 Goose is distinguished from the Greylag Goose by the bill of the 

 former being much smaller, and black. The figure in the plate is 

 represented swimming, and is altogether worthy of study. 



OBSERVATIONS ON INSANITY AND LUNATIC 

 ASYLUMS.* 



Mr. Browne professes a most laudable object in publishing these 

 lectures. His desire is — to draw the attention of the public, and 

 especially of those who, by profession or philanthropy, are engaged 

 in performing works of mercy, to the consideration of what has 

 been done, and of what remains to be done, for the relief of the 

 most unfortunate of our fellow-men — of those who mav be almost 

 literally said to " sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being 

 fast bound in misery and iron." His object then is a noble one ; 

 and his pleadings in behalf of the " most unfortunate" abound 

 with a pure pathetic eloquence ; and, we would hope, it will be the 

 prayer of every truly benevolent mind, that they may prove exten- 

 sively influential and permanently successful. 



• Being the Analysis of What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be ; 

 forming the substance of Five Lectures delivered before the Managers of 

 the Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum, by W. A. F. Browne, surgeon and 

 medical superintendent of that institution ; 8vo. Black, Edinburgh ; and 

 Longman, London, 1 837 ; pp. xii. 240. 



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