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gas asatest. M. Fechner then offers a memoir in justification of the con- 
tact theory of galvanism, Mr. Graves submits a new and general solution 
of cubic equations; and Professor Graham adduces a note on the constitu- 
tion of salts. At the Royal Society, remarks on the theory of the dispersion 
of light as connected with polarization, were read by Professor Powell ; as 
was a communication of Mr. Rigg’s, forming an experimental inquiry into 
the influence of nitrogen on the growth of plants; and a brief notice of Mr. 
Bell’s paper on rotatory motion, stand for proceedings of that illustrious 
institution. These are followed by abstracts of Mr. Bowman’s notes on a 
small patch of Silurian rocks on the west of Abergell; Mr. Sowerby’s list of 
fossils, including the species found in the Ludlow rocks; Mr. Malcolmson’s 
notice, on the occurrence of wealden strata near Elgin, on the remains of 
fishes in the old red sandstone of that neighbourhood, and on raised beaches 
along the adjacent coast; Mr. Austen’s remarks on the origin of the lime- 
stones of Devonshire ; Dr. Black’s description of the fossil stem of a tree 
recently discovered near Bolton-le-Moor; Mr. Williamson’s communication 
on the distribution of organic remains in part of the oolitic series on the 
Yorkshire coast ; and Mr. Smee’s paper on the state in which animal matter 
is usually found in fossils, appear as proceedings of the Geological Society. 
Under the section for intelligence and miscellanies, you find Professor Airy’s 
correction of errors in the nomenclature of certain stars in Groombridge’s 
catalogue ; M. Kuhlman’s remarks and facts on the chemical re-actions of 
water; M. Peligot’s analytical observations on the sugars, and a note on 
succesterin ; and, with the usual meteorological tables, the September com=- 
pletes its valuable contributions to philosophy and the sciences. 
The Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science ; 8vo, London and 
Edinburgh, 1838. 
No. LVII.—Volume eleventh of the journal is completed by this quar- 
ter’s publication, which comprises eight miscellaneous papers, eight articles 
of cases and facts, seven analytical or critical reviews, notes on opinions, 
short communications and intelligence—forming, altogether, a comprehensive 
and instructive miscellany, abundantly well calculated to promote the views 
of unprejudiced inquirers, whose object is to ascertain and diffuse the prin- 
ciples of a true mental philosophy. First, as the leading communication, 
stand Dr. Combe’s remarks on Dr. Pritchard’s third attack on Phrenology, 
in his treatise oninsanity. This article of Dr. C.’s constitutes a most beau- 
tiful and admirable example of candid, philosophical discussion ; and, with 
the greatest ease imaginable, he convicts Dr. P. of an inveterate unfairness, 
as amazing as it is lamentable, the result of a prejudice little less culpable 
than dishonesty. Mr. Cargill comes next, with an excellent inductive 
sketch founded on facts concerning the organs of Inhabitiveness and Concen- 
trativeness, with an examination of the opinions regarding the functions of 
that part of the brain which corresponds to the space marked No. iii. on the 
phrenological busts. After this, stand Mr. Hancock’s remarks on the func- 
tion of the organ called Concentrativeness, with an amusingly edifying and 
candid note by the editor, who animadyerts freely, in the next article, on 
