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the opinions of phrenologists touching the function of the organ of Wit, 
concerning which a letter of Mr. Rumball’s follows in course. For a sixth 
communication, you havea prominent and faithful representation of the 
fruits of the hostile misrepresentations of Phrenology, made to students of 
medicine by their teachers, from the pen of a Bath physician. This paper 
shows very forcibly that a high-talented and well-educated gentleman, who 
would scorn to assert that black is white, could, nevertheless, be so infatuat- 
ed by prejudice as to denounce that for false what he himself did not know 
tobe untrue. You then come to a spirited exposure ofa set of stupid mis- 
conceptions and silly arguments against the new philosophy of mind, as they 
have been repeated with the loathsome staleness of superannuation, in a 
recent number of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. ast of the miscel- 
lanies, is Mr. Knight’s cases illustrative of the hereditary instinctive pro- 
pensities of animals. For cases and facts, an ingeniously-contrived exercise 
for the skill of young phrenologists ; two interesting letters of Mr. Combe’s, 
on a case of divided consciousness ; Mr. Hodgson’s case of enlargement of 
the organs of Locality, and of pain in those of Form and Size, in a land- 
scape painter ; two notes on the connection of insanity with inequality of 
cerebral development, on the application of Phrenology in the management 
of insane persons ; the phrenological development of Talleyrand; further 
explanations of Mr. Bedford’s case; and Mr. Combe’s facts in exposition 
of the function of that portion of the brain which has been regarded as the 
organ of the faculty that perceives “ the sublime,” are concisely delineated. 
Passing the review department, which is smart and tenny, you arrive at a 
correspondent’s opinion concerning phrenology and materialism, and the 
editor’s conceptions of the signification properly to be attached to the words 
mind, soul, and materialism. The short communications merit a long study : 
they refer to the busts of Queen Victoria, Professor Turner, Charles Rossi, 
and John Reeve, as exhibited at the Royal Academy ; to the cast of Jeremy 
Bentham, wherein the organ of Love of Approbation is enormous; to the 
musical faculties and their manifestations; and to a uniform penny-postage. 
As intelligence, are statements and information relative to numerous phre- 
nological lectures and societies, which appear to be greatly on the increase, 
and in a state of highly encouraging prosperity. 
The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zooloyy, Botany, Mineralo- 
gy, Geology, and Meteorology, conducted by Edward Charlesworth, F.G.S. 
8vo, London, 1838. 
No. XIX, Jury, 1838.—Mr. Blyth furnishes a leading article for this 
number, with his analytic descriptions of birds composing the order Insessores 
Heterogenes ; and, on this occasion, he considers the zoology of the Cylindri- 
roslres,a systematic name proposed by him for the family of rollers, bee- 
eaters, and kingfishers, and of the Angulirostres, as he wishes the family of 
todies and jacamars to be denominated. In an article on the naturalization of 
Dreissena polymorpha, in Great Britain, from the pen of Mr. Strickland, se- 
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