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chalk-flints; Mr. Taylor on the quicksilver ores of San Onofré in Mexico; 
Mr. Edmonds on the obsidian of Real del Monté; Mr. Murchison on the 
Oar’s Rock as an indication of the protrusion of strata at that point; Dr. 
Buckland on the discovery of fossil fishes in the Bagshot-sands, and of a fossil 
wing of a neuropterous insect in the Stonefield-slate ; and Mr. Stokes on 
some species of Orthocerata, and certain considerations respecting the rela- 
tions of the shells to the animals to which they belonged. The twenty-fifth 
annual report of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall comes next, 
and then the miscellanies, extracted chiefly from the French and German 
journals. From the former, we have notes on the tungstate of tungsten and 
potash, on the stearopten of turpentine, on the pectates of silver, of lead, and 
of copper: from the latter are derived articles bearing the titles—réagent 
for the detection of sulphurous acid in the hydrochloric acid of commerce ; 
processes for preparing lithia; new double salt of zinc and potassium; ré- 
agent for nitric acid and nitrogen; formate of soda as a reducing substance 
for arsenic; the transparency of carbon; preparation of arseniuretted hydro- 
gen. Analyses of serum of blood drawn from a diabetic patient, and of the 
liquor amnii, are selected from the Guy’s Hospital Reports, recently pub- 
lished; and, with meteorological observations, the present number is con- 
cluded. 
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The Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science ; 8vo, London and 
Edinburgh, 1838. ' 
No. LVIII.—For the first articles of this Number, are strictures on anti- 
phrenology in two letters to Macvey Napier, Esq. and P. M. Roget, M.D, 
being an exposure of the article called “ phrenology” recently published in 
the Encyclopedia Britannica. The first of these spirited and beautifully 
logical epistles exhibits “Macvey Napier, Esquire,” as a crouching drone 
greatly inclined to unfairness and sycophancy : it is impossible to peruse the 
second, without experiencing amazement at the extraordinary ignorance and 
flagrant dishonesty manifested in Dr. Roget’s pseudologies concerning the 
new science of mind; the evidences here adduced in demonstration of 
their profligacy, are complete. Next in course to these most instructive 
communications, comes an account of the establishment of a “ Phrenological 
Association,” based on the general resolution that “phrenology being a 
highly useful and important branch of philosophy, it is desirable to obtain 
for it, in the public mind, as much respect and consideration as possible :” 
the report includes very judicious practical remarks on the objects and eco- 
nomy of philosophical institutions. As a fourth contribution, you have a 
powerful and successful essay to show that phrenology is supported by scien - 
tific men; and this is appropriately followed by a letter from a Bohemian 
count representing the progress of phrenology in Germany. Among the 
“ eases and facts,” the first is a communication from Mr. Combe on the size 
of Sir Walter Scott’s brain, and the phrenological development indicated by 
his bust: here, the facts evince to a demonstration that Scott’s “ head was 
really large ;” that it was very large in the lower and middle regions of the 
forehead; that the lower region of the hind head was large ; that the coro- 
