o/" Dr. Gall, of Vienna. 133 



wlrcn it afts produdlively it rletermines the combinations of 

 new localities. 



It is this organ which direfts the blood-hoimd, in which it 

 is very llriking : it exifts in all the birds of palTagc : it invites 

 them to change their place of refidence ; to undertake diftant 

 voyages; and to find again their former place of habitation : 

 the (tork and fwallow are provided with' it in an eminent de- 

 gree, and thefe are the animals which migrate to the greatclt 

 diftance from our countries. Men furniiiieJ with it are ob- 

 ferved to have a (Irong remembrance of places, and a defire 

 for travelling : it is therefore always found in able landfkip 

 painters. 



" A general who arranges his army, and who with one 

 look muft obfcrve all the localities of the country which it 

 occupies, cannot difpcnfe with this organ.". Of this, the 

 great Frederick was a ftriking example. At an advanced 

 age this organ is one of thofe which gradually dccreafe : it is 

 known alfo that memory of every kind, and imagination, are 

 loft as a man grows old : the frontal finuses arc tlicn increafcd 

 interiorly; the aftion of the brain no longer oppofes fo much 

 refiftance to their expanfion. 



17. Organ of the Senfe of Fa£ls (Senfus Ecrum), 



The fenfe of fadls has its corrcfponding organ in the infe- 

 rior and anterior part, of the frontal .bone, in the middle of 

 and below the preceding: it afts ])rodu6lively and reproduc- 

 tivcly, and in the latter cafe it fupplies a remembrance of 

 fa As and of things. 



It is an organ very necellliry for education and indruftion, 

 which abfolulely require that one fliould remember things 

 paft : in old age it is fubjeft to the fame'changes as the pre- 

 ceding. 



Among animals the elephant is particularly diftinguiilied 

 by the expanfion of this organ. This animal remembers, 

 with the greatcft. accuracy, every. circuiuftance and fail which 

 has any relation to it. 



Among men we have found this organ not only in thofe 

 who had a great deal of memory in regard to fafts and things, 

 but alio in thofe who might be called fyltematic head-*, who 

 arranged fa(^ts in order, and drclucrd concUifions from tlicni ; 

 and in thofe who had a ready concei)lion, and who dilliu- 

 guiflied themfelves by a defire of knowing every thing. It 

 even appears to ug that the operation of combining faiHs to 

 deduce fnjm them a rcfult is one of ihe principal ailions o. 

 this organ : the elephant, at leaO, \vhieh kecp-i in its trunk 

 water to bcfprinkle, as it pnfles, the perlon who Dlllnded it 

 i^ the 



