J34 A Jhort ViiVJ fif the Cf^niognomic Syjiem 



the preceding evening, arranges iever^l fafts, and deduces 

 from them a refult which is a real logical conclulion ; an4 

 we are acquainted with no other organ in the elephant to. 

 which this action can be referred. 



The automatons motion of a man who perceives that h^ 

 has aftcd wrong, feems to fupport tbefe conjectures : \\t, 

 ilrikes the middle of the forehead with his hand. 



1 8. The Organ of PairJmg and of the Senje for Colours. 



The organ of the fenfe for colours or of painting occupies 

 ihe anterior part of the frontal bone below the orbit. Dr, 

 Gall has obferved this ors;an in all painters of great talents. 



" As this difcovery did not reach us till lately, we have 

 been able to colleft only a fmall number of obfervations : 

 we have, however, obferved it in fome individuals; and it is 

 very apparent in the headof Raphael, in the National Mu- 

 feum. No, 57." 



19. Organ of the Senfe for Numbers.. 



The organ which correfponds to the inferior and exterior 

 part of the frontal bone near the zygomatic apophyfis of that 

 bone has the funftion of the fenfe of numbers : it exifts ir^ 

 men who have a retentive memory for numbers, and in arith- 

 meticians, who perform with great facility the combinations 

 of calculation : it cxifts in that kind of pie which has the 

 faculty of counting as far as ninej the only inllance known 

 among animals. 



" We had occafion to obferve this organ on the head of a 



blind pcrfon at the Quinzc-V'ingts, who is difiinguifhed by 



hisariihrnetical talent?; and Dr. Gall has in his pofll'fficn the 



bulls of feverul men which furnii'h very inftruAive exapiples." 



20. Organ of the mufical Senfe, 



Below this organ is that of the mufical fenfe, or fcnfc of 

 founds. It atls in the fame manner as the other organs, 

 prodiiftively and reprotlr.ftively ; it gives a memory for recol- 

 iefting founds; it facilitates new combinations of mufical 

 compofitions J it i;u;ites the birds to fing : it afts in thofe 

 which are learning to fpeak, and whof§ language is founded 

 only on this remembrance of founds. 



It is abfolutely wanting in animals which have no mufical 

 fenfe; it is very apparent in the parrot and flarling; and the 

 ureat muficians Giuck, Moz^rt^ Haydn^ and Pieyel, furnifh 

 uriking examples of it, 



2 1 . Organ of the Senfe for Mechanics. 



In the lateral and infenior part of the frontal bone is placed 

 the organ of the fenfe fur mechanics. The caltor, v.hich con- 



firuiSls 



