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frculties should be exercisect even fo? the lowest mechanic, as h*?^ 

 who reflects, will always ba a better traclesnian than he wlw acts 

 b|f" iniitution and habit ; all men shou'd be tau!j;ht to thi^ik. Pro-, 

 fessions. should be studied ; peculiar jud'^emeut depends on pe-. 

 fuliar- organs, but a philosophical, judi^einent does/ not. Edu- 

 catioj^i, on these princi])les would chuiinish crimes, but no.t make 

 men angels ; for this thev must be born again. In the actual, 

 state of man it is impossible to prevent errors entirely. Here 

 thePi-oiessor, exhibited six skulls of Germans, six of Frenchmen, 

 and' six casts of Egvpbian mummies, Caribs and Calmucs, all of 

 which were dissimilar ; hence the impossibility of deteiimhiing 

 national character from such skulls ;; nor has Dr. S., ever seen six 

 skulls of one nation in any of the cabinets of those naturalists 

 who pretend that the native country of any subject may be dis^ 

 covered by the figure of the skull. In general, however, there- 

 is a national configuration. 



[To bq coptinucd.]' 



XIV. Notices respecting New Boohs. 



M. 



.R. Thomas Forster, a most ujdcfatigable and successful cul- 

 tivator of the natural sciences, has just given another proof of his 

 xealto extend natural knowledge andbenent Society, by publish^ 

 ing a neat Edition of a Greek Poem, The Diosemeia of Aratus ; 

 illustrated with numerous Notes, collected from various Authors,, 

 ancient and modern, respecting meteorology, atmospheric plia3-. 

 nomena, and their corresponding eljects on several animals, birds, 

 &c. Those who have read this ingenious writer's elaborate 

 " Observations on the Brumal Retreat of the Swallow" may 

 form some conception of the multifarious notes with which he 

 lias- illustrated the Greek, text of Aratus. 



Tile same Gentlieman has in the pre<(s, and will publish in a 

 few davs, An enlarged Edition of his llcsearches about Atmo- 

 spheric Ph;pnomena. Having noticed in the ))ictures of even 

 some of the most celebrated landscape painters, a great error 

 frequently in the arrangements of the clouds, he will subjoin in. 

 tiie new Edition, some rough copper-plate engravings of tl'.e 

 tlitterent modifications of clouds, illustrative of the electrical, 

 theory of their formation and changes. 



In the press, and will be published early in February, "Dis- 

 sertations and Lcttv.s, by Don Josejjh Rixlrigiiez, the ('hevalier 

 Dduiiibri:, Dr. Thomas Thomson, Dr. Olinthus Gregory, ami 



others : 



