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rior lobe, as denoted by the super-orbitar plate. The point C is 
the centre of ossification of the parietal bone, corresponding to the 
centre of Cautiousness, The line C D is drawn from C through 
the center of ossification in the left side of the frontal bone. This 
is the centre of Causality. EE corresponds with Firmness of the 
phrenologist. The space D A Bis an approximation to the de- 
partment occupied by the intellectual faculties. DC E contains 
the organs of the moral sentiments. All the space behind A and 
below the line D C F is devoted to the animal organs. The space 
EC F contains Self-Esteem and Love of Approbation, which 
may act either with the moral sentiments or animal propensities, 
according as either predominate. Mr. Combe states that these 
lines are only approximations to accurate demarcations of the 
regions, as no modes of rigid admensuretnent have yet been 
discovered. 
Mr. Phillips invented an instrament, (which he describes,) by 
Which Dr. Morton and he measured the contents of the space 
above D C F in cubic inches, in nearly all the skulls. This is 
called the coronal region. By deducting the contents of this space 
from the contents of the whole skull, they give the measurement 
of the subcoronal region. Mr. Phillips found it impossible to 
measure D A Band the space behind A and below DCF in 
eubic inches, and Dr. M. therefore measured, as an approxima- 
tion, the whole space contained in the skull anterior to the ante- 
rior margin of the foramen magnum. He designates this the 
anterior chamber. He measured all behind that margin, and 
calls it the posterior chamber. 
In addition to these, Mr. Phillips hoe: added tables of thirty nine 
phrenological measurements, (which are lucidly described by 
him,) of each skull. We quote the following statement as an ex~ 
ample of the spirit of philosophical enquiry, which animated Mr. 
Phillips in his labors. “A series of measurements with the crani- 
ometer and compasses, much more extensive than any we had 
seen published, had been carefully made on upwards of ninety of 
the crania, when Mr. George Combe arrived in this city. That 
gentleman immediately pointed out so many erroneous points of 
- Measurement, (arising from the use of a badly marked bust, ) that 
those tables were condemned, together with the labor bestowed 
on them,” and new measurements of the whole were substituted 
in their place ! 
