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ther be my aim to extend and revise both the anatomical and 
phrenological tables, and to give basal views of at least a part of 
the crania delineated.” We sincerely trust that the favorable re- 
ception of this volume will induce him to execute these inten- 
tions. Valuable as the materials are in the present work, they lie 
very much apart.’ He wrote without systematic relation to phre- 
nology ; yet phrenological facts and inferences are presented 
passim throughout the work. Mr. Phillips’s phrenological tables 
are extensive, minute and interesting, but they are not connected 
directly with the text; while Mr. Combe’s essay was composed 
and printed without his having seen either the text of Dr. Mor- 
ton, or the final results of Mr. Phillips’s measurements. There 
is strong evidence, in this course of proceeding, of a very direct 
love of truth, and a reliance on all its parts harmonizing with each 
other; but much of the effect and instruction are lost to the 
reader, in consequence of the facts and principles not being 
brought into juxtaposition by the respective contributors. We 
shall expect this defect to be supplied in the next edition, which 
we do not doubt will be called for. The work is remarkably 
cheap, keeping i in view the quantity and quality of the materiel 
of which it is composed. * 
‘estscript.—On page 363, we remarked that “ there is a discrepancy between 
the eave of the ancient Peruvian skulls, and the civilization ascribed to their 
several aditional casts of skulls belonging to the same series, and although I am 
satisfied that Plate IV, (Fig. 4, p. 361,) represents an unaltered cranium, yet, as it 
is the only unaltered one I tia met with, among the rémains of that ancient peo- 
their nation. My matured opinion is, that the ancient Peruvians were a branch of 
the great 'Toltecan family, and that the cranium had the same general characteris- 
tics in both. I am at a loss to conjecture how they narrowed the face in such due 
Proportion to the head ; but the fact seems indisputable. - I shall use wer exertion 
to obtain additional ‘eiticrials for the farther illustration of this subjec 
igne Samver site Monror. 
Philadelphia, March 3, 1840. 
rton requests us also to subjoin the re note: “* The author has 
h he nominally divides into two 
itions, the American and the Foreign. 
Uon ; American copies being dedicated to Dr. 5, ees and Mr. J. 8. 
Pipe he Foreign copies to Dr. Prichard and James Morton, Esq., the author’s 
le. In the ee pen the letter to Mr. Phillips is jaaarted at the end of 
lume,’’ j 
