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in mathematics, and will be very systematic in your ar- 

 rangements.' 7 3. " You possess a good deal of firmness 

 in what you conceive to be right, but you want self- 

 confidence." 



These are the main points of the least full and least 

 successful delineation, and the only error is that my 

 mathematics are strictly limited, as indicated in the bet- 

 ter delineation from which I extract the following: 



4. "This gentleman should learn easily and remember 

 well, notwithstanding verbal memory is but moderate." 

 5. " He has some vanity but more ambition. He may 

 occasionally exhibit a want of self-confidence', but gen- 

 eral opinion ascribes to him too much. In this, opinion 

 is wrong. He knows that he has not enough." 6. " If 

 Wit were larger he would be a good mathematician, but, 

 without it, I do not put his mathematical abilities as first- 

 rate." 7. " He has some love for music from his 

 Ideality, but I do not find a good ear or sufficient Time." 

 8. " He is fond of argument and not easily convinced." 



Nos. 1 and 8 combined with large Ideality and Won- 

 der (as indicated by both phrenologists) giving a strong 

 love of the beauties and the mysteries of nature, furnish 

 the explanation of my whole scientific work and writings. 



Nos. 2 and 6 are exceedingly suggestive on account of 

 their curiously precise estimate of faculty. At school I 

 was good at arithmetic and elementary algebra, which 

 always had a fascination for me; but as I left school 

 when only fourteen I did not advance far. After I 

 came of age, however, I was for two years English and 

 Drawing Master in the Collegiate School at Leicester, 

 the Head Master of which was a high Cambridge 

 Wrangler; and he kindly offered to assist me in the 



