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off, a picture of the document, etc., is obtained on the 

 piipcr, and is ready for transference either to stone, zinc, 

 or a copper plate. 



PHRENOLOGY. 



Phrenol'Dgy (Gr. phrm, the mind, and logos^ a discourse). — 

 The science of the human mind as manifested in the con- 

 figuration of the skull. In this science the fliculties are 

 located in thirty-five places, and classified as follows, viz. : 



Propensitiks. Sentiments. Intellectual. 



Amativeness, Self-esteem, Individuality, 



Philoitrogenitiveness, Love of approbation. Form, 



Inhabitiitiveness, Cautiousness, Size, 



Adhesiveness, Benevolence, Weight, 



Combativeness, Veneration, Coloring, 



Destructiveness, Firmness, Locality, 



[Alimentivencss], Conscientiousness, Number, 



[Love of life], Hope, Order, 



Secretiveness, Wonder, Eventuality, 



Acquisitiveness, Ideality, Time, 



Constructiveness. Wit or ludicrousness. Tune, 



Imitation. Language. 



Eeflective. 

 Comparison, Causality. 



PLANTS. 



Botany (Gr. hofane, a plant). — That branch of natural history 

 which treats of plants. It is divisible into, 1. Structural 

 Botany, Organography, or Vegetable Anatomy, which has 

 reference to the parts of which plants are composed. 2. 

 Physiological Botany, wliich has reference to the processes 

 carried on by living plants. 3. Systematic Botany, or 

 Taxonomy, in which the relations of plants to one another 

 are considered with a view to their arrangement and classi- 

 fication. 



PEINCIPAL SUBDIVISIONS OF PLANTS. 



1. Cryp'togams. — Plants without distinct flowers or proper 

 fruit, the so-called seed being only a spore. 

 1. Thal'logens, growing in fronds without distinct stems, 



