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Whoever acquires sufficient knowledge of the subject to make 

 observations for himself will soon find the shape of the skull to 



third, and fourth volumes were completed, in the same style, with the name of 

 Gall only ; and what had been printed in the joint names of Gall and Dr. S. 

 was undistinguishable from the rest, was evidently the production of the same 

 genius, and remained the sole property of Gall, and the disappearance of Dr. 

 S.'s name from it proved that it was none of his. In the remaining parts with 

 only Gall's name, was done all that had been promised in the first volume 

 which bore both names. Gall, in the rest of his work, always referred to the 

 former parts, which bore Dr. S.'s name also, as solely his own. " Tout 

 ce que j'ai dit dans le premier volume," &c. " Dans le premier volume 

 de cet ouvrage, j'ai expose" 1'anatomie," &c. " Dans le second volume j'ai 

 aborde le but principal de mes recherches." (4to. vol. ii. p. 251., iii. p. xv.) 

 In his preface to the 8vo edition he says, " It is three years since the publication 

 of my great work on the anatomy and physiology of the brain was finished 

 (4 vols. fol. and 4 vols. 4to.), now to be had of the author, and at N. Maze's, 

 bookseller, No. 4. Git-le-cceur Street. He then informs his readers, that, though 

 he had thought it necessary to publish a work worthy of the object, he had 

 been requested on all sides to publish an edition of it which might be within 

 the means of every body. At p. 73. he refers to the first volume " de mon 

 grand ouvrage," and so in numerous other parts (ii. 432., v. 502., vi. 165., 

 iii. 70.). He then recapitulates all the anatomy of the large work, and all the 

 physiology, as his own, without thinking of mentioning Dr. S.'s name any 

 more than Dr. Magendie's. (1. c. t. vi. p. 497. sqq.) On this Dr. S. never 

 ventured to remark. Gall thenceforth generally used the words I and my, 

 except when Dr. S. had witnessed any thing with him. For Dr. S., being 

 engaged to travel with him, after he had brought his science to such 

 fulness that he determined to lecture upon it in various countries, neces- 

 sarily, he says, made "une grande partie de mes observations en commun 

 avec moi." (8vo. t. i. p. viL) Even in the preface to the first volume, 

 he spoke of all the discoveries, anatomical and physiological, as having long 

 been made ; but that, rather than yield to a desire of fame, he had preferred 

 allowing others to publish them, and presenting a work to the public which should 

 be supported by " more abundant observations and more positive results; " a 

 remark agreeing with his assertion to me, that, after he had engaged Dr. S., he 

 only collected more facts in illustration of his discoveries and made additions 

 which were mere shades of knowledge. Dr. Georget, in his book referred to 

 p. 37 1 ~ supra, published in Paris soon after the appearance of the great work, 

 speaks of it as Gall's, and addresses his remarks to Gall. (Gall, 8vo. t. v. p. 448. 

 sqq.) I formerly exhibited Dr. S.'s injustice to Gall in regard to anatomy; he is 

 equally unjust in regard to physiology. While he is obliged to detail Gall's 

 discoveries and acknowledge him the founder, he inconsistently says, " Gall 

 has the great merit of having begun our phrenological discoveries." " He had 

 pointed out many relations which exist between various talents and characters of 

 man and instincts of animals, and certain cerebral parts, before I was so happy 

 as to become acquainted with him." (Notes to the article in the Foreign Quar~ 



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