Morton'' s Crania Americana. 357 



European ; and he contends that the opposite and popular notion 

 is the result of superficial observation, and is true only of certain 

 degraded tribes on the coast of Africa.* 



We entertain a great respect for Prof. Tiedemann, but we can- 

 not subscribe to his principle that the whole brain is the measure 

 of the intellectual faculties ; a proposition which assumes that the 

 animal and moral feelings have no seat in this organ. He does 

 not grapple with Dr. Gall's facts or arguments, but writes as if 

 Gall had never existed. Dr. Morton has followed a different 

 course, and we think wisely. He says, "I was from the begin- 

 ning, desirous to introduce into this work, a brief chapter on phre- 

 nology ; but, conscious of my own inability to do justice to the 

 subject, I applied to a professional friend to supply the deficiency. 

 He engaged to do so, and commenced his task with great zeal ; 

 but ill health soon obliged him to abandon it, and to seek a distant 

 and more genial climate. Under these circumstances, I resolved 

 to complete the phrenological table, and omit the proposed essay 

 altogether. Early in the present year, however, and just as my 

 work was ready for the press, George Combe, Esq., the distin- 

 guished phrenologist, arrived in this country; and I seized the 

 occasion to express my wants to that gentleman, who, with great 

 zeal and promptness, agreed to furnish the desired essay, and ac- 

 tually placed the MS. in my hands before he left the city." He 

 adds that Mr. Combe provided his memoir without having seen a 

 word of the MS. of the work, or even knowing what had been 

 written, and besides, owing to previous arrangements, he was 

 limited to a given number of pages. 



* Tiedemann's Essay has been critically examined by Dr. A. Combe, in the 

 Phrenological Journal, (vol. xi,) who shows not only the error of principle com- 

 mitted by the author in assuming the whole brain to be the organ exclusively of 

 the intellectual faculties, but the more striking fact that Tiedemann's own tables re- 

 fute his own conclusions. Tiedemann's measurements are tiie following: 



Indies. Lines. 

 Average length of brain in 4 Negroes, ...... 5 11 



do. do. do. 7 European males, ... 6 21-7 



do. do. do. 6 European females, . . 5 10.^ 



do. greatest breadth in 4 Negroes, 4 8 16 



do. do. do. 7 European males, ... 5 1 1-7 



do. do. do. 3 European females, . . 5 4 J 



do. height of brain in 3 Negroes, 2 11^ 



do. do. do. 7 European males, ... 3 4 



do. do. do. 4 European females, . . 2 9^ 

 The inferiority of the Negro brain in size, is self-evident from these dimensions. 



