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rior lobe, as denoted by the super-orbitar plate. The point C is 

 the centre of ossification of the parietal bone, corresponding to the 

 centre of Cautionsness. The line C D is drawn from C through 

 the center of ossification in the left side of the frontal bone. This 

 is the centre of Causality. E corresponds with Firmness of the 

 phrenologist. The space D A B is an approximation to the de- 

 partment occupied by the intellectual faculties. D C E contains 

 the organs of the moral sentiments. All the space behind A and 

 below the line D C F is devoted to the animal organs. The space 

 EOF contains Self-Esteem and Love of Approbation, which 

 may act either with the moral sentiments or animal propensities, 

 according as either predominate. Mr. Combe states that these 

 lines are only approximations to accurate demarcations of the 

 regions, as no modes of rigid admeasurement have yet been 

 discovered. 



Mr. Phillips invented an instrument, (which he describes,) by 

 which Dr. Morton and he measured the .contents of the space 

 above D C F in cubic inches, in nearly all the skulls. This is 

 called the coronal region. By deducting the contents of this space 

 from the contents of the whole skull, they give the measurement 

 of the subcoronal region. Mr. Phillips found it impossible to 

 measure DAB and the space behind A and below D C F in 

 cubic inches, and Dr. M. therefore measured, as an approxima- 

 tion, the whole space contained in the skull anterior to the ante- 

 rior margin of the foramen magnum. He designates this the 

 anterior chamber. He measured all behind that margin, and 

 calls it the posterior chamber. 



In addition to these, Mr. Phillips has added tables of thirty nine 

 phrenological measurements, (which are lucidly described by 

 him,) of each skull. We quote the following statement as an ex- 

 ample of the spirit of philosophical enquiry, which animated Mr. 

 Phillips in his labors. "A series of measurements with the crani- 

 ometer and compasses, much more extensive than any we had 

 seen published, had been carefully made on upwards of ninety of 

 the crania, when Mr. George Combe arrived in this city. That 

 gentleman immediately pointed out so many erroneous points of 

 measurement, (arising from the use of a badly marked bust,) that 

 those tables were condemned, together with the labor bestowed 

 on them," and new measurements of the whole were substituted 

 in their place ! 



