A Sketch of his Work as a Craniologist. 



arrived on a stage-coach with a large bottle, similar to those still 

 shown in many chemists windows, between his legs. Grattan was 

 not only the founder of the well-known firm which still bears his 

 name, but he also started the manufacture of the now celebrated 

 Belfast aerated waters, which for many years were exclusively 

 manufactured by his firm. I mention these facts to show that his 

 scientific tastes and pursuits did not prevent him from conducting 

 his business with marked ability, enterprise and success. 



During his long residence here, Grattan took an active interest 

 in the existing literary and scientific societies. Thus he was 

 President of the Belfast Literary Society during the session 1843-4, 

 and read two papers on phrenology — one on the 2nd May, 1842, 

 entitled, "Phrenological Ethics," and the other on 12th February, 

 1844, "Phrenological observations on the treatment of criminals.' 

 For many years he was an office-bearer in our Society, to which he 

 contributed three papers. His first communication " On the 

 importance, to the Archaeologist and Ethnologist, of an accurate 

 mode of measuring human crania and of recording the results, — ■ 

 with the description of a new Craniometer," was read on the 6th 

 April, 1853, and was published in the Ulster Journal of Archce- 

 ology, Vol. i., 1853, illustrated by 5 plates. Again, on the 20th 

 January, 1858, he read a paper "On some ancient Irish skulls, 

 and on an exact method of taking and recording cranial measure- 

 ments." Part of this communication was published in the Ulster 

 Journal of Archtzology, Vol. vi., 1858, with 3 plates, under the 

 title, " Notes on the human remains discovered within the Round 

 Towers of Ulster, with some additional contributions towards a 

 Crania Hibernica." This appears to have been his last contribu- 

 tions to Craniology at our meetings, but in i860 he gave an 

 interesting demonstration on the oxy-hydrogen light and its uses 

 for illuminating the microscope and throwing pictures upon a screen. 



We have just seen that his last published paper on craniology 

 appeared in 1858 ; but after that date he was engaged in the 

 preparation of another contribution to this subject. He went so 

 far as to print 16 pages of letterpress and to prepare a number of 

 plates. After his death his daughters, the Misses Grattan, bound 



