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they must amuse themselves by picking them up 

 and pretending to swallow them, saying to each 

 other out loud, "How nice they are ! exquisite! 

 delicious! " Cunning dogs, they had slipped 

 them into a little box concealed under their 

 sleeve! This of course attracted the notice of 

 people going the same road, who, thinking they 

 really did eat them, naturally enough wished to 

 have a taste too. So one scrunched a " Russula," 

 another a " Fuliginosa," &c, &c. Oh, Mr. 

 Editor, had you hut seen their faces! you would 

 never have forgotten it. I thought my brother 

 would have died from laughing; for my part, I 

 thought it a great shame. 



Once we turned off by " Vcnnes; " and right 

 glad I was, for I am sure there would have been 

 a breeze. Some of the caterpillar-eaters had got 

 furious; and had we not been pretty strong, they 

 would certainly have attacked us. Well, we soon 

 arrived at the " Tuilerie," crossed the "Flon," 

 where there is a very picturesque water-mill, and 

 reached the north of " Sauvabelin." Here, of 

 course, an hour or two must be spent. So we 

 directed our steps to a quantity of "Epilobium 

 Hirsutum," in hopes of finding some caterpillars 

 of "Elpenor." In this we were disappointed; 

 but we got what is much better — a supply of 

 those of " CEnotheroe." A shout from under the 

 rocks announced something good ; and I was so 

 startled, that I fell from half-way up an old oak 

 tree, where I was pursuing a black squirrel, 

 while my brother was keeping a look out below, 

 in case the beast should jump down. 



Well, I must say they did not shout for 

 nothing. It was the finest specimen of a 

 " Fraxini " I have ever seen, or perhaps ever 

 shall see. Even the old grandpapa, when he 

 saw it, was ready to faint with astonishment. 

 It was something indeed worth having; and 

 although the old Bombyx has several of them, I 

 always see a smile on his face when he looks at 

 this particular one. 



After a capital hunt in this quarter, we re- 

 turned to the north of the wood, to a singular 

 little mound of sandstone, about seven yards long 

 by two broad. Here several specimens of the 

 beautiful little " Cicindela Germanica " were 

 taken. I heard old grandpapa say, this is the 

 only spot in the canton where they are found; 

 and I know Bombyx never found them else- 

 where. Well, we gradually got across the forest, 

 and in the road to "Grand Mont," when, being 

 excessively hot, the music master proposed a halt 

 at a little chalet called the " Etoile." This pro- 

 posal was carried by acclamation ; and so, Mr. 

 Editor, I am going to enjoy my bone, and you 

 shall learn all about our stroll in my next. 



your faithful friend, 



Nov. 23. Fino. 



THE AET OF AUTHOESHIP. 



PHRENOLOGY FOE THE MILLION. 



He is the best author, who ever keep3 virtue 

 in sight; who is more attentive to convey suitable 

 ideas than to amuse with fine language. Who 

 keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; and whose 

 conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, — 

 such as the traveller casts upon declining day. — 

 Johnson. 



No. XXXVII.-PHYSIOLOGY OF TUB 

 BRAIN. 



BY F. J, GALL, M.D. 



{Continued from page 326.) 



Let us now proceed to a careful con- 

 sideration OF, — 



The influence of wants, on the instincts, 

 propensities, and faculties of animals ; and 



OF MAN. 



Some would have the necessities of man and of 

 animals regarded as the principal source of their 

 instincts, propensities, and faculties. 



These necessities may be regarded under two 

 aspects. If they come from without— such as 

 cold, heat, &c, all that Ave have said respecting 

 external things, which rouse our internal facul- 

 ties, is applicable to these. The accidents which 

 incommode animals or man, lead them, it is true, 

 to exercise their faculties in order to rid them- 

 selves of the evil; but, it does not follow that these 

 necessities give rise to the internal faculties : if it 

 were so, the same external causes would produce 

 in all animals and in all men, the same qualities; 

 whereas, each animal and each man reacts in 

 virtue of his organisation on things without, 

 and in the manner peculiar to himself. The idiot 

 tries no means to secure himself from the action 

 of the air; the sane man covers himself with 

 clothing. The partridge dies with hunger and 

 cold in rigorous winters, and the swallow falls 

 benumbed from the summit of buildings ; while 

 the nightingale and the quail depart for more 

 temperate climates, without waiting for cold and 

 hunger. The cuckoo has no less need to lay eggs, 

 than the linnet; yet she builds no nest. Are the 

 hare and the squirrel both hunted? The one 

 runs fro hide himself in his burrow, the other 

 saves himself on the top of trees. Thus all that 

 can be attributed to external circumstances is, 

 that they put the various internal faculties in 

 operation. 



If we call necessities, the internal move- 

 ments, or sensations which lead both animal 

 and man to seek something out of themselves 

 for their satisfaction; if, for example, we give 

 the name of necessities to voluptuous desires, 

 ambition, &c, it is evident, that these move- 

 ments of the soul are only the result of the ac- 

 tion of the interior organisation; since man and 

 animal can have no such desires, so long as the 

 organs adtipted to them are not in a state to act. 

 This previous development and susceptibility of 

 action are indispensable conditions, in order that 

 the interior propensities may make themselves 

 felt, and that the animal and the man may be ex- 

 cited to seek the objects, which find themselves in 

 relation with their active organs. In the new- 

 born infant, the need of the breast acts power- 

 fully ; not because the breast itself produces the 

 want, but because, for the preservation of the 

 child, a reciprocal relation has been established 

 between hiin and the breast. By a contrary 

 reason, the sexual organs of this child and their 

 corresponding organ in the brain not being de- 

 veloped, there is not in him the slightest trace of 



