88 ON THE MENTAL QUALITIES AND 



that he actually did so, at a meeting of the French Insti- 

 tute, and in the presence of Majendie. Vimont states, 

 that he has discovered, in birds of passage, other two facul- 

 ties besides Locality, termed by him distance and resist- 

 ance ,* which, in his estimation, act a prominent part in 

 impelling them towards migration, The first of these, he 

 says, gives a knowledge of the space travelled over; the 

 other, in all probability, enables them to appreciate the di- 

 rection of the winds He considers that Gall has not been 

 at the trouble of studying with any degree of care the man- 

 ners of migratory birds, or he would have attributed more 

 weight to inclemency of the weather as an impelling cause ; 

 <f for/' says he, u the more severe the season is, the greater 

 is the number of individuals of the same species which go 

 southward." 



Dr. Vimont states, that the faculty known to phrenolo- 

 gists by the name of Locality is found in all animals, 

 though it differs in degree ; and to this diversity are we to 

 attribute the remarkable phenomenon of birds returning with 

 accuracy to the same spot, after an absence of five or six 

 months. At the same time, Vimont considers this as not 

 the sole cause of migration; inclemency of climate, and 

 other causes little known, contribute to effect the same 

 end ; and he thinks that another faculty, besides Locality, 

 Distance, and Resistance, namely, that of Time, is also 

 concerned in migration. The last- mentioned organ may be 

 confounded with Philoprogenitiveness ; and observers are 

 liable to fall into this error, which, however, is trifling, 

 compared with that committed by Gall, when he laid down 



* The organs of these two faculties appear to be analogous to 

 No. 25, or Weight, of the Edinburgh Phrenologists. 



