MEMOIR OP CAMPER. 
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furnisli hints ivliich ])romise peculiar advantage 
the delineator of human passions, or the objects 
natural history. It is a work of entirely a prac- 
tical nature, and replete with important rules.” In 
Conclusion, Dr Cogan states, tliat if the principles 
•tdvanced and illustrated, should appear to the Eng- 
'sh connoisseurs as important as they did to the au- 
>or, and to his admirers in the Dutch Netherlands, 
* 6 Work must be highly prized in Britain. 
Having now endeavoured to convey within our 
'outs, and in the fewest possible words, some gene- 
'll notion of the objects and plan of this very cele- 
ated work, we can only select from it a single point 
on which to insist for a moment longer. It is re- 
specting that line and angle used by the naturalist, 
and known by the name of Camper’s angle, from the 
attention he devoted to it, and the success with 
'c I he brouglit it into general notice. Having 
^®rved, as a general law, that there is a corre- 
spondence between the outer table of the cranium, 
I the brain itself, so that the size of the latter may 
for inferred from the appearance of the 
tio*^^*^*' ^'aving also observed from his exaraina- 
Wa"'* heads of men and animals, that there 
of tl ^ diversity between the relative bearings 
10 fiont part of the cranium and the jaw bones, he 
^onominated a line drawn along the frontal bone 
passing the insertion of the front 
otlie ’ 'ine ; which again being met by an- 
ine, extending from the external opening of 
