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posterior third of the parietal bone, more developed than those 
which have this faculty only in a small degree. Compare the heads 
of the dog and the bitch, the male and female cat, the male and 
female weeper, (Cebus apella, Desm. ) 
“< Third.—In the travelling animals, and especially in the class 
of animals of periodical passage, the part of the cranium placed 
above and behind the orbital margin, is expanded in a sensible de- 
gree: some present so remarkable a developement of the organ 
which gives to animals the faculty of guiding themselves, (locality, ) 
that the margin of the orbit appears arched and rounded. 
<< Fourth.—All animals which live on flesh, or which have a 
propensity for destroying, have a particular part of the cranium 
whose developement corresponds with that of this faculty. Thus 
all the ferw, without exception, have the squamous portion of the 
temporal bone enlarged in a perceptible manner. We may cite for 
example, the tiger, the cat, the fox, the martin, the weasel, the 
ermine. 
“« In the carnivorous birds, properly so called, the portion of the 
cranium situated behind the orbit, corresponds with the organ of 
carnivorous instinct, and presents a remarkable developement. In 
the omnivorous birds, the enlargement is a little more posterior. 
“« What we have said of the faculties of educability, of attach- 
ment for the young, of the faculty of self-guidance, &c. is appli- 
cable to all the seventeen faculties which M. Vimont has described 
in his memoir. Every person who would make numerous resear- 
ches upon the crania of circumspect, cunning, courageous, mild, 
constructing, contriving animals, &c. &c. would be convinced, M. 
Vimont assures us, that there really exists a correspondence be- 
tween the conformation of the crania of these animals and their 
psychological acts. The number of observations collected by this 
author is so considerable, the proofs which he has given in support 
of his researches, which are based-upon a profound study of the 
brain and the skull, are so varied and beautiful, that they seem to 
reas his propositions all the power of demonstrated truths.” — 
Such is the language of the translators of Meckel with regard 
to a science, which has been attacked in this school with an ani- 
mosity which would. indicate some other stimulus than the mere 
quest of truth. 
The Animal Kingdom, described and arranged in conformity with 
ats Organization ; by the Baron Cuvier. Translated, with 
large Additional Descriptions of all the Species hitherto named, 
and of many not before noticed, and other Original Matter ; by 
C. Grirrrru, F.R.S. C. Hamiiton Smrru, F.R.S. and E. 
Pipcron. London. Parts I. to XX. 
Ir is no longer necessary to deplore the utter neglect which the 
study of natural history for a long time experienced in this country. 
