countenance, and was replaced by an expression of stern indignation. The organ which provoked this distressing character of severity, was that which Dr. Spurzheim places at the head of his series-into the description of which he enters with such earnest dedication of thought and which he denominates "the organ of amativeness" this organ is the same that Dr. Hirnschädel denominates "org. generatio;" and on the subject of which, as was before observed, he was memorably brief and reserved. He expatiated largely on Dr. Spurzheim's treatment of this article, and with a high national feeling. He dreaded lest the English nation, for which he entertained a very particular regard, and of whose refinement he had conceived the most exalted opinion, should receive this gross and offensive article as a rule for judging of the delicacy of the German nations. He formally disclaimed it from the chair, in the most emphatic terms, calling it a blot upon the German

name; and affirming, that it could not possibly advance the interests of science; that it was too well qualified to defile youthful minds; but, that it could afford no gratification whatever, unless to a corrupt and purulent curiosity. He made an animated and eloquent appeal on this subject to his German auditors, in the name of their country; and his appeal was answered by acclamations of assent, which suspended the lecture for a quarter of an hour. He pointed out to them, that the English followers of Spurzheim, though they retain the principle of the article, had cut off and cast away all its corrupt appendages; as a needy person will cut off all the putrid parts of a piece of flesh, to obtain the little morsel which wears the appearance of being sound.. He condemned, in the same tone, the Doctor's unwarranted separation of this organ from that which he has named philogenitiveness, or love of offspring,' constituting them two distinct organs;

whereas, he himself found them to be one and the same in man, although in the brute creation they are not united; and he supposed, that the latter fact was the cause of Dr. Spurzheim's error. Yet, he wondered how the Doctor could have failed to perceive; that their union, in the human cerebral system, was determined by the presence of a dominant Ratio, which does not reside in that of brutes. And he concluded his strictures, by clearly demonstrating; that the "Cranioscopy" so confidently asserted by the two great Ologists, can never advance them or their disciples to the "Psychology" which they profess to seek as their end, unless they pass through the Craniosophy and Encephalology interposed between the two of which he then proceeded to unfold the mysteries, and to display the experimental benefits, in a series of fortyseven Discourses, which electrified his congregated auditory with delight and admiration.

HAVING Concluded the course of his lectures on Encephalology, in which both himself and his auditory were profoundly sensible of the wonderful effect produced by the enlargement and elevation of his org. aspi-ratio; Dr. Hirnschädel began to contemplate the execution of a plan of travel, which he had before meditated, but which was finally determined by his perusal of the works of Gall and Spurzheim. He now wished, to witness the effect of their doctrines in the countries where they were received; and to examine, at the same time, the crania of

those persons by whom they were embraced. He therefore made the requisite preparations for his journey; but he did not on this occasion take Gans with him, who had received so violent a distaste for travelling, from his excursion to the Carpathian mountains, that nothing could ever induce him again to quit the village of his nativity.

Though Dr. Hirnschädel had persevered in the practice of wearing no covering to his head, the singularity of the effect was immensely diminished at the years to which he had now attained; his baldness, only appeared like a very early loss of hair; and, as to the effects of the compress and vacuum, so many middle-aged men have wens, and so many have scars, that his person attracted very little attention. As, however, he wished to make his projected tour incognito, he thought it expedient to wear a hat, which he caused to be made of the lightest materials. It was his design to proceed by Dresden,