CONTENTS. Page ARTICLE I... A Sketch of the Natural Laws of Man, by G. Spurzheim, M.D............ 326 2. The Constitution of Man considered in Relation to External Objects, by George Combe,................ 344 ton relative to the two Lectures against the Science 355 III.-Report on the Case of Four Spanish Pirates, by the Phrenological Society of Washington, United 364 IV.-Case of Partial Disease of the Brain, accompanied with Partial Loss of Mental Power,-read to the 405 V.-Monomania, from the Clynique,.... 419 VI.-Letter from Dr Spurzheim to the Editor of the Phrenological Journal,............ 422 VII.-Practical Phrenology, 426 VIII.-Case of Spectral Illusion, by Mr Levison of Hull,... 430 IX.-The Memory of Names impaired by a Fall on the Forehead,... 431 X.-Dr Granville on Phrenology,............ 433 XI.-Case of Macdonald, the Associate of Mary Mackinnon............. 435 XII.-Critical Analysis of “ The Herculaneum” of Mr Ed win Atherstone, and corresponding Development, Society,--read to the Society by Mr Simpson,...... 437 and the Brain, with Remarks on Phrenology and 448 Page Article XIV.-Description of an Icelandic Skull, and Case of Dis ease in the Faculty of Time, in a Letter from Dr Hoppe to Mr George Combe,................ 455 XV.-Edinburgh Review and Phrenology,... 460 XVI.—The London Encyclopædia, Part 33, Article Phrenology,.... 464 XVII.- Dinner of the Kilmarnock Phrenological Society,. 468 XVIII.- Proceedings of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society,....... 475 NOTICES, 481 CONTENTS. ....... Page Article I.-Observations on Mental Derangement, and some of its Causes, .......... .483 11.-On Tragedy, with some Remarks on the Character of Hamlet, .........516 III.-Proceedings of the Hull Society for Phrenological Inquiry,............. .........539 ment of William Burk, executed for Murder at Development of William Hare, his Accomplice,.... 549 ....572 ...577 VII.-Discourse pronounced over the Tomb of Dr Gail, 27th August, 1828, by Dr Fossati,............... ..580 VIII.-Case of Monomania, caused apparently by Circum scribed Chronic Meningitis, with Remarks. By David Scott, M. D., Cupar-Fife........... ........585 .... other Parochial Institutions for Education, esta- ..604 Pugh, hung for Murder, by Mr J. L. Levison, .622 Gentleman in Edinburgh, on the Subject of Phren- .........630 Utility of the Doctrines of Phrenology, by the .633 ..636 NOTICES, ............. ............638 ...602 ............ THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL. No XVII. ARTICLE I. SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART., AND PHRENOLOGY. 1.-CORRESPONDENCE PUBLISHED IN THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY BETWEEN SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON AND DR SPURZHEIM, AND BETWEEN SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON AND MR GEORGE COMBE. LETTER FROM SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART. To the Editor of the Caledonian Mercury. SIR,—The report of Dr Spurzheim's lectures on Phrenology, published in your paper of last Thursday, contains allusions to me of such a nature, that I cannot with propriety suffer them to pass without an immediate correction of their inaccuracy. What Dr Spurzheim may state within the walls of his lecture-room I have taken no opportunity of learning; and I certainly should not have deemed it incumbent on me to notice any observations relative to my proceedings, had these not been thus obtruded on my attention, and published to the world. Dr Spurzheim complains that I have acted unfairly, in refusing to print the papers against Phrenology which I read before the Royal Society, and in not openly discussing the opinions which I had ventured to attack. Before thus animadverting on my conduct, he was certainly bound to have ascertained the accuracy of his allegations; and he ought therefore to have known, from my correspondence with Mr Combe, (to be read in the Fifteenth Number of the Phrenological Journal,) that, far from refusing to publish these papers, I explicitly declared that I only awaited the decision of the umpires appointed to report in regard to the truth or falsehood of certain essential phenomena, VOL. V. -No XVII. |
