. Fowler's works on education and self-improvement, cultivation of the memory and intellect, on matrimony, hereditary descent, its laws and facts, natural religion, temperance and tight lacing : all founded on phrenology & physiology . Franklin. Herschel. The accompanying cut of Herschel, copied from an English en-graving said to be the best ever taken, shows enormous perceptiveorgans in the length and the arching of his eye-brows, and bearsevidence of its having been taken when he was about seventy;whereas, a mask of him now in our collection, evidently takenwhen about forty, shows only a fai
. Fowler's works on education and self-improvement, cultivation of the memory and intellect, on matrimony, hereditary descent, its laws and facts, natural religion, temperance and tight lacing : all founded on phrenology & physiology . Franklin. Herschel. The accompanying cut of Herschel, copied from an English en-graving said to be the best ever taken, shows enormous perceptiveorgans in the length and the arching of his eye-brows, and bearsevidence of its having been taken when he was about seventy;whereas, a mask of him now in our collection, evidently takenwhen about forty, shows only a fair development of these organs. Several months since, we wrote to M. B. Sampson, our Londoncorrespondent, to forward us copies of Devilles specimens illustra-ting this point, hoping to receive them before we published thisportion of the lecture. The following, while it explains the causeof their delay, gives encouragement of their early reception :—Dated, Bank of England, Feb. 3, 1842. In the course of a week or two, I shall procure from Mr. De-ville the casts which you require, and will send them to you with-out delay. You would have received them ere this, but Mr. Devillehas been confined by indisposition.* * These casts wer
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