Till the age of fifteen she displayed no other dispositions than those of an amiable, good-tempered girl; however, she had not been much under the eye of her stepmother for two years previous to this age, from whom I got the following information :

When nearly sixteen years of age she became servant in the family of Sir James Ferguson, and the first report of her conduct, made by the housekeeper to her stepmother, was, "that she was in every respect a good servant, but that she "seemed too fond of the society of the men-servants in the "hall;" and before the end of a year she was dismissed the house in consequence of becoming pregnant, being not yet seventeen years of age."

Between this period and her twenty-first year little that is precise is known of her conduct by my informant. At this time she was again admitted into Sir James's establishment, at the recommendation of the housekeeper, who considered her" a weak but good-hearted girl, who would be steadieras she grew older." Unfortunately, however, the disposition previously complained of was again manifested; and, becoming a second time pregnant, she was again dismissed the house.

She subsequently became servant to Mrs Johnston in Newhaven; but of her conduct while here her friends know nothing, (having determined to take no further notice of her,) except that during this time she had a third child. So convinced was her father of the indomitable nature of this propensity in her, that when requested to admit her into his house, he refused, declaring, that "taking her in would be an inlet to a' wickedness," and often wished she had died when she was born." I ought to mention, that he and all his other children are decent and well-behaved people; and, from the accounts I have received, they never showed this woman, in their conduct, any bad example.

Leaving Newhaven, she entered the service of a gentleman in Broughton Street, where for a time she appeared a mild good servant; but at length her habits formerly complained

of were discovered, and from this house she was driven away, in consequence of a fourth pregnancy. Soon after delivery she was admitted into this hospital, where she died, now in her thirty-second year.

The whole brain in this case weighed considerably less than the average weight of the brains of females. The cere brum weighed only 2lb. 10oz. some grains, while the weight of the cerebellum, without medulla oblongata or pons, was pronounced, with great surprise, by these gentlemen, to be no less than about 5 oz., a size which they stated was not only proportionally but absolutely greater than any they had yet met with in the course of their investigations either in man or woman; which coincidence, by the by, we expected from the uniformly candid conduct of Professor C., would have been mentioned by him, as on a former occasion, to the students present.

The above are only a few of the prominent circumstances of this poor woman's history, hurriedly drawn up while fresh on my memory, which, should they be considered insufficient to establish the coincidence in question, may be easily increased by examining any of the servants who lived with her in the families mentioned.

The forehead of this woman appeared,, while she lived, low and sloping, while the greater proportion of cerebral matter seemed to be situated above and behind her ears.

Wishing all prosperity to the Phrenologists, so far as their doctrines are founded on truth, I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, W. G. D..

Edinburgh, 3d May, 1828.

NOTICES.

DR SPURZHEIM has lectured in Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wakefield, with great success since our last publication. We anticipate the greatest advantages from these exertions,-indeed some of them are already apparent. Mr Montgomery the poet

attacked the account of the “ Phrenology of the Hindoos" given by Dr Murray Patterson; and in a Sheffield newspaper an answer was given to his objections, which, for knowledge of the science and of human nature, extent of information concerning the Hindoo character, clearness of statement and power of reasoning, affords the Phrenologists great reason to be pleased with their champion. We regret that the length of the opposed articles precluded our transferring them to our pages.We observed also in the Wakefield newspaper a high encomium on Dr Spurzheim's lectures, with a distinct avowal of conversion to the cause on the part of the editor, after deliberate attention to the evidence; and in this Number we have already noticed an able lecture on Phrenology by the editor of the Chesterfield Gazette, who also now advocates the doctrines. In addition to these accessions, we have great pleasure in noticing that the able editor of the Dundee Advertiser has avowedly declared himself a Phrenologist; and that the editor of the Glasgow Free Press, whose talents and enterprise are well known to the public, has followed the same example. These are the results of inquiry, and prove the force of truth in overcoming prejudice and ensuring success to a sound philosophy.

The notice of Dr Spurzheim on Education is unavoidably postponed till our next publication.

DUNFERMLINE.-A Phrenological Society was founded here in December last.

FLORENCE.--Professor Uccelli has been removed from his chair in the University of Florence, for having dedicated two volumes out of six of a medical work, published by him, to an exposition and defence of Phrenology. He has many support*ers among the medical men.

We hear that Mr Dewhurst intends to deliver several courses of lectures on Phrenology at the Literary Institutions, London.

Mr G. COMBE has completed his elementary course of lectures in Edinburgh, which cominenced on the 5th January, and has received an invitation to deliver a course of lectures in Dublin in April, 1829.

The next Number of this Journal will appear on 1st August.

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Phrenological Journal and Miscellany.