by his labours. The general cause of morals and education, cannot but receive a powerful impulse. I am happy to be able to state that some of the leading men, now engaged in elevating the standard of education in Massachusetts, attended his lectures, and appeared fully to appreciate their importance. His remarks on the treatment of criminals, too, were received with great applause by his audience, and their influence will be felt in our halls of legislation. There were a few cases in which Mr. C. appeared a little careless or loose in the use of language. For example, he spoke of the intellectual organs as being the organs of the will. And when that region of the brain should be deficient, the individual would be deficient in the power of will. But on what principles of philosophy or phrenology, can the organs of intellect be termed organs of will, more than those of the affective faculties? Perhaps I did not understand him. would merely add, in closing this letter, that the approbation and admiration of the audience increased as the lectures proceeded. This was indicated not only by a more numerous and punctual attendance, and expressions of interest in the countenance, but frequently by hands and feet. This objectionable manner of showing approbation became more and more frequent as the lectures drew to a close. And as he left the room for the last time, it was long, and loud, and reiterated. The audience remaining a few moments, adopted a series of resolutions, highly commendatory of Mr. C. and his lectures.

"On the following evening a social entertainment was given Mr. C. at the Tremont House, when a plate was presented as a testimonial of the deep interest with which his friends regarded him and his labours. Over one hundred ladies and gentlemen were present. The remarks of Mr. Pickering, the distinguished linguist, and Dr. Howe, the superintendent of the Blind Asylum, in presenting the resolutions and the plate, did honour to themselves and the occasion; and Mr. C. in reply, fully sustained the reputation he had acquired in his lectures. Happy sentiments were offered, and brief speeches made, which rendered it altogether an interesting occasion. Sobriety, and joy, and merriment, were appropriately blended. They withdrew at an early hour, bidding their distinguished guest farewell."

On conclusion of the course of lectures in Boston, the following resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the subscribers to the course, held on the fourteenth of November:

(1) That this audience feel highly grateful to George Combe, Esquire, for the generous philanthropy which has led him from the shores of his native country, to extend among us the principles of that philosophy, which he has cultivated with so much success.

(2) That we have derived from the lectures of Mr. Combe great instruction and delight that we believe his investigations have shed a valuable light on the physical, moral, and intellectual constitution of man; and that, in our opinion, his labours are eminently calculated to promote the progress of the race in civilisation, virtue, and religion.

(3) That the foregoing resolutions be signed by the chairman, (The Hon. Abbott Lawrence) and secretary, and that the following gentlemen (namely, Hon. John Pickering, LL. D., Hon. Horace Mann, Charles G. Loring, Esquire, Rev. John Pierpoint, George Darracott, Esquire) be a committee to present the same to Mr. Combe.

On the 19th of November, Mr. Combe commenced his course of sixteen lectures in New York. They are reported in copious detail in the New York Whig, introduced by the following short paragraph : —

"At seven precisely on Monday evening, Mr. Combe first presented himself to a New York audience, and was received with that cordiality which our countrymen never fail to manifest towards distinguished merit. Throughout the lecture the most marked attention was paid to the philosopher's arguments. As many of our readers will not have the opportunity of hearing him, and as our friends at a distance will doubtless feel a desire to know what can be said for this much abused science, by its ablest living teacher, we shall present a condensed report of each lecture."

A phrenological friend in New York, writing to the editor of the American Journal in Philadelphia, thus expresses his own ideas of Mr. Combe, as shown in extracts from his letter printed in that Journal.

"For the last three weeks I have had the pleasure of attending Mr. G. Combe's most interesting lectures. You have not seen him, I believe, and it may be gratifying a reasonable curiosity to give you a short description of him, and of his lectures thus far. In person he is rather tall, spare, and feeble in constitution. He is not very erect, but it is a stooping more indicative of a feeble physical organisation, than of small Self-Esteem. His coronal region is nearly bald, and his locks are silvery white. His intellectual region is finely developed, yet more remarkable for its excellent balance than its great size. His Cautiousness, Firmness, and Conscientiousness, are very conspicuous in his organisation, and in his natural language and character. His head runs upward and backward, quite large in the region of Self-Esteem, Approbativeness, Inhabitiveness, Concentrativeness, and Philoprogenitiveness. The lower class of propensities seems very small, and he manifests in all things

the cool, cautious, considerate, mild, steady, decided, and highly disciplined and chastely finished mind. Whatever he begins, he unfolds, step by step, with great order and simplicity of arrangement, and he never leaves it, while a new view remains to be taken, or an objection to be removed. He is thoroughly Scotch in his character and organisation, and as he remarked in his first lecture, the accent of his country has become too deeply rooted in his organisation to be eradicated—yet not so deeply as to produce any other effect than, to us, an agreeable distinctiveness, novelty, and peculiarity of manner. He makes no pretensions to fine elocution or oratory. His lectures are simply in the style of chastened, respectful, earnest conversation. A ludicrous anecdote occurred in reference to this. He employed a gentleman to prepare placards of his lectures, to be put up about the city, advertising his "course of lectures upon Phrenology, and its application to education, legislation, &c." But his placard was printed elocution, legislation, &c. "This, said he, in his first lecture," seemed not only very unfortunate for me, but considering my striking deficiency in elocution, it must appear to you highly ludicrous, I therefore beg you to read education instead of elocution.”

"The fulness of interesting details with which his lectures abound, renders it necessary for him to give what may fairly be regarded as two lectures, each occupying an hour on the same evening. This is not in the slightest degree tedious, for at the end of the first hour, he has a recess of five minutes, during which the audience rise, move about, and converse on any thing they please, thereby giving rest and relaxation to the faculties which may have began to grow weary. This device, he said, was adopted with the happiest effects, and in accordance with the phrenological doctrine of a plurality of mental organs, and their alternate exercise and rest.

"Before his lectures commenced, I thought that, on account of his extended course of sixteen lectures, the time they would consume, and the price of tickets, ($5 for the course,) which some would consider a heavy demand-all taken togetherhe would feel the mortification of meeting a small audience. But I was very happily disappointed. Clinton Hall was well filled; and his numbers have continued remarkably uniform ever since. He is resolved not to repeat his course in any one place, so that your good citizens must take the first and only opportunity, if they would hear Phrenology expounded from the lips of its most distinguished advocate.

During his lectures at your place, he will undoubtedly visit the public institutions for which your city is so distinguished. This he has done in other places. Last Tuesday

he visited the New York Institution for the Blind, and the Lunatic Asylum. I accompanied him to both. At the former he readily discovered several striking proofs of the truth of the science. There were many in whom he pointed out the organ of Colour as very deficient. He contrasted two of the inmates, one remarkable for the size and power of the organ of Number, and the other as deficient in the organ and the powers. While the former could perform long and complicated arithmetical operations mentally, the other was unable to make the least progress in the science of numbers.

"Mr. Combe is becoming quite an object of attention among the most intelligent, as well as fashionable part of the city. Small and very select parties are being made for him, and he is much thronged by calls. I think he will succeed in placing Phrenology on its proper footing in this place. I should not omit to mention, that I see not a few good heads at his lectures, belonging to the more intelligent and inquiring mechanics of the city, and to whom the inducement must be strong, or they would not put their hands so deeply in their pockets. We may not give Mr. C. a public dinner, and present him with a vase, as did our Boston neighbours, but we hope to do that which will please him better; we give him from first to last full houses, and serious and respectful attention. His audience comprises great numbers of medical and legal gentlemen, several of the clergy, and also not a few of the merchants, whose habits of business are averse to scientific investigation, and who usually give to their families or to public amusements their leisure hours."

On the close of Mr. Combe's lectures in New York, a meeting of his audience, including many persons of high station or intellectual eminence, passed a series of resolutions, expressing their gratification and gratitude. These resolutions were copied on page 183. of our current volume, and it may here be sufficient to refer readers to them, if desirous of following Mr. Combe's progress in the order of time. The lectures in New York are said to have been attended by from three to four hundred persons.

Philadelphia appears to have been the next city in which Mr. Combe appeared before an American audience as an expounder of phrenological science. His lectures were delivered in the new hall connected with the Philadelphia Museum, occupying three nights in the week, and attended by a class of five hundred and fifty persons on the average; there being present four hundred and forty-one the first evening, January 4th, and six hundred and seven at the last lecture. character of his audiences," says the American Journal,"is

"The

very intellectual, being composed of the most respectable classes in the city. Large numbers of the medical profession, including several professors in the medical institutions, are among his regular hearers." The Editor of the same Journal then quotes the following paragraph from the February No. of the Eclectic Journal of Medicine, edited by Dr. Bell: —

"It would be difficult within the compass of sixteen lectures to convey, with such force and point, so large an amount of knowledge of the structure, organisation, and functions of the brain, and of the several faculties of the mind, manifested through these latter, together with an available and practical application of the knowledge thus inculcated to the purposes of ethics, intellectual philosophy, education, jurisprudence, and the treatment of mental alienation. He illustrates his leading propositions by numerous and apt details, anecdotal and otherwise; thus happily appealing both to the sentiments and to the knowing and reflecting faculties of his audience. Many persons of both sexes, after hearing Mr. Combe's lectures in this city, will be disposed to join in the opinion expressed by Mr. William Frazer, printer, Edinburgh, as follows: With regard to the system of mental philosophy founded on Phrenology, I have no hesitation in saying, if we may judge from its leading principles, being almost intuitively comprehended by the high and the low, the learned and the unlearned, and from its being practically applicable to all the purposes of life, as well those of the most orthodox divine as of the humblest artisan, that there can be little doubt of its being the true philosophy of the mind, and is at all events vastly superior to any system hitherto adopted." "

The lectures were reported in the Public Ledger (The Daily and The Weekly Ledger) and the Pennsylvanian. From the latter of these papers, of the date of February 16th, we copy an account of some proceedings and resolutions of Mr. Combe's class, on conclusion of the last lecture of the course :

"At the conclusion of this truly interesting lecture, Mr. Combe made a very neat and feeling acknowledgment for the favour with which he has been received in Philadelphia, and returned his thanks to Drs. Bell, Gibson, Pancoast, Morton, and others, for their kindness in facilitating his designs by the loan of valuable preparations.

"After he had retired, the members of the class, at the call of Dr. Bell, formed themselves into an organised meeting. Benj. W. Richards, Esq. was called to the chair, and Mr. Charles Picot was made secretary. Dr. Bell offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted as the sentiments of those present: