Symbolical head and phrenological chart. Explanation of the engraving: the design of "The symbolical head" is, to show by practical illustration, the natural language of the mental organs situated in various parts of the brain ...
Lettering continues: "For example - veneration (no. 14), is represented by a devotional attitude: Benevolence (no. 13) by the good samaritan: Secretiveness (no. 7), by the cat catching the rat: Destructiveness (no. 6), by the tiger destroying his prey: Sublimity (B.), the Niagara Falls: Acquisitivenss (no. 8), by the miser weighing and counting his money: Causality (no. 35), by Newton philosophising on the falling of the apple: Alimentiveness (*) [listed between 6 & 7], by two persons eating and drinking: Firmness (no. 15), by the donkey, &c, &c.". Lettering continues at great length with list and short analysis of each of the 35 faculties and 4 temperaments. There follows a note of explanation on the "comparative development of the respective organs" on scale of even numbers from 2-24; then an advertisement: "Just published, 'The phrenological mirror', by Dr. Bushea, L.L.D., comprising an enlarged arrangement of phrenological developments, and combinations of faculties, for the practical illustration of the science - second edition, price one shilling"
