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West Coast Times, Issue 367, 26 November 1866, Page 3

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PROPERTYS FOR SALE. pOYSE, MUDIE, AND CO., have for Sale the undermentioned Splen* did Propertys : — Auction Mart and Section 58, Whar street Free Store and do 226, Sewell street Cottage and do 70i, Hamilton street Shed and two do, 681, 686, do. For full particular, apply to i Roxse, Mudie & Co., 5464 Wharf street. "D "5 n !3 A L F", ■*• AN ALLOTMENT In Revell-street, WITH THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED BUSINESS OF BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER. T . NELSON, Retiring from Business, is desirous of disposing of his very eligible allotment, with the buildings thereon. Also, the carefully selected and extensive STOCK of BOOKS & STATIONERY. If not previously disposed of, the whole will be submitted to public auction on the 12th December, without the least reserve. T . NELSON, HEVELL-STEEET. 5300 TO the Editor of the West Coast Times. — Sir — Having just received a copy of the "Nelson Colonist" of the 16th November, in which I find the following letter ; and as my motto is truth, and honesty my guide, I beg that you will advertise it, to show the public my right to the title of practical Phrenologist. Toussaint La Gbiff, Practical Phrenologist. Fire Brigade Hall, Ilokitika, 24th, 1566. THE MURDEREE'S ANG-LE IN PHRENOLOGY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE COLONIST. Sir — I see by a letter in the " Examiner," on the subject of the " Murderer's angle," that Mr Hamilton repudiates the idea of Mr La Griff being the discoverer of the said angle. Mr La, Griff Bays that, sixteen years go, when in India, the fact of a murderer's ear being far clown in the head was pointed out to him by an old Hindu woman. And that he examined the head, and sent the particulars to the Edinburgh Phrenological Society. Now, Sir, Mr La Griff may justly deem himself the discoverer ojjthe said angle. This may be quite consistent with Mr Bridge's discovery. If the depth of the ear in the heads of the murderers be true in Liverpool, where Mr Bridges resided, there is every reason to believe that it will, also, be true in India. That being the case, there is nothing inconsistent in the two gentlemen who were devoting themselves to the study of Phrenology, to make the same discovery, unknown to each other, to come to the same conclusion when analogous cases were- presented to their observation. As Phrenologists, as well as those who study in other departments of science, acknowledge nature te be consistent in all her works, it will readily occur to those who are conversant with the history of art and science, that many simultaneous discoveries have taken place, when no connection, real or apparent, could be traced between them ; indeed, when time, distance, and other conditions, precluded the possibility of conjunction. Another phase of the same subject k the priority of knowledge of the angle claimed-by Mr Hamilton. It certainly matters very little who was first acquainted with the fact indicated by the angle ; but if any honor can be really ascribed to priority of teaching, surely that honor must be given to Mr La Griff. He, in all his professional labors in Nelson, public and private, made it his endeavor to explain the nature and meaning of the angle. This, Mr Hamilton has not done. Twelve months ago, on his first visit to Nelson, he delivered a course of lectures on Phrenology, in the Provincial Hall ; but that fact, or subject, he did once mention. A private course of lessons, also, was given in the Literary Institution, and there the angle was a scaled subject. If it was necessary to bo known by those who studied phrenology, why was it not taught ? If it was not necessary, why make such a noise about it now ? At that class there were tapes and callipers for the different measurements of brain ; great care was taken to arrive at correct conclusions respecting length, breadth, pi-oportion, size, and other considerations, and there were numerous murderers' skulls of several races of mankind on the lesson table. Dibscrations and explanations Averc givenjarid admirably given, on the iv urderers'ty pc of brain ; but tho angle, or points forming the angle, were never indicated. If this angle was necessary to a thorough understanding of Phrenology, and Mr Hamilton knew it, ho Bhould have taught it. Why he did not leach it has not been answered. Tho tkulls of murderers were opened, and the effect of long prison-life Mr Hamilton carefully attempted, and I believo successfully attempted, to trace ; and what was bupposed to be the effect of a lifetime of crime on various constituted brains, was pointed out in plain and forcible language. The w orst heads of the worst kind of criminals— namely, murderers — was shown aB constituting by themselves a class differing in many respects one from tho other, yet all merging into one type, and known as the " murderer's typo." This Mr Hamilton fully, and I thiuk, satisfactorily explained j but as I said before, no reference was made to any angle. I tun, &c, 5512 Sqcabk.