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38 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BENGALI BOdKS. observation, reading, instruction by lectures, conversatf©n> and study compared; of learning a language; of books, teachers, learners : improvement by ^ conversation, by discussion, by study or meditation ; on fixing the attention, enlarging the mind : improving the memory : of determining a question. On the sciences, their rise : methods of teaching : style : prejudices of men: on writing books : of authority, its use and abuse. A work that may be read with much profit by teachers and advanced pupils. 168. (E. T.) PHRENOLOGY, hj Radhaballab Das, p. c. 1850, pp. 93, 1 Re. From Combe's and Spurzheim's- Phrenology, four Phrenological Maps. In 1845 a Phrenological Society was established by natives in Calcutta. In treating of Phrenology of Dr. Grail and the faculties according to phre- nological classification, an account is given of the following mental subjects,— the various affections or propensities, the mental impulses, the reasoning faculties of comparison and, causation. NATURAL HISTORY* The village population shew great powers of ob- servation on objects of Natural History, which we trust will form an indispensable subject of study in all Vernacular Schools ; Natural History has been lately introduced into the . Government English Schools, and a recent educational des- patch recommends the formation of Agricultural Schools. There are two of this kind commenced in the Calcutta Bota- nical Garden. The Calcutta School Book Society at an early period directed its attention to Zoology. In 1819 they published Lawson's History of the Lion, with a picture which excited such alarm, that one school, where it was placed, was at once emptied of its scholars — the Hindus be- lieve there is only one lion in the world ; to this book suc- ceeded in 1822-3 separate pamphlets on the bear, elephant, rhinoceros, tiger and cat, by Mr. Lawson, who was well skilled in wood engravings. Ir 1821 the London Missionary Society began a series of reward books for schools, combining Natural History, with religious instruction. In 1832 appeared Anec- dotes of the Dog, pp. 65, in English and Romanized Bengali giving the different species of the animal, but the romanizet Bengali met with no success among natives. The Agri-