"Vain is the ridicule with which one foresees some persons will divert EDINBURGH: MACLACHLAN, STEWART, & CO. LONGMAN & CO.; SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO.; W. S. ORR & CO., LONDON. AND JAMES M'GLASHAN, DUBLIN. MDCCCXLVII. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE EIGHTH EDITION. THE First Edition of the present Work was published in June 1828; and since that time there have been printed the following numbers :— I. Editions in Duodecimo, II. The People's Edition, in double columns, royal 8vo, published at 1s. 6d. per сору, 11,500 67,000 III. The School Edition, 12mo, at 1s. 6d. } 1,000 boards, IV. The present Edition, post 8vo, 1,000 Total, 80,500 Numerous editions have been printed also in the United States of North America, while translations have appeared in the French, German, and Swedish. Languages. These facts seem to indicate that it has been received with increasing favour, in proportion as it has been studied. The present edition has been revised, corrected, and enlarged. 45 MELVILLE STREET, EDINBURGH, 1st July 1847. HENDERSON BEQUEST. On 27th May 1829, the late W. R. Henderson, Esq. younger of Warriston and Eildon Hall, executed a deed of settlement, by which he conveyed to certain trustees such funds as he should die possessed of; and, in the event of his dying without leaving children, he appointed them to pay certain legacies and annuities to individual friends, and gave the following instructions regarding the application of the residue of his funds. And, lastly, the whole residue of my means and estate shall, after answering the purposes above written, be applied by my said trustees in whatever manner they may judge best for the advancement and diffusion of the science of Phrenology, and the practical application thereof in particular; giving hereby and committing to my said trustees, the most full and unlimited power to manage and dispose of the said residue, in whatever manner shall appear to them best suited to promote the ends in view: Declaring, that if I had less confidence in my trustees, I would make it imperative on them to print and publish one or more editions of an Essay on the Constitution of Man considered in relation to External Objects, by George Combe,'-in a cheap form, so as to be easily purchased by the more intelligent individuals of the poorer classes, and Mechanics' Institutions, &c.; but that I consider it better only to request their particular attention to this suggestion, and to leave them quite at liberty to act as circumstances may seem to them to render expedient; seeing that the state of the country, and things impossible to foresee, may make what would be of unquestionable advantage now, not advisable at some future period of time. But if my decease shall happen before any material change affecting this subject, request them to act agreeably to my suggestion. And |