The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-18
Switzerland. Sweden. Denmark. Chill. New
Zealand. Spain. and Germany.

Zealand. Spain. and Germany.
In the field notes" OF the record OF the coll
leGe for 1892 there are many notes OF gradu-
ates who are lecturing. OF others who are
eaching classes. and Of others who are SELL
ing chronological works in connection with
other callings. It is said that w. G. Alex
ander Of 'S4 is on the Western coast and in
one town had $3.50 house. Mira. Ballard is
working among the public school teachers Of
Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs. Bausch are giving
parlor talks at popular resorts. Ida V. Davis Of
'SS Is in tho Northwest doing good work and
getting pay forit" Orrin Doolittle uGgests the
| use OF bicycles in getting from place to place
A young woman who holds responsible Gov
ernment position in Washington uses her
knowledge OF phrenology In directing the
! affairs OF the Office and dealing with the
Government officials"
The institution was chartered by tho New
York Legislature in 1886. with the power to hold
real and personal estate OF thevalue ofS1OO.OOO.
for no other purpose than that Of promoting
instruction In all departments Of learning con-
nected with chronology. and for collecting and
preserving crauia, busts. casts. and other
representations Of the different races. tribes.
and families OF men," These must DO kept
for free public exhibition at all proper times
The society must give by a competent person
or persons. q course Of not less than six free
| lectures every year. and must have annually
class for instruction In practical chronology.
ito which shall be admitted gratuitously at
least one student from each public school In
tho city of Now York"
The founders OF tho institute were Amos
Dean. ono OF the founders OF the American
News Company: Horace Greeley. the Rev. DR..
Samuel Osgood. A. Oakley Hall. Henry Dexter.
the hygienic physician whose medical baths In
Laight street will be emembered by old New
Workers: Messrs. Fowler Il Wells. the phre-
nologists; Nelson Sizer. now professor In the
institute. and Lester A. Roberts.
Tho institute docs possess and preserve
museum Of skulls. death masks. and busts,
and 1t Is ono OF tho most remarkable and valu-
able collections Of the kind in the world. Tho
collection OF Mr.. Laurence Hutton. which he
has exploited In print recently IL small and
uncomfortable as compared with this. Taken
from the actual heads or faces. in life or after
death. are such casts rs those Of Nicholas
Biddle. Calhoun. Webster. Burr. Hamilton.
Greeley. Lincoln. Sumner. Clay. Tom Ewing.
Fanny Wright, tho first woman's rights aglta-
tor; Gen. Scott Edwin Forrest. George Chrlsty.
Jim Grow" Rice. the Rev. DR.. Chaplin: Chas-
tine Cox. and Rugg. the murderers; Edison.
Seward. Zachary Taylor. Silas Wright: the
only cast OF Webster's head: Tom Paine. Van
Buren,. W. c. Bryant. Kimball the church debt
raiser; Gen. Hancock, Horace Mann. J. Watson
Webb. and many other Americans.
Aaron Burr's. q little. old-womanlsh head.
has the point of his nose twisted forty degrees
out OF line. and 1t 10 seen that this was due TO
the JOSS q several teeth on one side OF his
mouth. Tho nose OF Tom Paine Is even more
awry. of foreigners, tho notable casts arc
those OF Cromwell. Edmund kean. Dante. H.
Hrinsiey slGridan, Sir Isaac Newton. itre
1iyacinthe. William Pitt Eoltalrc and Capt
Cook. the navigator. Eighteen in twenty OF
these are Individually genuine casts At first
hang. Nearly all tho others are duplicates.
ana TWO or three are models made ir9m meas-
nrements; The warts on Cromwelrs brow.
tho lines IN his face. and the matted tuft Of
beaFd below his upper LID give new view OF /,
Among the casts is ono OF DIR. 7. Joseph
Gan; the founder OF tho science OF chronology.
lie lived. perhaps. 100 years ago. In school
~ found that lie had no repeating memory.
that he could not quote anything. or remem.
bsr any words he ever read. He noticed that
other boys could. and presently he noticed
that every ono of these boys had full rounded
eyes. buIging eyes some OF them had, but all
who could repeat from memory had more or
loss protruding eyes. and moro or loss full
ness or conyexity under them. That led him
to investigate other pecuiarities. and he dis
covered that other gifts were equally surely
revealed in other physical pecplaritles OF the
heads OF men and boys. Good diners had u
prominent development In front Of their ears
m i sautiHus i2lk had great width at What
heads. and 80 on through the LIST He verified