ILLUSTRATED CHIEFLY BY AN ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF BEAUTY IN WOMAN. BY ALEXANDER WALKER, AUTHOR OF "INTERMARRIAGE," "WOMAN," "PHYSIOGNOMY FOUNDER EDITED BY AN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN HARTFORD: PUBLISHED BY S. ANDRUS & SON. W3 1848 Entered, according to Act aongress, in the year 1840, By J. & H. G. LANGLEY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York STEREOTYPED BY J. 8. REDFIELD, 13 Chambers Street, New York DEDICATION ΤΟ GEORGE BIRBECK, M.D., F.G.S., PRESIDENT OF THE LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, &C., &c., &c. A DEPARTMENT of science, which in many respects must be regarded as new, cannot so properly be dedicated to any one as to the inventor of the best mode of diffusing scientific knowledge among the most meritorious and most oppressed classes of society. When the enemies of freedom, in order effectually to blind the victims of their spoliation, imposed a tax upon knowledge, you rendered the acquirement of science easy by the establishment of mechanics' institutions you gave the first and greatest impulse to that diffusion of knowledge which will render the repetition of such a conspiracy against humanity impossible. You more than once also wrested a reluctant concession, in behalf of untaxed knowledge, from the men who had evidently succeeded, in some degree, to the spirit, as well as to the office, of the original |