ly in conjunction with the woman.

Some of the principal physiognomical contrasts may be summarised here.

Man is the most firm; woman the most flexible.

Man is the straightest; woman the most bending.

Man stands steadfast; woman gently retreats.

Man surveys and observes; woman glances and feels.

Man is serious; woman is gay.

Man is the tallest and broadest; woman the smallest and weakest.

Man is rough and hard; woman is smooth and soft.

Man is brown; woman is fair.

The hair of the man is strong and short; the hair of woman is pliant and
long.

Man has most straight lines; woman most curved.

The countenance of man, taken in profile, is not so often perpendicular
as that of woman.

FAMILY PHYSIOGNOMY. The resemblance between parents and children is very
commonly remarkable. Family physiognomical resemblance is as undeniable
as national physiognomical resemblance. To doubt this is to doubt what
is self-evident.

When children, as they increase in years, visibly increase in their
physical resemblance to their parents, we cannot doubt that resemblance
in character also increases. Howsoever much the character of children
may seem to differ from that of their parents, yet this difference will
be found to be due to great difference in external circumstances.

JUSTUS VON LIEBIG

Animal Chemistry

Baron Freiherr Justus von Liebig, one of the most illustrious
chemists of his age, was born on May 12, 1803, at Darmstadt,
Germany, the son of a drysalter. It was in his father's business
that his interest in chemistry first awoke, and at fifteen he
became an apothecary's assistant. Subsequently, he went to
Erlangen, where he took his doctorate in 1822; and afterwards, in
Paris, was admitted to the laboratory of Gay-Lussac as a private
pupil. In 1824 he was appointed a teacher of chemistry in the
University of Giessen in his native state. Here he lived for
twenty-eight years a quiet life of incessant industry, while his
fame spread throughout Europe. In 1845 he was raised to the
hereditary rank of baron, and seven years later was appointed by
the Bavarian government to the professorship of chemistry in the
University of Munich. Here he died on April 18, 1873. The treatise
on "Animal Chemistry, or Organic Chemistry in its Relations to
Physiology and Pathology," published in 1842, sums up the results
of Liebig's inves