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the face are fully perfected; but that this is the mode in which it proceeds, may be determined by inspection of the sinus in skulls, at the different ages from its commencement in the seventh year, to the period of its final development. Having given many facts in confirmation of this theory of the origin of the frontal sinus, in my notes to Majendie's Physiology, editions third and fourth, I shall not enlarge more on the matter here, but conclude by observing that this view of the frontal sinuses does not seem liable to any serious objection. The eminences, therefore, and development of parts, situated over the frontal sinuses, can have no relation to, or congruence with, the parts of the brain within.