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These examples must furnish an apology for submitting for candid consideration and further development, a theory which we believe to be well-founded, but which is capable of improvement and extension.

Subject to the foregoing remarks, the following Physical Classification of Noses^[4] is submitted, as being, in part, well-known and long-established, because well-defined and clearly marked:—

Class I. The Roman, or Aquiline Nose. Class II. The Greek, or Straight Nose. Class III. The Cogitative, or Wide-nostrilled Nose. Class IV. The Jewish, or Hawk Nose. Class V. The Snub Nose, and Class VI. The Celestial, or Turn-up Nose.

Between these there are infinite crosses and intermixtures which will at first embarrass the student, but which, after a little practice, he will be able to distinguish with tolerable precision. A compound of different Noses will of course indicate a compound character; and it is only in the rather rare instance of a perfect Nose of any of the classes that we find a character correspondingly strongly developed. We shall endeavour to support each part of the hypothesis by well-defined and striking instances, selecting the most decided and perfect noses of each class, and at the same time the most peculiar and decided characters.