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See Flaccillation.

That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.

The science which treats of the head.

The science which treats of the cerebrum or brain.

The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.

bstitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.

A treatise on the bile and bilary organs. Dunglison.

The science which treats of cartilages. Dunglison.

ver the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc. Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.

A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.

A treatise on colors.

and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.

The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.

The department of astronomy relating to comets.

The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.

See Conchologist, and Conchology.

The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.

The department of science (as of ethnology or archæology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.

A treatise on crime or the criminal population. -- Crim`i*nol"o*gist (-j, n.