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A phrenologist at work on a girl, surrounded by members of her family. Engraving by C. Rolls after E. Sharpe, c. 1830.
Eliza SharpeReference: 18030i
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Dissertation physique de Mr. Pierre Camper, sur les différences réelles que présentent les traits du visage chez les hommes de différents pays et de différents âges, sur le beau qui caractèrise les statues antiques et les pierres gravées : suivie de la proposition d'une nouvelle méthode pour déssiner toutes sortes de têtes humaines avec la plus grande sûreté / publiée après le décès de l'auteur par son fils Adrien Gilles Camper ; traduite du hollandois par Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval.
Date: MDCCXCI [1791]
Archives and manuscripts
Clifford Dobell (1886-1949): Archives
Dobell, Clifford (1886-1949), FRS, protozoologist and parasitologistDate: 1899-1943Reference: MSS.2197-2200 & 6041-6045
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The evidence against the system of phrenology. Being the substance of a paper read at an extraordinary meeting of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh ... / [Thomas Stone].
Stone, ThomasDate: 1828
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A measure of perfection : phrenology and the fine arts in America / Charles Colbert.
Colbert, Charles, 1946-Date: [1997], ©1997
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Phrenological dictionary / By L.N. & J.A. Fowler.
Lorenzo N. FowlerDate: [1894?]
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Remarks on the erroneous impressions and spirit of hostility at present existing, more especially amongst the religious public : in regard to the diffusion of scientific knowledge in general, and of phrenology and its supposed effects in particular / by H.G. Wright.
Wright, H. G.Date: 1836
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Phrenology and Graphology
Date: 1848-1857Reference: MS.7157
Part of: King, John Bishop M.D. (St. Andrews) M.R.C.S. (b.1831), medical practitioner at Penang, and his wife King, Joanna (née Smith) (b.1847)
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Left profile of a head showing depressed frontal lobes. Drawing, c. 1900.
Date: c. 1900Reference: 28387i
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On the study of character : including an estimate of phrenology / by Alexander Bain.
Bain, Alexander, 1818-1903.Date: 1861
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Phrenology proved, illustrated, and applied : accompanied by a chart : embracing an analysis of the primary, mental powers in their various degrees of development, the phenomena produced by their combined activity and the location of the phrenological organs in the head : together with a view of the moral and theological bearing of the science / by O.S. & L.N. Fowler ; assisted by Samuel Kirkham.
Orson S. FowlerDate: 1837
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Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries
Date: 1815-1926Reference: MS.7364
Ephemera
Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 4.
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Phrenology, psychology and psychiatry ephemera. Box 1.
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Key to phrenology / by Prof. Wm. Seymour, practical phrenologist & psychologist, of Philadelphia.
Seymour, William (Phrenologist)Date: cAug. 29th, 1890
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The brain: side view illustrating the distance of the occipital bone from the phrenological 'organ of philoprogenitiveness'. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
Date: 1901Reference: 28019i
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A man with a large, protruding head walking with a heavy gait; illustrating the reflective faculty in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27624i
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Letter from George Combe to Francis Jeffrey, esq. [in answer to his criticism of 'Phrenology' contained in no. 88 of the Edinburgh Review] / [George Combe].
George CombeDate: 1826]
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Phrenology, Horace Mann and educational reform / Dwight W. Paulson.
Paulson, Dwight W., 1942-Date: 1993
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Religion, natural and revealed, or, The natural theology and moral bearings of phrenology and physiology : including the doctrines taught and duties inculcated thereby, compared with those enjoined in the scriptures : together with the phrenological exposition of the doctrines of a future state : materialism, holiness, sin, reward, punishments, depravity, a change of heart, will, foreordination, fatalism, etc. etc. / by O.S. Fowler.
Orson S. FowlerDate: 1846
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Lectures on phrenology / by George Combe ; including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States, with notes, an introductory essay, and a historical sketch by Andrew Boardman.
George CombeDate: 1889
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The secret of hypnotism / by Prof. Mills, lecturer upon mental science, hypnotism, and popular entertainer ... 5, Garden Terrace, South Shore, Blackpool.
Mills, J. T.Date: [between 1900 and 1915]
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The skull of a widow named Lecouffe, who incited her son to murder an old woman, their protector, for her money. Lithograph, c. 1835.
Date: 1835Reference: 28125i
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Skull of a Caribbean person: side view. Lithograph by Engelmann after C.P. Mazer.
Mazer, Carl Peter, 1807-1884.Reference: 28078i
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A phrenologist at work on a girl, surrounded by members of her family. Engraving by C. Rolls after E. Sharpe, c. 1830.

Clifford Dobell (1886-1949): Archives

The evidence against the system of phrenology. Being the substance of a paper read at an extraordinary meeting of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh ... / [Thomas Stone].

A measure of perfection : phrenology and the fine arts in America / Charles Colbert.

Phrenological dictionary / By L.N. & J.A. Fowler.

Remarks on the erroneous impressions and spirit of hostility at present existing, more especially amongst the religious public : in regard to the diffusion of scientific knowledge in general, and of phrenology and its supposed effects in particular / by H.G. Wright.

Phrenology and Graphology

Left profile of a head showing depressed frontal lobes. Drawing, c. 1900.

On the study of character : including an estimate of phrenology / by Alexander Bain.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 4.

Phrenology, psychology and psychiatry ephemera. Box 1.

Key to phrenology / by Prof. Wm. Seymour, practical phrenologist & psychologist, of Philadelphia.

The brain: side view illustrating the distance of the occipital bone from the phrenological 'organ of philoprogenitiveness'. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

A man with a large, protruding head walking with a heavy gait; illustrating the reflective faculty in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Letter from George Combe to Francis Jeffrey, esq. [in answer to his criticism of 'Phrenology' contained in no. 88 of the Edinburgh Review] / [George Combe].

Phrenology, Horace Mann and educational reform / Dwight W. Paulson.

Lectures on phrenology / by George Combe ; including its application to the present and prospective condition of the United States, with notes, an introductory essay, and a historical sketch by Andrew Boardman.

The secret of hypnotism / by Prof. Mills, lecturer upon mental science, hypnotism, and popular entertainer ... 5, Garden Terrace, South Shore, Blackpool.

The skull of a widow named Lecouffe, who incited her son to murder an old woman, their protector, for her money. Lithograph, c. 1835.

Skull of a Caribbean person: side view. Lithograph by Engelmann after C.P. Mazer.

Secrets from the asylum. [1/2].