Statistics of phrenology : being a sketch of the progress and present state of that science in the British Islands.

  • Hewett Watson
Date:
1836
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Credit: Statistics of phrenology : being a sketch of the progress and present state of that science in the British Islands. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    213 V. GENERAL SUMMARIES. 1. Phrenological Societies. Numher of Societies. — It appears that Phrenological Societies had been formed in twenty-four phaces, up to April 1S36, and that two societies now exist in five of them; making a total of twenty-nine. (What other science can boast so many ?) Of these, three appear to Iiave become extinct; one has expanded into a Natural History Society; and another has joined itself to such aa institution. The number of existing societies is now twenty-four, with a probability of four or five others immediately to be formed, if not already commenced. Scarcely above a dozen of these societies are really in a state of good and regular activity, so far as meetings go; but their books and casts arc producing benefits. The years from which five of them date their existence (the second societies in Dublin, Dunfermline, and Glasgow, and those of Kerriemuir and Ncwburgh) have not been ascertained. The first society was instituted in 1820. In 1825 only three were in existence. In 1830 there were twelve. In the spring of 1S36 there Avere nineteen, besides the five above mentioned, ])robably all established after 1830. Two of the three extinct societies were formed in 1826 and 1827. The two which have expanded into
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