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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    GKNEKAL SUMMARIES. given. From 1S26 to 1S3G tlicre were nearly a Lundred course^. By a riule calciilation (probably too low) the nuuibc-r ot'leciures may have exceeded a thousand, with- out including tliose delivered in London. At the average of a hundred auditors to each lecture_,and one shilling for each auditor, tlie sum paid for phrenological lectures has been 5000/. The want of exact data prevents this being much better than a mere guess. On his first visit to England, 1811-1 SI7, Spurzheim delivered ten or a dozen courses of lectures ; the attendance being only forty in the metropolis, and fewer in other places. During his later residence in Britain and occasional visits, 1S25-1S31, he lectured in many places, to audiences varying from forty to two hundred and fifty in tlie country, and from a few scores to upwards of seven hundred in Lon- don. iNIr. Combe began to lecture in 1822. For some years his auditors in Edinburgh were few. The writer of this volume had the pleasure of hearing his course in 1829, and thinks the attendance was only thirty or forty. By the certificates accompanying the Testimonials, it appears that in the winter of 1S32-3, the number of tickets for his whole course was two hundred and twenty- five, besides seven hundred persons admitted to single lectures. For another course, in 1834-5, the tickets to the whole were two hundred and tMenty-four, besides eleven hundred and fourteen visiters to single lectures. These two courses were delivered at the request of the Edinburgh Pliilosophical Association. Lectures on INIoral Philosophy, by Mr. Combe, were even more popular; there being five hundred and fourteen tickets to the whole course of twenty lectures, and four hundred and ninety- five ^'^siters to single lectures. In 1821< and 1836 Mr. Combe lectured in Glasgow, to a hundred and fifty in the former, and five hundred in the latter year, when the issue of tickets was checked by tlie want of space to accommo- date auditors. The same want of accommodation had !iy_J..lltX^ll^itj^»^VUI»pilj.l.i^jyil..jy|iijl^),||lMi jy|.HJi;,i)|,,j,j^M I l,^i,l]|ll.i.||^^J »RpjJ^ffw^i» t fc * J>iyw;i^y..jij^nj.j^yi^i
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