Phrenology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Letters to J. L. Levison from Combe and others
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1243
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 20 non-chronologically numbered items, letters and fragments, as follows:
1 - Letter to Levison written from Grafton Place, London. 3 July 1827
2 - Fragment, Mr. Fletcher, Bookseller, Southampton, 15 February 1821 [postmark]
3 - Folded paper or envelope with black edge and black wax seal, addressed to Levison, from Sir G. S. Mackenzie,...
Dates:
1821-1848
Material relating to the research and interests of Matthew H. Kaufman
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1564, Folder: Coll-1808 / SC-Acc-2016-0196
Identifier: Coll-1808
Content Description
The collection of largely off-print and other ts material, and photographs... is composed of:
1 x folder - photographs of mouse embryos
1 x folder - ts and off-print material on phrenology
1 x folder - off-print material on medical history
1 x folder - off-print material on the mouse embryo
1 x folder - off-print material on other science
Dates:
1990-2006
Phrenological manuscript entitled "Synopsis and Analysis of the Mental Qualities of Mr Ernest B. Nixon by Professor Hatfield, graduate of the American Institute of Phrenology", late 19th - early 20th-century
Item — Box CLX-A-387
Identifier: Coll-1848/22-0028
Scope and Contents
Phrenological manuscript entitled "Synopsis and Analysis of the Mental Qualities of Mr Ernest B. Nixon by Professor Hatfield, graduate of the American Institute of Phrenology". Fowler & Co., New York. Front cover and back cover are printed, contents of the booklet are manuscript. On the back is written: "Prof. Hatfield may be engaged to give his Unrivalled Character Sketches at Bazaars and Entertainments. Delineation of Character from Photographs". The text analyses character and...
Dates:
late 19th - early 20th-century
Records of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-227
Scope and Contents
The records of the Phrenological Society include, within boxes: cash book; catalogues of skull casts and other; papers of the Society; six notebooks including lecture titles, names of members and visitors who inspected the casts, and a 'memoir on the phrenology of Hindostan' read to the Society in 1823. The records also include a letter-book covering the period 1820-1840, minute-books for 1841-1870, and scrap-books of newspaper cuttings and printed items. Some material is stamped: Henderson...
Dates:
1820-1870
System of phrenology
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1150
Scope and Contents
The item that forms the collection is a manuscript version of the susbtantial part of the 4th edition of Combe'sA system of phrenology,which was printed in Edinburgh in 1836. It consists of 634 numbered pages written in ink, unbound.
This is a most desirable addition as Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library have the records of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh (Gen.608).
Dates:
1836