Phrenology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Physiognomy and Phrenology Posters by Johann Kaspar Lavater and Franz Joseph Gall
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2920
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two illustrated educational broadsides, one on physiognomy by Joseph Kaspar Lavater, and one on phrenology by Franz Jospeh Gall. 1829-1830.The first is a wall chart showing J. K. Lavater's system of physiognomy, entitled "Das Lavatersche System der Physiognomik, oder die Kunst durch die Constitution, die äusseren Gewohnheiten und vorzüglich durch die Untersuchung der Former des Kopfes und der Gesichtszüge des Menschen dessen Geschmack, Neigungen,...
Dates:
Publication: 1829-1830
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 1820-1870, 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