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circumspect about phrenology, but maintained that it prefigured more sophisticated study of brain anatomy. When transferred to Warren, the collection of more than 550 specimens, including 25 skulls (p 9) was housed in the
Mastodon Rooms of Harvard Medical School. Frederick Coombs, a lecturer and Society member, noted in the Annals that even after sale of the collection, members of the Boston Phrenological Society were permitted loan of the specimens for lectures to the public. Though the collection now belonged to The Boston Medical Society at Harvard, the Medical School "will not be accused of any partiality for the science ."
198:, and to ascertain the bearings of the science upon the physical, moral and intellectual condition of man." p 140 Its first meeting, December 31, 1832, was held on Spurzheim's birthday. (same pg) Ninety members were in attendance. Society officers included: Nahum Capen, Rev. John Pierpont, William B. Fowle, J. F. Flagg MD, John Flint MD, Jonathan Barber, J.G. Stevenson and S.G. Howe. In 1835, the society reported having 127 members. At the 1839 anniversary meeting of the Society,
218:(494), detailing the Society's disagreement with articles in such journals as the Christian Examiner and the New England Magazine. Through cases and personal anecdotes, Society writers defended the relevance of phrenology to social welfare and mission work, and discussed its harmony with Christianity. The journal also published reprints of contemporary European phrenology literature and phrenology news.
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in 1833. The editor, Rev. Nahum Capen, credited
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Society grew its collection of busts, casts, skulls and drawings, soliciting readers through the Annals (p 528 annals). By 1835, the Society reported that it had amassed nearly 500 specimens.(511) A catalogue of the holdings of the collection was printed privately in 1835. The collection
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delivered a talk in which he described the inactivity of the society, and invited members to concentrate on the teaching of phrenology to children, to develop their sense of
Christian morality through an awareness of the connection between the mind and body
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Reminiscences of Dr. Spurzheim and George Combe : and a review of the science of phrenology, from the period of its discovery by Dr. Gall, to the time of the visit of George Combe to the United States, 1838, 1840
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contains plaster head-casts, masks, and skulls of well-known individuals. Busts and casts of artists, politicians were presented beside those of what Warren described as "degenerates and celebrated criminals."
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Reminiscences of Dr. Spurzheim and George Combe: And a Review of the
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in the United States outside of its controversial place in medical lecture halls, and into the sphere of social reformers and ministers. The
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New physiognomy, or Signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms and especially in "the human face divine" / by Samuel R. Wells.
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An address delivered at the anniversary celebration of the birth of
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The History of Phrenology: A Chronology. John van Wyhe, PhD, History & Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
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Warren, J. C. (1921). The collection of the Boston Phrenological Society -- A retrospect. New York: P.B.Hoeber, Inc.
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While not on display, the collection could be viewed by anyone who "appl to the janitor of Harvard Medical School."
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Talking Heads: an exhibit on the phrenology collections at the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library
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