| | 1 | Author: | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | | | | | Phrenologist, publicist. Combe was a prominent writer, lecturer, and popularizer of the phrenological movement in 19th-century Great Britain and the United States. Phrenology was the intellectual antecedent of later nineteenth- and twentieth-century craniology and anthropometry. Public debates over phrenology's materialist foundations foreshadowed succeeding arguments over the basis and validity of subsequent racial formalisms. | |
| | | Title: | Letters concerning phrenology
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 30 October 1823 - 11 May 1840 | | | | Extent: | 7 letters | | | | Abstract: | Miscellaneous letters concerning phrenology to the editor of the Edinburgh Literary Gazette, J. C. Holland, John Vaughan, and the reviewer of the Phrenological Transactions in the Edinburgh Literary Gazette. | | | | Source: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 2 | Author: | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | | | | | Phrenologist, publicist. Combe was a prominent writer, lecturer, and popularizer of the phrenological movement in 19th-century Great Britain and the United States. Phrenology was the intellectual antecedent of later nineteenth- and twentieth-century craniology and anthropometry. Public debates over phrenology's materialist foundations foreshadowed succeeding arguments over the basis and validity of subsequent racial formalisms. | |
| | | Title: | George Combe Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Microfilm | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1822-1836 | | | | Extent: | 3 reels | | | | Abstract: | Film copy of papers in National Library of Scotland. | | | | Source: | George Combe Papers (Film 1351) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 3 | Author: | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | | | | | Phrenologist, publicist. Combe was a prominent writer, lecturer, and popularizer of the phrenological movement in 19th-century Great Britain and the United States. Phrenology was the intellectual antecedent of later nineteenth- and twentieth-century craniology and anthropometry. Public debates over phrenology's materialist foundations foreshadowed succeeding arguments over the basis and validity of subsequent racial formalisms. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Samuel Morton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 4 April 1838 - 4 November 1840 | | | | Extent: | 20 letters | | | | Abstract: | 20 letters to Morton. Phrenology; craniology | | | | Source: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 4 | Author: | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | | | | | Phrenologist, publicist. Combe was a prominent writer, lecturer, and popularizer of the phrenological movement in 19th-century Great Britain and the United States. Phrenology was the intellectual antecedent of later nineteenth- and twentieth-century craniology and anthropometry. Public debates over phrenology's materialist foundations foreshadowed succeeding arguments over the basis and validity of subsequent racial formalisms. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Isaac Hays
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 12 February 1839 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Phrenology | | | | Source: | Isaac Hays Papers (B H334) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 5 | Author: | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | | | | | Phrenologist, publicist. Combe was a prominent writer, lecturer, and popularizer of the phrenological movement in 19th-century Great Britain and the United States. Phrenology was the intellectual antecedent of later nineteenth- and twentieth-century craniology and anthropometry. Public debates over phrenology's materialist foundations foreshadowed succeeding arguments over the basis and validity of subsequent racial formalisms. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to William Hutton
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 23 April 1836 - 27 April 1836 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | Phrenology | | | | Source: | William Hutton Papers (B H978) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
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