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Annals of Phrenology.
To Consist of Articles from the Edinburgh, Paris, and London Phrenological Journals, and of such Original Papers as May be Selected and Approved by the "Boston Phrenological Society".
1833--1836 Quarterly
Boston, MA. Publisher: Marsh, Capen & Lyon. Editor: Rev. Nahum Capen; Committee of Publication: Rev. John Pierpont, William B. Fowle, J.F. Flagg, John Flint.
Corporate author: Boston Phrenological Society 1/1, October 1833-2/4, February 1836. $3.00 a year, 128 pp. The journal was prompted by the visit of Johann Spurzheim to the United States (he died in Boston in 1832 and the Boston Phrenological Society was begun the same day), and consisted almost exclusively of articles from abroad, primarily Edinburgh. Bela Marsh (1797-1869) was a Boston publisher who went on to become one of the leading spiritualist publishers in the early days of the movement, publishing notably works of Allen Putnam, Andrew Jackson Davis, Warren Chase, P.B. P.B. Randolph, Adin Ballou, and others. His bookshop on Cornhill Street, Boston, advertised itself as the depot for physiological, phrenological, water-cure, reform/anti-slavery, and spiritualist works. LOC; Koln ZBMedizin.
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