Gem of Science, The.
The Advocate of Science, Physiology, Magnetism and collateral Sciences, with a Ladies and Miscellaneous Departments.
1846--1847 Semimonthly
Ann Arbor, MI.
Editor: Ezra H. Sanford.
Publisher: Sanford and Brothers.
1/1, April 28, 1846-1847.
12-32 pp. "$1 per vol. if paid in advance, or $2 if not thus paid." ("And while they can pay for the Gem in one day by their ordinary business, by a bushel or two of wheat, or by a part of the avails of a common plea, an ordinary sermon, or a third of a day's legislating, we shall serve them a year, in return.")

The journal was "devoted to Phrenology, Physiology, Magnetism, and Woman, including a miscellaneous department." It also regularly carried articles on temperance and on clairvoyance. Ezra H. Sanford (1820-1900) was a lawyer who was noted in the Ann Arbor newspapers as a "somewhat eccentric specimen." He spent time in his youth in a Fourierist colony at Alphadelphia, Michigan, and ended up as a judge in Kansas.

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