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From Pat Deveney's database:
Popular Phrenologist, The. While the title appears today to be an oxymoron, the journal endured for 9 years with a mixture of delineations of the skulls of the famous (including |
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| Yale University; BL; Harvard University; University of Minnesota; UCLA Library, etc. | |
| Popular Phrenologist V1-V3 1896-1898 | |
| Popular Phrenologist V4-V6 1899-1901 | |
| Popular Phrenologist V7-V9 1902-1904 | |
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Read across 1896–1902, The Popular Phrenologist is a late-Victorian British popular-phrenology magazine — the practical, general-reader wing of the tradition in its final active period. Its content is the cerebral organs and named faculties, craniology, and the commercial apparatus of practical head-reading, carried in an accessible popular register. It shows the practical phrenology tradition still working for a British public at the turn of the century, keeping head-reading alive as popular self-knowledge even as its scientific standing collapsed. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| New Thought | Phrenology and Physiognomy | Theosophy |
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