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Periodical:The Popular Phrenologist
The Popular Phrenologist: cover of an issue
Summary:
Summary by:
Pat Deveney
Title:
Popular Phrenologist, The.
Subtitle:
A Journal of Mental Science and a Record of Human Nature.
Motto:
Know Thyself
Published:
1896-1904
Frequency:
Monthly
Location:
Brighton, then London, England.
Language:
English.
Editor(s):
Cranion (J. Millott Severn); J.P. Blackford;
Publisher(s):
S.C. Slade; L.N. Fowler & Co..
Description:

1/1, January 1896-December 1904. 16 pp., 1s. 6d. a year.

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 Annie Besant), histories and biographies of the those prominent in the movement, and above all attempts to establish phrenology as a science. The journal provided a regular Directory of Phrenologists practicing in Britain and carried advertisements for the Fowler Phrenological Institute in London which offered classes to those interested and sold its courses by correspondence as well (2p. 2s.). Advertised in Suggestion, September 1903.

Other Sources:Yale University; BL; Harvard University; University of Minnesota; UCLA Library, etc.
Issues:Popular Phrenologist V1-3 1896-98
Popular Phrenologist V4-6 1899-1901
Popular Phrenologist V7-9 1902-04