Observations on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, and other atrocious murderers; measurements of the heads of the most notorious thieves confined in the Edinburgh Jail and Bridewell, and of various individuals, English, Scotch, and Irish, presenting an extensive series of facts subversive of phrenology / Read before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. By Thomas Stone.

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Observations on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare, and other atrocious murderers; measurements of the heads of the most notorious thieves confined in the Edinburgh Jail and Bridewell, and of various individuals, English, Scotch, and Irish, presenting an extensive series of facts subversive of phrenology / Read before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. By Thomas Stone. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Edinburgh : Published by Robert Buchanan ..., etc., 1829.

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2 unnumbered leaves, 75 pages : illustrations ; (8vo)

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Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities.

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