An essay on craniology, being the substance of a paper submitted to the Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds, December 2, 1825 / By Richard Winter Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, Richard Winter, 1794-1848.
Date:
1826
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Credit: An essay on craniology, being the substance of a paper submitted to the Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds, December 2, 1825 / By Richard Winter Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    adhesiveness shall still grapple me to my friends, whether their heads be circular, projected on a plane or tapering to a cone, small or large, elevated or oblong. Nay, my luove of Offspring is so I passionately intense, that I will not, I cannot, be, a party in transmitting such a distorted mischievous fable to posterity ! POSTSCRIPT. In a former part of tlie preceding essay a refe¬ rence is made to a Jean de Rhetan. He is stated by me to have lived about the sixteenth century. I have since obtained, through the medium of a most excellent friend, a notice of this curious work. Part of my statement was inaccurate, but the inaccuracy only establishes a fortiori, the more certain copyism of this visionary scheme. It was (I gladly correct myself) included in a collection of Medical Tracts, published by a Petrus de Montagnana. It is in Latin, and was printed by the Gregories, in the year fifteen hundred, March twenty» eight, at Venice. It is JSlarft ^LtUtv, and has all the venerable air of that period of typography. The particularity of the title is this:—“ Incipit fasciculus medicinge compositus per excellentissimum Artium ac Medicine doc-