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On inheritance of hair and eye colour / by John Brownlee.

Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences / by Francis Galton.

Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences.

The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Character as seen in body and parentage : with notes on education, marriage, change in character, and morals / by Furneaux Jordan.

Grosse Männer

Grosse männer, studien zur biologie des genies, hrsg. von W. Ostwald

xx, 466 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 25 cm.

Zur geschichte der wissenschaften und der gelehrten seit zwei jahrhunderten : nebst anderen studien über wissenschaftliche gegenstände insbesondere über vererbung und selektion beim menschen / von Alphonse de Candolle ... deutsch hrsg. von Wilhelm Ostwald.

Eugenics laboratory lecture series

University of London. Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics. Eugenics lecture series

26 pages ; 6 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 26 cm.

The right of the unborn child : being a lecture delivered on November 13, 1926, to teachers from the London County Council Schools / by Karl Pearson.

Heredity : its relations to human development / correspondence between Elizabeth Thompson and Loring Moody.

<p>Three perspectives of skulls in centre showing phrenological classifications of the faculties of the brain. Three busts at top, left to right: Johann Christoph Spurzheim, Franz Joseph Gall and George Combe. Portraits, from top left downwards, then top right downwards: "Scott. Napoleon. Lord Bacon. Byron. Franklin. Shakspeare". Skulls from middle left anti-clockwise: "Caucasian. Mongolian. Negro. Cat. Ouran-outang. Idiot. Baboon. Dog. New Hollander. India. Carib."</p>

1 print : lithograph ; border 49.6 x 36.4 cm

Phrenological chart with portraits of historical figures and illustrations of skulls exhibiting racial characteristics. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley, authored by C. Donovan, c. 1850.

<p>A skull from Gall's own collection. Ackerknecht and Vallois ('Franz Joseph Gall, inventor of phrenology and his collection', Wisconsin 1956), comment that Georget based his essays on legal medicine on the same cases as Gall examined phrenologically: Lecouffe's name is mentioned (pp. 40, 43; her skull is described and analysed on p. 76)</p>

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On inheritance of hair and eye colour / by John Brownlee.

Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences / by Francis Galton.

Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences.

The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Character as seen in body and parentage : with notes on education, marriage, change in character, and morals / by Furneaux Jordan.

Zur geschichte der wissenschaften und der gelehrten seit zwei jahrhunderten : nebst anderen studien über wissenschaftliche gegenstände insbesondere über vererbung und selektion beim menschen / von Alphonse de Candolle ... deutsch hrsg. von Wilhelm Ostwald.

The right of the unborn child : being a lecture delivered on November 13, 1926, to teachers from the London County Council Schools / by Karl Pearson.

Heredity : its relations to human development / correspondence between Elizabeth Thompson and Loring Moody.

Phrenological chart with portraits of historical figures and illustrations of skulls exhibiting racial characteristics. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley, authored by C. Donovan, c. 1850.

The skull of a widow named Lecouffe, who incited her son to murder an old woman, their protector, for her money. Lithograph, c. 1835.

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On inheritance of hair and eye colour / by John Brownlee.

Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences / by Francis Galton.

Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences.

The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Character as seen in body and parentage : with notes on education, marriage, change in character, and morals / by Furneaux Jordan.

Zur geschichte der wissenschaften und der gelehrten seit zwei jahrhunderten : nebst anderen studien über wissenschaftliche gegenstände insbesondere über vererbung und selektion beim menschen / von Alphonse de Candolle ... deutsch hrsg. von Wilhelm Ostwald.

The right of the unborn child : being a lecture delivered on November 13, 1926, to teachers from the London County Council Schools / by Karl Pearson.

Heredity : its relations to human development / correspondence between Elizabeth Thompson and Loring Moody.

Phrenological chart with portraits of historical figures and illustrations of skulls exhibiting racial characteristics. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley, authored by C. Donovan, c. 1850.

The skull of a widow named Lecouffe, who incited her son to murder an old woman, their protector, for her money. Lithograph, c. 1835.

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