CraniologySkulls vary in size and shape, and the term craniology is applied to the study of these variations.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull] Reference

And thus was born phrenology (then called craniology).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bayblab] Reference

Frenchmen, on craniology, which is exceedingly interesting, but full of difficulty, and giving very diverse indications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

"Does it not concern you that we are of differing opinions when it comes to craniology?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul] Reference

Whether their skull indicates this by the modern principles of craniology, or not, I cannot say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

This introduced, I cannot tell how, some remarks on the head, which led to a disquisition on craniology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827] Reference

There has been far too much emphasis on the importance of craniology in anthropology; I myself have been guilty of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul] Reference

He left behind him a manuscript book full of abtruse theories, proving by phrenology, by craniology, and even by mathematics, that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

He does not think very much of the books primarily devoted to a discussion of the conflicting opinions on craniology and psychology of the natives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

Establishing the Anthropological Society of Paris in 1859, of which he was secretary till his death, he was practically the inventor of the modern science of craniology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

My friend, a genetisist and anthropologist, once was at scientific conference in Columbia university and shown his results in ethnic craniology to his american collegue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Academia, Harvard Law School, and freedom of speech] Reference

In his last years Broca turned from his labours in the region of craniology to the exclusive study of the brain, in which his greatest triumphs were achieved (see APHASIA).    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

One of the towers is used as an observatory, and another part of the palace by the “Accademia reale di Medicina,” who here hold their meetings, and have also a museum of craniology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Traditionally, treatment for brain aneurysms required an open craniology.    From Wordnik.com.  [phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed] Reference

Lewes meandered off into somewhat abstruse speculation with regard to the significance of craniology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder] Reference

But the march of craniology or phrenology, by whatever name it is called, is directly the reverse of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference

Another had a strange notion of how to spell craniology, for he wrote "Chonology is the science of the brane.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"] Reference

The general came in for a few minutes, he said, to escape from two young ladies, who had talked him half dead about craniology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 10] Reference

But craniology reduces this to almost nothing, and exhibits us for the most part as the helpless victims of a blind and remorseless destiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference

In fact, individual differences, so numerous and so irregular as to prevent methodical enumeration, constitute the stumbling-block of ethnic craniology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants] Reference

The label on one of the skulls in the Munich Collection, “Etruscan-Tyrol, or Inca-Peruvian,” characterizes not too unfairly the present state of ethnological craniology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference

To what extent craniology or the modern anthropology can more accurately determine the affinity-relationship of the Samoyed to other tribes, is still a question of the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

I do not think we shall have any very safe basis for that ethnological craniology which aspires to give the anatomical characters of the crania of the different Races of Mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Some Fossil Remains of Man] Reference

There is a distinction, not unworthy to be attended to, that is here to be made between Lavater's system of physiognomy, and Gall's of craniology, which is much in favour of the former.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference

I would say of craniology, as I have already said of physiognomy, that there is such a science attainable probably by man, but that we have yet made scarcely any progress in the acquiring it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference

He was about sixty years of age, of the middle stature, but thin and meagre, like most of his countrymen; he had a villainously-formed head, according to all the rules of craniology, and his features were full of evil expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent, for when Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland's skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hound of the Baskervilles] Reference

That he had some acquaintance with the subject may be presumed from this, that, at so early a stage of such inquiries, he had published a work on human craniology, supported by measurement of heads selected from all varieties of the human species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiographical Sketches] Reference

To what extent craniology or modern anthropology can more accurately determine the affinity-relationship of the Samoyed to other tribes, is still a question of the future.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland’s skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hound of the Baskervilles] Reference

To what extent craniology or modern anthropology can more accurately determine the affinity-relationship of the Samoyed to other tribes, is still a question of the future. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03] Reference

With the aid of craniology.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference

Mesty lectures upon craniology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Midshipman Easy] Reference

Now are craniology and you upon your trial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Put Yourself in His Place] Reference

7. craniology.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference