For example, Dr. Mortimer, a man Holmes and Watson befriend and refer to as a fellow man of science, is an expert in phrenology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle] Reference

The son is a clever young man, and has read a good deal; pleasant, too, in society; but tampers with phrenology, which is unworthy of his father's son.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

I had to look up "phrenology" too, Doc. fps = can be too much of a good thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sorrowful Tale of High Velocity] Reference

Consequently, there was a rise in various pseudo-sciences such as phrenology, sexology, and eugenics.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Whitman to Wilde: A Cultural Perspective on Individualism at the Fin de Si�cle] Reference

Post-phrenology, that is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » More Sopranos Blogging] Reference

I believe as little in phrenology as in palm-reading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Certain Success] Reference

If there be truth in phrenology he is a man above the common.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest] Reference

When Mr. Combe was lecturing on phrenology at the Museum building in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

I believe that phrenology has blazed the way for this new psychology.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

I look upon phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

The ancient science of phrenology would classify all of them as freaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faces] Reference

Here Professor gives a little lecture on phrenology, impelled thereto by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

One of their techniques was phrenology, measuring heads for so-called Aryan features.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

I was just Googling around and I came across it because I knew phrenology and genetic typing and profiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology Of David Byrne] Reference

"What benefits do you claim, Professor, to result from the practice of phrenology as applied to matrimony?".    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

Thomson, who was rather given to be cynical in his remarks, and was besides addicted to the study of phrenology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

These claim that phrenology is a practical and important science and that it rests upon the following principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

Andrew Carnegie said: "Not to know phrenology is sure to keep you standing on the 'Bridge of Sighs' all your life.".    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

One wonders how fuzzy the line is between phrenology and genetic profiling, which seems in the not too distant future.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemology Of David Byrne] Reference

The belief in the biological concept of "race" is the seemingly immortal brother of long-since discredited "phrenology.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Francis L. Holland: Why the "Race" Word is Wrong] Reference

Hmm. Joe Klein, arbiter of "the quality of minds" -- I believe in the 19th century that practice was known as phrenology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Klein Responds To Bob Shrum's Broadside] Reference

Of phrenology I have heard such conflicting opinions that only my own small experience would satisfy me of its general truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England] Reference

I trust that the inevitable march of science will compel us to abandon the word "race" as we abandoned the word "phrenology.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Francis L. Holland: Why the "Race" Word is Wrong] Reference

The Round Book composes sentences from texts about phrenology into a representation of the geology below Field 4239 (of alfalfa).    From Wordnik.com.  [Negative Atlas] Reference

The controversy over phrenology has served undoubtedly the very useful purpose of stimulating research into the anatomy of the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

"I shall exhibit these crania at the free lectures and demonstrate the scientific principle upon which phrenology rests," continued the.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

His Catholicism no more alienates him from modern life than Wallace's profound belief in phrenology puts him beyond the pale of science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference

These questions, involving among other things the infant and difficult science of phrenology, Dr Prichard has left very much to conjecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference

The conversation took a physiological turn; and gradually the modern science of phrenology, which was just then becoming fashionable, came on the carpet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

How could a person be more healthy, happy and successful than by normally and harmoniously developing all his faculties as phrenology points them out to him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

For several years the citizens of Memphis have not had an opportunity to hear a discussion of the principles of the science of phrenology, or character reading.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

The popularity of phrenology has waned in the public mind, and cultivation of the system is confined to a few enthusiasts, such as pose as teachers of it as a vocation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

Perhaps there is no branch of the science of phrenology which has received such crude treatment at the hands of phrenological writers as this subject of organic quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

For some time before that I studied phrenology and practiced law, but in later years I have devoted all my time to the active practice of that which I have now made my profession.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference