The observations of the craniologist are continually liable to error. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12] Reference
On October 19 Tranzschel summoned Leipzig forensic expert and craniologist Wilhelm His to the excavation site. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Nature had designed it, and the entire absence of hair upon his high, gleaming crown enabled the craniologist to detect, without difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [The Sins of Séverac Bablon] Reference
He slays Herman, the craniologist, who dwelt by the linden-shadowed Elbe, and measured with his eye the skulls of all who walked through the streets of Berlin. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1] Reference
It was of a man in the prime of life, with the sutures scarcely closed, and only two teeth lacking, and none unsound, and I sent it on to the great craniologist, who replied with warm thanks. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of a Journalist]
But Mr. Coleridge immediately shielded the craniologist under the distinction preserved in the text, and perhaps, since that time, there may be a couple of organs assigned to the latter faculty. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
A place here; but it is recommended to the natural historian, by the descriptions which Cuvier has added to the engravings of animals; and to the craniologist, by the observations of Gall, on the engravings of human skulls. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson] Reference
Kidd) relative standards of living, or even the usual material accompaniments of what we call an advanced civilization; it is a question for the trained anthropologist and the craniologist rather than for the casual observer of men and manners. From Wordnik.com. [Across China on Foot] Reference
Why, then, has no craniologist told us that the monkey’s brain lacks precisely those tracts which are concerned with speech or with aphasia? (. From Wordnik.com. [The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour] Reference
As a specimen for the craniologist, Red. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830] Reference
Chesterfield County defines a fortuneteller as: "any person or establishment engaged in the occupation of occult sciences, including a fortuneteller, palmist, astrologist, numerologist, clairvoyant, craniologist, phrenologist, card reader, spiritual reader, tea-leaf reader, prophet, psychic or adviser or who in any other manner claims or pretends to tell fortunes or claims or pretends to disclose mental faculties of individuals for any form of compensation.". From Wordnik.com. [News for Richmond Times-Dispatch] Reference
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