Entry on Johann Gaspar Spurzheim in Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum, volume one

Entry on Johann Gaspar Spurzheim in Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum, volume one

Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832

Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. (Nathaniel Bradstreet), 1810-1874

Warren Anatomical Museum

Skull

Phrenology

Pseudoscience

The entry notes the cataloged skull of Johann Gaspar Spurzheim donated in 1848. Originally, the skull had been part of the Boston Phrenological Society, an organization founded on Spurzheim's birthday to continue the practice of Phrenology. The organization shortly ended after a lose in followers and finances. Spurzheim's skull is cataloged under the number 1125 and then later changed to 3562 after the Warren Anatomical Museum re-cataloged their collection to be categorically instead of chronological.

Description of Johann Gaspar Spurzheim in the Warren Anatomical Museum Manuscript Catalogue, Volume One.

Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. (Nathaniel Bradstreet), 1810-1874 or would it be JBS?

1868-1870

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Warren Anatomical Museum Records, Series 00012: II. Collection Registration Records, 1835-1996, undated., 1835-1996,r, box 13

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1125. 3562. Original cast of the cranium of Dr. Spurzheim; taken by Dr. S., and presented by him to the College of Museum. -1848- Dr. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff