Alfred Russel Wallace : Alfred Wallace : A. R. Wallace :
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
Discussion of 'On Craniology and Phrenology
in Relation to Ethnology' (S113a: 1865)
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: Third party rendering of words Wallace offered in discussion of
'On Craniology and Phrenology in Relation to Ethnology,' a paper by Dr. Cornelius Donovan
read at the Ethnological Society of London meeting of 4 July 1865. Later printed on page 97 of
Number Two of their Ethnological Journal series. To link directly to this page, connect with:
http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S113A.htm
Mr. Wallace, on being called on by the chairman, stated his disappointment that the paper
had scarcely touched the ethnological bearings of phrenology, the point of main interest to the
Society. At the same time he declared his own conviction, based on careful thought and
observation, that the main doctrines of phrenology were thoroughly sound, though he was by no
means prepared to go the lengths of its special supporters.
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