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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: Verywell Mind - What is Phrenology in Psychology? | Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - A brief history of our desire to peer into the brain. | Dec 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Neuroanatomy - Franz Joseph Gall on the Cerebellum as the Organ for the Reproductive Drive. | Sep 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Edinburgh - UncoverED - Phrenology and Edinburgh. | Aug 09, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Get your head read: the 19th century fringe science of phrenology. | Jun 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - Phrenology in Victorian America. | Mar 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - History of Phrenology (PDF). | Oct 09, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Carnegie Mellon University - Encyclopedia of the History of Science - Phrenology. | Jul 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Phrenology and Physiognomy in Victorian Literature. | Mar 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Edinburgh - Phrenology and Edinburgh. | Feb 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pilgrim Hall Museum - The "First Family" of Phrenology. | Dec 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Puget Sound - Sound Ideas - History of Phrenology. | Nov 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Missouri Libraries - Phrenology. | Sep 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Simply Psychology - Phrenology: The Study of Skull Shape and Behavior. | Jun 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Carnegie Mellon University - Encyclopedia of the History of Science - Phrenology. | Apr 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Verywell Mind - What is Phrenology in Psychology? | Mar 09, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology. | Jan 26, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia - Phrenology. | Dec 16, 2022 | ||
| Changed "Viennese" to "German" in reference to Franz-Joseph Gall. | May 01, 2018 | ||
| Added an image showing a phrenology chart of the skull, a photo showing a practitioner of phrenology measuring the bumps on a boy's head to assess his future, and a photo of German physician Johann Kaspar Spurzheim. | Jan 26, 2012 | ||
| Added new Web site: Northern Illinois University Anthropology Museum - Phrenology. | Jun 17, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Victorian Web - The History of Phrenology. | Jun 17, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 04, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Skeptic's Dictionary - Phrenology. | Apr 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: LHOON - The History of Phrenology. | Apr 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Victorian Web - Phrenology. | Apr 10, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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