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1 Davies, Phrenology, Fad and Science.

2 Shapin, “Phrenological Knowledge and the Social Structure of Early Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh”, was published as a response to Cantor, “The Edinburgh Phrenology Debate: 1803–1823”.

3 Cooter, The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science; van Wyhe, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism.

4 See esp. Secord, Victorian Sensation; idem, Visions of Science.

5 McMahon, The Races of Europe; Manias, Race, Science, and the Nation; Bancel, David, and Thomas, The Invention of Race. For a pioneering history of race science that includes phrenology, see Stepan, The Idea of Race in Science, esp. chapter 2.

6 Saini, Superior.

7 The authoritative work is Augstein, James Cowles Prichard’s Anthropology; see also Stocking, Jr., “From Chronology to Ethnology”, in Prichard, Researches, ix–cx.

8 Prichard, “Abstract of a Comparative Review”.

9 Prichard, The Natural History of Man, 132–3.

10 Prichard, “On the Recent Progress of Ethnology”.

11 Edwards was also absent from Paris and therefore the Société in the several months before his death.

12 Renneveille, Le langage des crânes, 55, 262.