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EDINBURGH SOCIETY FOR AIDING THE DIFFUSION OF MORAL AND ECONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE

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Location: Edinburgh

Editorial Description

established in 1835 by COMBE and fellow phrenologists Sidney SMITH, W. B. HODGSON and James SIMPSON; succeeded in 1836 by the short-lived EDINBURGH ASSO- CIATION OF THE WORKING CLASSES FOR THEIR SOCIAL, INTEL- LECTUAL AND MORAL IMPROVEMENT. Modelled on the SDUK, it failed due to conflict of interest with the EDINBURGH ASSOCIATION FOR PROVIDING INSTRUCTION IN USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING SCIENCE. (

Editorial Information

Identifier	355.0
Type	Society
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	121
Printed page	116
Database ID	1134

Original Transcription

355.0 EDINBURGH SOCIETY FOR AIDING THE DIFFUSION OF MORAL
AND ECONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE, established in 1835 by COMBE and
fellow phrenologists Sidney SMITH, W. B. HODGSON and James
SIMPSON; succeeded in 1836 by the short-lived EDINBURGH ASSO-
CIATION OF THE WORKING CLASSES FOR THEIR SOCIAL, INTEL-
LECTUAL AND MORAL IMPROVEMENT. Modelled on the SDUK, it
failed due to conflict of interest with the EDINBURGH ASSOCIATION
FOR PROVIDING INSTRUCTION IN USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING
SCIENCE. (