cashier at Commercial Bank, Newcastle; M PHREN ASSN, opposed to the materialists; lectured on phrenology in Newcastle to large crowds, 1841-2; ran a private phrenology museum.
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
388.1
— 388.1 Phrenology Illustrated in a Series of Profiles by J. H. Mole from the Collection of Casts Contributed to the Polytechnic Exhibition Newcastle, with explanatory descriptions by Alexander Falkner. Newcastle: printed, 1840. Pp. 9. [Newc Pub Lib] (Reviewed PHREN J, 13 [1840]: 382-3.)
388.2
— 388.2 "Introduction to the Study of Phrenology [lecture to Newcastle Popular Lecture Soc, June 1841]," PHREN ALMANAC, 1 (1842): 1-16, and 2 (1843): 3-16.
388.3
— 388.3 "Case of Inability to Perceive Colors," PHREN ALMANAC, 1 (1842): 24-5.
388.4
— 388.4 "Materialism and Immaterialism; or a few words upon the late movements among the members of the Phrenological Associa tion," PHREN ALMANAC, 2 (1843): 39-41.
Editorial Information
Identifier
388.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
135
Printed page
130
Database ID
1260
Original Transcription
388. FALKNER, Alexander, cashier at Commercial Bank, Newcastle;
M PHREN ASSN, opposed to the materialists; lectured on phrenology
in Newcastle to large crowds, 1841-2; ran a private phrenology museum.