1811, MB Cambridge 1819, Fel Roy Astron Soc; naturalist, astronomer, meteorologist, author; eldest son of Thomas Furley Forster, Russian merchant and naturalist ; converted to Catholicism, 1824; friend of Sir Joseph Banks, John Herschel and William Whewell; credited with 35 papers in Roy Soc catalogue; with the mathematician B. Gompertz founded the Animals' Friend Soc, of which he was hon secretary when he retired to Bruges in the late 1820s; M Br Assn; attracted to GALL'S doctrine in 1806 and coined the word phrenology in 1815; acquainted with SPURZHEIM from 1815; first person to lecture on phrenology in Edinburgh (Wernerian Nat Hist Soc, 1816); M LONDON PHREN SOC from 1825. (DNB; MEB; Recueil de ma vie [1837])
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
418.1
— 418.1 MS: selection of letters from family papers, 1817-40. [Bodleian Lib, Oxford: MS Eng lett c200 fols 123-200] (Includes letters from SPURZHEIM and R. CARLILE.)
418.2
— 418.2 Essay on the Application of the Organology of the Brain to Education. Reprinted from the Pamphleteer, No. X. London: ND. Pp. 16. [Combe Coll, NLS]. (Preface says that it was written before SPURZHEIM was known in England.)
418.3
— 418.3 "Sketch of the New Anatomy and Physiology of the Brain and Nervous System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim considered as comprehending a complete system of Phrenology," Pamphleteer, 5 (1815): 219-44. Anatomy and Physiology of the Brain and Nervous System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim considered as comprehending a complete system of Zoonomy. With observations on its tendency to the improvement of Education, of Punishment, and of the Treatment of Insanity. Reprinted from the Pamphleteer with additions. London: Law & Whittaker,
418.5
— 418.5 "On the Physiology of Certain Disorders of Health founded on a Knowledge of the Proportionate Development and Functions of the Special Organs of the Mind," PHIL MAG & J, 45 (1815): 129-32.
418.6
— 418.6 "Essay on the Application of the Organology of the Brain to Education," Pamphleteer, 5 (1815): 473-86. (Also reprinted as a 16 page pamphlet.)
418.7
— 418.7 "Of Certain Causes which Render More Difficult the Discernment of the Character of the Mind from the Examination of the Organs of the Brain," PHIL MAG & J, 46 (1815): 9-11.
418.9
— 418.9 Observations on the Casual and Periodical Influence of Particular States of the Atmosphere on Human Health and Disease, Particularly Insanity. London: T & G Underwood, 1817. Pp. 89. (Dedicated to SPURZHEIM, from whom Forster learned to attribute to GALL the notion of the periodicity of certain mental phenomena.)
418.10
— 418.10 Observations on the Phenomena of Insanity. Being a supplement to Observations on the Casual and Periodical Influence of Peculiar States of the Atmosphere on Human Health and Disease. London: printed for T & G Underwood; Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, and Treuttel & Wurtz, Paris and Strasbourg, 1817. Reprinted in The Pamphleteer, 29 (1819): 99- 115. (Entirely phrenological.)
418.11
— 418.11 Somatopsychonoologia: showing that the proofs of body, life, and mind, considered as distinct essences, cannot be deduced from physiology, but depend on a distinct sort of evidence; being an examination of the controversy concerning life carried on by Laurence [sic], Abernethy, Rennell, and others. By Philostratus. London: R. Hunter, 1823. Pp. x +116. (2nd edn, Pamphleteer, 24 [1824]: 477-528; reviewed, PHREN J, 1 [1823]: 120-46.)
418.12
— 418.12 ["Cranioscopophilus"], "Phrenology: The Wernerian Society of Edinburgh, and the Phrenological Societies of Edinburgh and London," LANCET, 13 Jan 1827: 479-80. (Describes the divisions in Edinburgh society over phrenology prior to SPURZHEIM'S arrival.)
418.13
— 418.13 Eulogy of Shargs, an intelligent dog, belonging to Dr. T. Forster pronounced by his master. (Being a fragment of a larger work on the phrenology and reasoning possessed by animals.) [London: ?1838]. Pp. 8. (New ed., Brussels: Deltombe, 1840: Eulogy of Shargs... together with the life of Loski, a memoir in French, and other miscellanies.)
418.14
— 418.14 Observations on some curious and hitherto unnoticed abnormal affections of the organ of sense and intellect, and on other subjects of physiology. Tunbridge Wells: J. Colbram, 1841. Pp. 32.
418.15
— 418.15 A Collection of Letters on Early Education, and its influence in the Prevention of Crime. 2nd edn, London: Sherwood & Bowyer, 1844. Pp.
Editorial Information
Identifier
418.
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Person
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Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
140
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Original Transcription
418. FORSTER, Thomas Ignatius Maria (1789-1860), FLS 1811, MB
Cambridge 1819, Fel Roy Astron Soc; naturalist, astronomer, meteorologist, author; eldest son of Thomas Furley Forster, Russian merchant
and naturalist (1761-1825); converted to Catholicism, 1824; friend of
Sir Joseph Banks, John Herschel and William Whewell; credited with
35 papers in Roy Soc catalogue; with the mathematician B. Gompertz
founded the Animals' Friend Soc, of which he was hon secretary when
he retired to Bruges in the late 1820s; M Br Assn; attracted to
GALL'S doctrine in 1806 and coined the word phrenology in 1815;
acquainted with SPURZHEIM from 1815; first person to lecture on
phrenology in Edinburgh (Wernerian Nat Hist Soc, 1816); M LONDON
PHREN SOC from 1825. (DNB; MEB; Recueil de ma vie [1837])