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HAWKINS, John Isaac (1772-1855)

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Born: 1772

Died: 1855

Editorial Description

civil engineer; son of Isaac Hawkins of Taunton; lived for many years in Bordentown, New Jersey, where in 1852 he started the Journal of Human Nature and Human Progress; MICE 1824 and a consulting engineer in London, 1816-49, before returning to New York; invented, among other curiosities, the ever-pointed pencil; a Swedenborgian; M Br Assn; with EPPS established in 1835 the Common Good Soc (EPPS described him as "more enthusiastic than intelligent"); pres Kentish Town Mechanics' Lit & Sci Inst, 1836; first became interested in phrenology in 1815; treasurer LONDON PHREN SOC until 1842 when he established and presided over the CHRISTIAN PHREN SOC; M PHREN ASSN, 1839; lectured on phrenology to many London insts in the 1830s and 1840s. (MEB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

521.1 — 521.1 "Phrenology--on making use of certain natural fixed points and distances in the human head, in order to assist in estimating the phrenological development. Read at a meeting of the Anthropological Society, March 24, 1836," CHRIST PHYS & ANTHROP MAG, 1 (1836): 278-88.
521.2 — 521.2 "Address to the Anthropological Society, June 23, 1836," CHRIST PHYS & ANTHROP MAG, 1 (1836): 261-4. (The Society was for persons interested in phrenology and in investigating the laws of the Creator in relation to man.)
521.3 — 521.3 "Annual Address [on phrenology]," CHRIST PHYS & ANTHROP MAG, 2 (1837): 205-12.
521.4 — 521.4 "A Phrenological Account of James C. B. Hawkins. Read at a meeting of the [London] Anthropological Society of London, May 26, 1836," CHRIST PHYS & ANTHROP MAG, 2 (1836): 83-92, 116-9, 149-55. Read in part at the LONDON PHREN SOC, 19 April 1830 and published as:
521.5 — 521.5 "A sketch of the Life of James C. B. Hawkins," PHREN J, 7 (1831/2): 14-25.
521.6 — 521.6 "On the Difficulties Experienced in the Study of Phrenology (Read at a Meeting of the London Phren Society, April 6th 1840)," PHREN J, 13 (1840): 231-9.
521.7 — 521.7 "On Measuring and Recording the Phrenological Development of the Head," PHREN ALMANAC, 1 (1842): 40-4. (First printed in part in "Phrenological Association," LANCET, 24 July 1841: 621-2.)
521.8 — 521.8 "Address delivered to the Christian Phrenological Society, March 1, 1843. By the President John Isaac Hawkins," PHREN J, 16 (1843): 142-8.

Editorial Information

Identifier	521.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	167
Printed page	162
Database ID	1543

Original Transcription

521. HAWKINS, John Isaac (1772-1855), civil engineer; son of Isaac
Hawkins of Taunton; lived for many years in Bordentown, New Jersey,
where in 1852 he started the Journal of Human Nature and Human
Progress; MICE 1824 and a consulting engineer in London, 1816-49,
before returning to New York; invented, among other curiosities,
the ever-pointed pencil; a Swedenborgian; M Br Assn; with EPPS
established in 1835 the Common Good Soc (EPPS described him as
"more enthusiastic than intelligent"); pres Kentish Town Mechanics'
Lit & Sci Inst, 1836; first became interested in phrenology in 1815;
treasurer LONDON PHREN SOC until 1842 when he established and
presided over the CHRISTIAN PHREN SOC; M PHREN ASSN, 1839;
lectured on phrenology to many London insts in the 1830s and 1840s.
(MEB)