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SMITH, Sidney

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Editorial Description

itinerant phrenologist of Edin; M EDIN PHREN SOC and on council of EDIN ETHICAL SOC; turned more to politics, social reform and to writing on emigration in the 1840s; lectured on phrenology in major Scottish centres, North of England, 1836-8; also lectured on repeal of Corn Laws and on temperance, often incorporating such items as "improvements in agriculture" into his phrenology lectures to draw larger crowds.

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

1048.1 — 1048.1 "Phrenological Development of Alexander Miller," PHREN J, 10 (1836/7): 664-71.
1048.2 — 1048.2 "Correspondence with the Editor of the Phrenological Journal [in connection with the editors' snobbery]," PHREN J, 10 (1836/7): 658-64.
1048.3 — 1048.3 The Principles of Phrenology. Edin: W. Tait, 1838. Pp. 223. (Reviewed PHREN J, 12 [1839]: 76-91, saw "much to censure.") 2nd edn: Including a preliminary chapter on the punishment of death, and the doctrine of moral necessity. London: John Kendrick, 1849. Pp. 223. (5s 6d)
1048.4 — 1048.4 The Punishment of Death, and Moral Responsibility, with Casts of the Head of J. B. Rush. London: John Kendrick, 1838; 2nd edn 1849. Pp. 12.

Editorial Information

Identifier	1048.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	310
Printed page	305
Database ID	2934

Original Transcription

1048. SMITH, Sidney, itinerant phrenologist of Edin; M EDIN PHREN
SOC and on council of EDIN ETHICAL SOC; turned more to politics,
social reform and to writing on emigration in the 1840s; lectured on
phrenology in major Scottish centres, North of England, 1836-8; also
lectured on repeal of Corn Laws and on temperance, often incorporating such items as "improvements in agriculture" into his phrenology
lectures to draw larger crowds.