fishing tackle manufacturer; leading phrenologist of Aberdeen and founder, in 1836 of the ABERDEEN PHREN SOC and its pres, 1842; M PHREN ASSN; main preoccupation was with classifying heads or the "mathematics of phrenology"; lectured in Manchester Athenaeum, Dec 1851 on the "utility of phrenology in religious enquiries." (MEB) Pp. W. Russel, 1845. 65-72; and ZOIST, 3 COMBE, R. COX et al.,
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
1083.1
— 1083.1 Contributions to the Mathematics of Phrenology, chiefly intended to aid Students. Aberdeen: 35. (Reviewed, PHREN J, 19 [1846]: [Jan 1845]: 441-6.) Reprinted in G. Moral and Intellectual Science Applied to the Elevation of Society. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1848: 167-202.
1083.2
— 1083.2 "[Further] Contributions to the Mathematics of Phrenology," ZOIST, 4 (Apr 1846): 60-8.
1083.3
— 1083.3 "Cerebral Development and Character of Catherine Davidson alias Mrs. Humphry, who was executed at Aberdeen, 8th October 1830, for the Murder of her Husband," PHREN J, 19 (1846): 153.
1083.4
— 1083.4 "The Smallest Head--'General Tom Thumb,' " PHREN J, 19 (1846): 247-9.
1083.5
— 1083.5 "Additional Contributions to the Mathematics of Phrenology, including a reply to an article on Phrenology in the British Quarterly Review for November 1846," PHREN J, 20 (1847): 36-48.
1083.6
— 1083.6 "Notes on the Ordinary Method of Estimating Cerebral Development," ZOIST, 6 (Oct 1848): 291-304, and 7 (Apr 1849): 53-64. Separately published by Walton & Mitchell, London.
1083.7
— 1083.7 Researches in Cerebral Development to Discover the Average and Variety of Size, and form of the Human Head at all Ages. (Extracted from the ZOIST for Jan 1851 [pp. 396- 430] and contains another 12 pages from ZOIST Oct 1848.) London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1851. Pp. 35. (Attempts to make his research as thorough as geology.)
1083.8
— 1083.8 "The Correspondence between the Characters and Heads of the two murderers [Emmanuel Bathelemy and Luigi Buranelli] lately executed at Newgate. With an introduction and conclusion by Dr. Elliotson," ZOIST, 13 (July 1855): 202-18.
Editorial Information
Identifier
1083.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
322
Printed page
317
Database ID
3034
Original Transcription
1083. STRATON, James (d. 1856), fishing tackle manufacturer; leading phrenologist of Aberdeen and founder, in 1836 of the ABERDEEN
PHREN SOC and its pres, 1842; M PHREN ASSN; main preoccupation
was with classifying heads or the "mathematics of phrenology"; lectured in Manchester Athenaeum, Dec 1851 on the "utility of phrenology
in religious enquiries." (MEB)
Pp.
W. Russel, 1845. 65-72; and ZOIST, 3
COMBE, R. COX et al.,