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BURNS, James Dawson (1835-1894)

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Born: 1835

Died: 1894

Editorial Description

plebeian publisher, spiritualist and controversialist; reached London from Ayrshire as a working gardener; vegetarian, teetotaller and ascetic; pioneer of the British Lyceums; ed HUMAN NATURE, which was devoted to physiology, the laws of health, spiritualism and phrenology; became involved with phrenology by assisting L. N. FOWLER during his British tours in the 1860s; progressed to spiritualism via mesmerism. Barrow, Independent Spirits [1986]: 102.) (L.

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

172.1 — 172.1 [Supplementary chapter to] G. S. WEAVER, Lectures on Mental Science, According to the Philosophy of Phrenology. Delivered before the Anthropological Society of the Western Liberal Institute of Marietta, Ohio in 1851. New edn, London: J. Burns, 1876. Pp. 152. (The 1st edn was published in 1852 by Fowler & Wells.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	172.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	49
Printed page	44
Database ID	426

Original Transcription

172. BURNS, James Dawson (1835-94), plebeian publisher, spiritualist and controversialist; reached London from Ayrshire as a working gardener; vegetarian, teetotaller and ascetic; pioneer of the
British Lyceums; ed HUMAN NATURE, which was devoted to physiology, the laws of health, spiritualism and phrenology; became involved with phrenology by assisting L. N. FOWLER during his British
tours in the 1860s; progressed to spiritualism via mesmerism.
Barrow, Independent Spirits [1986]: 102.)
(L.