third son of Robert Cox, leather dresser of Geordie Mill, Edinburgh; nephew of G. and A. COMBE; co-ed PHREN J, 1830-7, 1841-7; intimate of Robert CHAMBERS; Writer to the Signet (lawyer), but did not practice and declined G. COMBE'S offer of his business upon. his retirement in 1836; compiled the index to the 22 vols of the 7th edn (1842) of the ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA; anti-sabbatarian writer and campaigner; secretary Liverpool Lit, Sci & Commerial Inst, 1836-40; lectured in Liverpool Lit & Phil Soc, 1837; defended phrenology against attack by A. HIGGINSON, 1838; M PHREN ASSN, 1840; sec EDIN PHREN SOC and present at its last meeting in Dec 1870. (DNB, MEB)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
260.1
— 260.1 "Cases of Deficient Perception of Colours," PHREN J, 7 (1831/2): 144-154.
260.2
— 260.2 "On the Character and Cerebral Development of the Esquimaux," PHREN J, 8 (1832/4): 288-308, 424-37.
260.3
— 260.3 "An Essay on the Character and Cerebral Development of Robert Burns. Read, on the 5th May 1834, before the Edinburgh Ethical Society for the Study and Practical Applications of Phrenology," PHREN J, 9 (1834/6): 52-74. Reprinted with Observations on the Skull of Burns by the late George Combe, Edin: A. Stewart, Phrenological Museum, 1859. Pp. 26 + plate.
260.5
— 260.5 "Observations on the Mutual Influence of the Mental Faculties, and, in Particular, on the Modes and Laws of the Activity of Distinctiveness," PHREN J, 9 (1834/6): 402-24, 498-504.
260.6
— 260.6 "Phrenology," CHRISTIAN PIONEER, 1 (1835): 15-21, 41-7, 93-100, 109-14, 167-75, 286-95, 311-15, 342-6, 382-9; vol 2 (1836): 36-44, 85-91, 136-43, 205-12. (First parts. offer a very detailed history; useful European background.)
260.7
— 260.7 Selections from the Phrenological Journal: comprising forty articles in the first five volumes, chiefly by George Combe, James Simpson and Dr. Andrew Combe. Edin: Maclachlan & Stewart; and John Anderson, 1836. Pp. 360.
260.8
— 260.8 "Remarks on the Laws of Action of Benevolence and Distinctiveness," PHREN J, 10 (1836/7): 1-14.
260.9
— 260.9 "Objections to Dr. Spurzheim's Classification and Nomenclatures of the Mental Faculties," PHREN J, 10 (1836/7): 154- 64.
260.10
— 260.10 "Notes on the Head and Character of Dr. Parr," PHREN J, 12 (1839): 159-61.
260.11
— 260.11 "A Correspondence [with W. WEIR] on the Name and Definition of the Faculty designated Destructiveness," PHREN J, 13 (1840): 29-53.
260.12
— 260.12 "Phrenological Illustrations from the Encyclopaedia Britannica," PHREN J, 13 (1840): 207-13.
260.13
— 260.13 "On the Character and Skull of Sir Thomas Browne," PHREN J, 18 (1845): 41-51.
260.14
— 260.14 "Intellectual Freedom--its Advocates and Opponents," PHREN J, 18 (1845): 226-30. (Counters ENGLEDUE'S idea of intellectual freedom.)
260.15
— 260.15 Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late Dr. Andrew Combe. Reprinted, with additions from Phrenological Journal, [20] October 1847 [pp. 373-405]. Edin: printed by P. NEILL & Co, 1847. Pp. 38.
Editorial Information
Identifier
260.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
90
Printed page
85
Database ID
842
Original Transcription
260. COX, Robert (1810-72), third son of Robert Cox, leather
dresser of Geordie Mill, Edinburgh; nephew of G. and A. COMBE;
co-ed PHREN J, 1830-7, 1841-7; intimate of Robert CHAMBERS;
Writer to the Signet (lawyer), but did not practice and declined G.
COMBE'S offer of his business upon. his retirement in 1836; compiled
the index to the 22 vols of the 7th edn (1842) of the ENCYCLOPAEDIA
BRITANNICA; anti-sabbatarian writer and campaigner; secretary
Liverpool Lit, Sci & Commerial Inst, 1836-40; lectured in Liverpool
Lit & Phil Soc, 1837; defended phrenology against attack by A.
HIGGINSON, 1838; M PHREN ASSN, 1840; sec EDIN PHREN SOC and
present at its last meeting in Dec 1870. (DNB, MEB)