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DEAN, Amos (1803-1868)

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Born: 1803

Died: 1868

Editorial Description

educator and organizer of Young Men's Assn of Albany New York, 1833; a Presbyterian; occupied the chair of med jurisprudence, Albany Med Coll, 1838; turned to phrenology in 1830; delivered 8 Lectures on Phrenology before the Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement of the City of Albany (1834; reviewed PHREN J, 9 [1834/6]: 302-9); wrote a 7 volume History of Civilization (1863). (DAB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

291.1 — 291.1 'Will', PHREN J, 10 (1836/7): 633-53.
291.2 — 291.2 "Examination of the Functions ascribed to Inhabitiveness and Concentrativeness, and of their Claims to the Rank of Primitive Faculties," PHREN J, 12 (1839): 223-35. .

Editorial Information

Identifier	291.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	101
Printed page	96
Database ID	937

Original Transcription

291. DEAN, Amos (1803-68), educator and organizer of Young Men's
Assn of Albany New York, 1833; a Presbyterian; occupied the chair
of med jurisprudence, Albany Med Coll, 1838; turned to phrenology
in 1830; delivered 8 Lectures on Phrenology before the Young Men's
Association for Mutual Improvement of the City of Albany (1834; reviewed PHREN J, 9 [1834/6]: 302-9); wrote a 7 volume History of
Civilization (1863). (DAB)