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DESERET, Phineas

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Editorial Description

his name appears in the minute book of EDIN PHREN SOC from 18 Dec 1828, and as on its council, 1834; if this is the same person who published under the pseudonym of "Seedair" (as indicated by the copy in Edin UL where "P. DESERET" is penned in under "Seedair," then a major retreat must have occurred with the publication of G. COMBE'S works. It is not clear if the author of the first two entries below is this same as the "Seedair" author; the BL Catalogue mistakenly enters "Seedair" as the pseudo, for Phineas Deseret Leith.

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

297.1 — 297.1 [Abstract of Paper on the Function of the Organ of Language to LONDON PHREN SOC, 6 Dec 1843], ZOIST, 2 (Apr 1844): 21-30.
297.2 — 297.2 [Abstract of Paper on the Organ of Marvellous or Wonder to LONDON PHREN SOC, 17 Jan 1844], ZOIST 2 (Apr 1844): 30-2.
297.3 — 297.3 [under the pseudonym Stephen SEEDAIR], A Tract for all Time. The Christian or True Constitution of Man, versus The Pernicious Fallacies of Mr. Combe and other Materialistic Writers. Edin: Myles Macphail, 1856. Pp. 23. (6d)
297.4 — 297.4 The Christian or True Constitution of Man, Exposing the Fallacies of Mr. Combe's 'Constitution of Man' and of His Work 'On the Relation Between Science and Religion'. Edin: Myles Macphail, 1856. 2nd ed, 1858. Pp. 24. (6d) [Combe Coll, NLS]
297.5 — 297.5 The Limits of Instinct and the Range of Reason or A Chapter from a New System of Comparative Psychology. Edin: Myles Macphail; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1858. Pp. 24 (6d) [Edin UL]

Editorial Information

Identifier	297.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	102
Printed page	97
Database ID	948

Original Transcription

297. DESERET, Phineas, his name appears in the minute book of
EDIN PHREN SOC from 18 Dec 1828, and as on its council, 1834; if
this is the same person who published under the pseudonym of "Seedair" (as indicated by the copy in Edin UL where "P. DESERET" is
penned in under "Seedair," then a major retreat must have occurred
with the publication of G. COMBE'S works. It is not clear if the
author of the first two entries below is this same as the "Seedair"
author; the BL Catalogue mistakenly enters "Seedair" as the pseudo,
for Phineas Deseret Leith.