. Annals of medical history. On theseoccasions formal addresses were given byprominent citizens, among whom may bementioned Dr. Samuel G. Howe, who seemsto have taken a prominent part in thework of the society. During this periodGeorge Combe of Edinburgh visited thiscountry and gave lectures in New York,Philadelphia and Boston on the science of|)hrenoiogy. A piece of silver plate was dulypresented to him by friends of the society. The society continued in active operationuntil the year 1842. The novelty of the newscience was then wearing away. Other topicsof interest were coming forward and oc
. Annals of medical history. On theseoccasions formal addresses were given byprominent citizens, among whom may bementioned Dr. Samuel G. Howe, who seemsto have taken a prominent part in thework of the society. During this periodGeorge Combe of Edinburgh visited thiscountry and gave lectures in New York,Philadelphia and Boston on the science of|)hrenoiogy. A piece of silver plate was dulypresented to him by friends of the society. The society continued in active operationuntil the year 1842. The novelty of the newscience was then wearing away. Other topicsof interest were coming forward and occupy-ing a prcMiiincnt place and as Mr. Capensuggestively puts it, In a society of nearlyone hundred and lifty members there will always be some who injure the cause ofscientific investigation by their weakness,their want of sense, and by their tediousdissertations upon subjects they do notunderstand.^ But although the society ceased to existand the ridicule which had been heapedupon its teaching, so far as the location of. •fm^^m^Uibf .C^A C^ Loc;ilizaticin of tlic ct 1 nliii- .md (From a piililication which was probably issued bythe Phrenoloidcal Society.) the different functions of the brain wasconcerned, had become a tradition, we findas late as 1879, ^ paper on the brain by theHon. George H. Calvert of Newport, R. I.,in which the following significant statementw as made—From the discoveries of Galllegitimate deductions are that the brain isthe instrument of the mind: that the brainis not a single organ but a congeries oforgans, the function of each being toCapen, Naiuini, : Reminiscences of I^ New ^ork, 1881. Collection of tiiu Bosion Society manifest a primitive nu-ntal power offeeling or of intellect, etc. A little volume of the society lies beforeme, the title page of which is as follows:A Catalogue of Phrenological Specimensl^elonging to the Boston PhrenologicalSociety. Boston. Printed by John Ford1835. It conta
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