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FIRST QUARTER OF A CENTURY OF 
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHRENOLOGrY. 
From the earliest days of Phrenology in America, reckoning 
fr< 'in about 1884, persons have been anxious to learn what they 
could theoretically and practically in respect to the science of 
the human mind as developed by phrenology, physiology and 
physiognomy. Classes were formed as early as 1885, and from 
that day onward, every year, the Fowler Bros., and their sister 
Charlotte Fowler Wells, had classes in different sections of the 
country where they happened to be lecturing, and especially 
in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. In these classes pu- 
pils were taught the location of the organs and how to estimate 
mental development and read character on phrenological prin- 
ciples. The temperaments and the quality of the constitution 
were marked topics of study. As the result of such classes, 
several persons became public lecturers and successful practi- 
tioners of phrenology. Many others, who were business men, 
acquired sufficient knowledge to estimate their customers and 
know how to adapt themselves to strangers. Many mothers 
and teachers became interested and pretty well versed in the 
subject, and thus, in a quiet way, rills of influence were started, 
which have widened and strengthened until a public sentiment 
in favor of Phrenology has been very widely extended. 
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In 1849, after ten years of traveling1 and lecturing, Nelson 
Sizer was invited to become a co-worker in the office of Fowler 
& Wells of New York, and devoted his time mainly to the pro- 
fessional department. Classes were organized for instruction, 
and. as previously, the citizens became members, and many 
thus acquired considerable facility in applying the subject. 
The announcement of these cour&es of lectures attracted persons 
from a distance who were trying, without much previous study, 
to lecture and present phrenology to the public, and they 
would come into such classes and take a few lessons, perhaps 
three or four, in some cases, one, simply that they might be 
able to advertise that they had received instruction from us, 
and thereby unfairly secure the confidence of the public. Some 
of these did poor work, which was a damage to the cause and to 
those who were supposed to have been their teachers. 
Accordingly the leading friends of Phrenology, deprecating 
the lack of knowledge on the part of some who were lecturing, 
resolved to establish an Institute in order that the public might 
be supplied with lecturers and examiners who had enjoyed op- 
portunities for careful instruction in the principles of phreno- 
logical science. These friends applied for an act, incorporating 
the American Institute of Phrenology, which was passed by the 
Legislature of the State of New York, April 20th, 1865, the 
Charter giving the right to hold real estate to the amount of 
one hundred thousand dollars, to collect and keep for public ex- 
hibition, a museum of busts, casts, skulls, and portraits, illus- 
trating phrenology and physiology, and also to instruct pupils 
aud grant diplomas. 
In the month of January, 1868, the first class under this char- 
ter was taught in New York. That class consisted of sis mem- 
bers. The second class, that of 1867, had fourteen students, sev- 
eral of whom were connected with professional work in other 
departments, such as teaching and literature. One of the stu- 
dents of that class, Duncan McDonald, has become widely 
known as a successful lecturer on Phrenology in the Western 
country, and has made in his profession a handsome fortune. FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. 
The Institute has graduated, in all, 450 students, which aver- 
ages nineteen a year from the commencement. The class for 
1889 numbered forty-six, though two of these had previously 
graduated and were taking a second course. 
In looking at the history of Yale College from its commence- 
ment in 1701 up to 1874, a term of 173 years, we find that during 
the term of its first president, six years, five classes were gradu- 
ated, numbering in all sixteen persons, which was a fraction 
over three for each year. From 1707 to 1719, covering W elve 
years, there were sixty students graduated, which averaged five 
in a year; from 1719 to 1723 there were four classes, and they 
graduated thirty-six students, an average of nine a year; from 
1733 to 1735 there were two classes, Avith twenty-nine students, 
and the whole number of graduates of Yale College for the first 
173 years, up to 1874, amounted to 8404, which is 49 a year. We 
may congratulate ourselves on this showing, for Yale College 
during its first twenty-four years, graduated but 141 students, 
which is less than six a year, and we, during twenty-three 
years, have graduated 450 students, or 19 a year. If our Insti- 
tute could have the fostering assistance of the general public, 
and rich endowments to enlarge the field of culture in any 
measure approximating to that which has fostered Yale College, 
the study of Human Nature, mentally and physically the most 
important of all studies, might become as prosperous and quite 
as prolific of good results as have blessed the history of Yale. 
When the public come to consider that man is the greatest 
factor in the created universe, that a knowledge of mind and 
character, and the culture of the human race in all that 
belongs to self-knowledge and self-improvement, must be the 
first and highest line of human inquiry, schools, that are estab- 
lished for the promulgation of such knowledge, will then be en- 
dowed and sustained, Avill be fostered and encouraged as liber- 
ally, and we trust more successfully, than the famed institutions 
of learning with which the world is to-day blessed. 
To Phrenology and its literature is the world indebted for 
many of the reforms which have been developed within the last 4 
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eighty years, filtrating, as they do, through public law and pub- 
lic opinion in regard to personal health, sanitary improvements 
and the emancipation of the laboring world. The Phrenologic 
al works have especially carried reform into the realm of diet, 
into laws and usages on health subjects, the protection of chil- 
dren, the opening to woman of broader and more generous cul 
ture, her introduction to the medical profession, giving her a 
desire for a better definition of her duties and privileges a.s a 
member of the social fabric, and to enlarge her sphere of indus- 
try and usefulness; it has also tended to shorten the hours of la- 
bor, and multiply the comforts which bless the homes of the 
people. 
The Phrenological publications have had a tendency largely to 
modify medical science; have taught the world that hygienic diet 
and hygienic treatment of disease is the normal method. If a 
school could be fostered in which these laws and principles 
should be thoroughly developed and widely promulgated, the 
world would derive more benefit from, it than from half a dozen 
Yale Colleges. That which the institutions of learning teach is 
useful and necessary. Languages, Astronomy, Geology, Mathe- 
matics, and Natural Philosophy are important, but some things 
which we deem most essential they do not teach. Physiology, 
as applied to temperance, diet, natural hygiene, and the practi- 
cal science of the character and mind as revealed by phrenology 
are essential to human happiness and human development. 
Hundreds of graduates of the highest schools, consult us in our 
professional work, and many of them notwithstanding their col- 
lege culture, manifest an almost utter want of information on 
the first principles of life and health, and they have the good 
sense to be astonished that nobody ever told them about the 
laws of diet and the harmony of physical functions; how to dress 
.n such a way as to promote complete circulation; what to avoid 
in diet and luxury, and what to select in order to the best up- 
building of the constitution. 
The study of man in his daily life in his physiological and hy- 
gienic conditions, and then the proper study of mind as devel- 
oped upon such appropriate physical conditions, constitute the ADDRESSES BEFORE THE INSTITUTE. 
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essentials of human knowledge and culture, and the American 
Institute of Phrenology was established for the purpose of fos- 
tering these ideas, and it rejoices in all collateral culture which 
teaches men the laws of the urnverse in which we are placed, 
but regrets that man’s education is largely objective, that he is 
taught to look out from himself and read the stars and the 
locks, and not taught, as he should be, to read himself, and the 
conditions of his being, to comprehend his fellow-men and 
study the laws that relate mankind to man. 
ADDRESSES BEFORE THE 
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHRENOLOGY, 1889 
OPENING REMARKS BY MR. N. SIZER, THE PRESIDENT. 
Fellow-Students of Human Nature, we have reached the point 
of separation. \Ye have dwelt together in unity and peace. 
As students and teachers we have tried to come into common 
sympathy, common knowledge and common thought. As the 
early disciples of the Christian dispensation had all their inter- 
ests and possessions in common, we have been drinking at the 
fount of Nature and have held sweet council together. We 
have reached the close of the twenty-sixth session and the twen- 
ty-fourth year of the American Institute of Phrenology; you 
have studied and labored faithfully, and have won our friendly 
and perpetual regard. 
According to our custom in the past we invite such of the in- 
structors as are present to say something, and we will then list- 
en, with you, to such students as have been selected by the class 
to speak. Mrs. Wells, as Vice-President of the Institute, is in- 
vited first to speak. 
MRS. WELLS’ ADDRESS. 
Mr. President and Friends, Members of the class of the American Institute 
of Phrenology for 1889: 
We have been accustomed to meet and greet you daily with a good morn- 
ing. It will seem lonesome after you have left us, when there are no more 
“good mornings” to be said every day, but duty calls you away and we a-c- 6 
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quiesce, for we also wish you to he up and doing all your duty. Your moral 
train will respond, when called upon, to help you onward and upward. Do 
not hesitate to call it into action at all times. Joy Cully we greeted you as 
prospective phrenologists, and as heartily do we give you “good speed” on 
your way to carry the glad tidings of this gospel to those who need, the 
blessing that follows proper teaching of how to so live as to make the most 
and best of one’s self. Let me hope that your sole object is to be more useful 
to our race than you could be without the knowledge to be obtained in no 
other institution. You almost seem to belong to me, so clinging are the ties 
that would love to detain you, and I would that when we are separated and 
can not meet daily you may not forget that you are thought of here, by those 
you leave and Avho will be pleased to hear from you frequently, whether in 
success or in distress. Let us rejoice with your happiness, and sympathize 
with you in your anxieties. 
Phrenologists are expected to be perfect, and, in fact, if any one should or 
ought to be perfect phrenologists should, and be like a light set upon a hill. 
Let your light shine to its full brightness and even then you will exhibit, at 
times, imperfections, as perhaps we may have done in the conduct of this 
class. AVe have aimed at and tried to reach perfection as nearly as we could. 
More than that no one could do. Had we as much money as we get credit 
for we would possess a hall and other accessories which would assist us to do 
more and better than we can do under our present circumstances. Members 
of our last year’s class gave us reason to hope the time will come when we 
will havea “Home for Phrenology,” a place to deposit our Cabinet of 
illustrations in a fire-proof building where they will not have to move every 
few years and be liable to be broken, defaced, destroyed, as is always more or 
lessthe case when our Cabinet has to be moved. One member of the class 
for 1888 stands ready to give to this Institute 15,000 towards procuring such a 
home as we require. We hope others will do the same, or, if you can not 
bestow from your own purses and should know of some one or more persons 
who are looting for someplace where their money can be made the most 
beneficial to humanity after they may no longer require its help to obtain 
needed comforts, please remember and put in a plea for this American 
Institute ot Phrenology. That would be better than bestowing upon a 
Hospital, inasmuch as the knowledge of ourselves and how to keep well is 
better than to be cured when ill. You have often heard the adage. Preven- 
tion is better than cure. 
Shall I give to you a hint as to the best way you can help our cause and at 
the same time help yourselves ? I speak now more particularly to such of you 
as axe going into the lecturing field. It is by introducing the Phrenological 
Journal. Wherever that goes you will have patronage, but it is not necessary 
for me to enlarge particularly on that topic. I hope some one of your number 
will speak on that subject and open it up plainly. One of our last year’s class 
sent us a greater number of subscribers this year than any other person, 
and has been equally' blest as a phrenologist. For whatever effort you may 
make for this Institute you wi 11 receive more than fourfold in the satisfaction 
it will give yourselves. 
A former graduate of our class wrote us on Thanksgiving day 1878 saying, 
“Dear Friends, inclosed is five dollars for the American Institute of Phre- 
nology, my idea of the way to translate the Resolution of good wishes passed 
by the class of 1878.” That was a good way to interpret the Resolution, but it 
would take many five dollar bills to procure the desired buildings for the 
deposit nf our Cabinet, and for other uses of the Institute. Yet we have 
learned to despise not the day of small things, especially if they come often. ADDRESSES BEFORE THE INSTITUTE. 
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You came here to learn, and as far as I can judge you did not come in vain. 
If you have striven as hard to keep your body and brain in the right condi- 
tion to receive what we have given as we have endeavored to keep 'ourselves 
in the best condition to give instruction you can not have failed to know 
much more than when you came. We have no secrets to keep, but as far as 
time and opportunity allowed have been free to dispense the truths of Phre- 
nology and Physiology. 
This work is for you to do as well as for us. When you return to your homes 
and your routine of labor endeavor to realize how much greater your re- 
sponsibility is than before you came, and if you strive to accomplish all you 
can you will not dc too much if it be in the right direction. 
You are now of us, and what affects or interests you will affect and interest 
us. and whatever blessing or injury comes on us your heart will respond and 
feel the weal or woe. Therefore, be jealous of the reputation of the Ameri- 
can Institute of Phrenology. 
REMARKS OF DR. DRAYTON. 
During the weeks past we have been considering in cool, dispassionate 
terms the evidences of physiology in the mental life of man; to-day let us 
address ourselves to a different topic, and with souls kindled by a common 
sympathy let us review in some degree the moral hearings of the history of 
the doctrine that you have been studying while in these chairs. This “old 
phrenology ”as we hear it termed—what of it? Answer spirit of Francis 
Joseph Gall, if thou be present! Ninety year's ago in the Imperial city of 
Austria didst thou not make appeal to the talent and learning of that city in 
behalf of truth? Didst thou not point to nature and say*, These principles 
that I declare are not mine invention but hers? And what have these 
principles effected in science and philosophy, in art and industry'? How 
many thousands have they emancipated from the dominion of ignorance 
and error regarding the relations of human beings, and pointed the way 
leadingto a higher manhood or womanhood. Hundreds of the gifted and 
learned in Europe and America have testified to the blessings of this gospel 
of humanity, and multitudes to-day in every clime are in some way its 
beneficiaries. Had Crown Prince Rudolph been instructed in regard to 
this gospel, Austria would not be lamenting the premature and unhappy 
death of the heir to its crown. The mission of phrenology, as we under- 
stand it and teach, is inseparable from the statement of its principles: it 
comes to every one as a revelator ot personal truths; it declares him to be 
the highest product in the earthly evolution of Divine wisdom, and endowed 
with powers whose possibilities of growth and achievement are inconceiv- 
able. It is an evangel of expansion, not of contraction; it does not put the 
seal of fate on brain and mind and say “Thus far and on farther,” hut 
announces a mental evolution unlike the material theory of a Darwin or a 
Haeckel, and replete with hope and promise. Emerson prophet of idealism 
though he be saw not the full import of this gospel,. For did he not say? 
“ Men are what their mothers made them ?” and “You may as well ask a loom 
which weaves huckaback why it docs not make cashmere as expect poetry 
from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber. Ask the 
digger in the ditch to explain Newton’s laws: the fine organs of his brain 
have been pinched by’ overwork and squalid poverty from father to son for 
a hundred years. When each comes forth from his mother’s womb the 
gate of gifts closes behind him. Let him value his hands and feet, he has 
but one pair.” Oh, hard philosophy—yet riddled with exceptions. There 8 
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have been coal-heavers and rough plow-men who wrote poetry: there have 
been diggers and cartmen who could explain Newton’s laws: and patient 
cutters of stone, and menders of shoes who scanned the rocks, and the 
vegetation that covered them, with a penetrating- intelligence. 
Ministering to the mind diseased, alleviating the pain of the stricken in 
body, bringing hope of recovery to the sick, these are noble offices, and the 
world is debtor to the men and women who bear the mission of healer, but he 
who bears the olive branch of protection against the common ills of body 
and mind, who offers a prophylactic against a host of common sorrows is 
worthy a world's ovation. The mission of the true phrenologist includes this, 
it teaches prevention—security against a thbnsand ills that make for un- 
happiness, while it offers means of alleviation and redemption to the earnest 
who strive to overcome the weaknesses and vices of heritage or acquirement. 
Perseverance in the line, of self-culture, the courageous, heroic struggle 
against the bias of organization, will find its reward in victory, and sur- 
mount the heights that appear impossible of approach at the start., in the 
Gospel of Christianity it is promised (by the Word), “He thatovercometh shall 
inherit all things.” In the gospel of phrenology the possibilities of achieve- 
ment are never discounted and the prize of victory is offered to the resolute. 
Said the great preacher of Boston “It is not what the best men do but what 
they are that constitutes the truest benefaction to the fellow-men.” At the 
risk of repeating something I may have uttered before let me say that this 
gospel shows the value of life, and how the willing heart may gather infinite 
delight from countless influences that exist in earth and air and sea. It 
offers no assurances to the melancholy pessimist but bids him to be wise and 
look above and behold the evidences of goodness. He that discourses of the 
perilsand misfortunes of man, of the prevalence of wrong and ignorance 
and brutality, and sees no higher motive in human conduct than some phase 
of selfishness is no true man. He has not read the lesson of his being aright; 
he has sold hisbirthright for a cheaper price than a mess of pottage. 
Some of you listened not long since to a stirring lecture on “The Common 
Man,” and were told of the privileges and possible future of the great class he 
represents in our country. You were told that this class would determine 'by 
its treatment of the burning questions affecting our social, industrial and 
moral life the future of our natron—and that the, great want of the vast 
multitude was leaders who were clear sighted and strong, who discerned the 
needs of the many and were willing to labor in their behalf, willing to show 
them the way to secure those most of needs, better mental and 
physical health, freedom from dogma and partisanship, and a higher order of 
social life. Need I say, friends, that you were then confronted with your 
mission? Do 1 assume too much liberty or authority when I say that in 
accepting those certificates on yonder table you are constituted teachers and 
leaders to this great class of the common man, and it becomes your duty and 
your excellent privilege to help in its elevation. 
You leave this hall with enlarged sympathy for your fellows, I know, 
because of an enlarged understanding of the nature of man, and a better 
view of life’s purpose. Can you, whatever your calling and sphere divest 
yourselves of the responsibility that attaches to your better knowledge, the 
responsibility of helping others to become better men and women? I feel in 
my heart the assurance that each one here has resolved in his or her heart to 
obey the call of duty, to work and to speak for the i nstruction and betterment 
of the/weak, ignorant, oppressed, and unfortunate. The cause of humanity 
is the cause of God. In faithful work for man you serve his Creator. In 
teaching and elevating others you are also taught and elevated. I bid you to ADDRESSES BEFORE THE INSTITUTE. 
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be earnest and strong-, even enthusiastic in this work, for loss can. not 
accrue in its prosecution. The mastery of self, the mastery of men, comes 
from diligence, enthusiasm and perseverance in lines that concern human 
improvement. 
Rev. A, Cushing Dill, the instructor in Elocution, was then introduced, 
who spoke very rapidly but clearly and distinctly for twenty minutes—so 
rapidly that our short hand reporter gave up the chase. Professor Dill is al- 
ways on fire and under high pressure. He loves Phrenology because he 
loves men. His pupils he inspires, not only with thp desire to speak distinct- 
ly, forcibly, and with persuasive eloquence, but with the Demosthenian hope 
that though but poorly endowed by nature they can and will succeed if they 
will only work, work, work. “Labor omnia vincit” was the theme of his 
farewell address to the class. 
REV. A. CUSHING DILL. 
ADDRESS BY N. B. SIZER, M. D. 
Ladies and gentlemenln closing pur association with you as your 
teachers, little is really needful to be said by us, except to regret that the 
hour of separation has arrived too soon, and to express the hope tuat our 
labors together have not been in vain. 
Permit me, however, to offer certain suggestions which experience has 
taught me to be of value. 
Pirst, remember that Bacon says “ Reading makes a full man,” and that 
you can never know too much for your own good, and that of those you 
meet. Life is short at best; let your time, therefore, be put to good advan- 
tage in feeding your brains upon the fertile fields of Science, far too luxuri- 
ant as they are, in growth and variety, to permit any of us more than to 
browse here and there, much less to thoroughly inform ourselves in all 
branches. 
Choose, therefore, some one subject; make it your “ hobby,” and use it as a 
recreation. I may suggest, for instance, Biology, Histology, or Bacteriol- 
ogy : these are as fascinating as a novel and yet of vast importance, as lying 
at the foundation of most important and extensive fields of knowledge. 
Remember that the mind is often better recuperated by a change of work, 
than by idleness: that, while worry is sure to kill people, proper work never 
did, and never will, overload any of us, except in extraordinary emergen- 
cies; and that we are all the better in body, soul and spirit, for keeping at 
work. 
You will also find that your scientific preparation can never be too thor- 
ough, for you may run across people who like to ask puzzling questions of 
men why are not fully quipped for their work. 
Above ail things, acquire an accurate English style, avoiding barbarisms of 
pronunciation of accent; be exact in your use of words, and especially es- 
chew the vulgarisms of “ slang;” which, while they may elicit a laugh from 
the “groundlings,” will infallibly have a tendency to cause educated people to 
put you down, if not as a sheer ignoramus, at least as a vulgar person of 
coarse tastes. If you find yourself shaky anywhere in English, at once re- 
pair the breach; but fly not, like Icarus, beyond your reach; lest, like him, 
the sun scorch your feathers, and you fall, ignominiously. 
No one should attempt learned quotations in the classics, who also misus- 
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feathers, he only makes his ignorance more conspicuous; for no ornament 
can ever supply the place of sound information. Be first accurate and sub- 
stantial, then add, if you can, the adornments of polite society. 
We all hope to hear well of you, and that health and happiness may be 
yours. 
Every time I help to close a course of lectures, I remember how many I 
have assisted in conducting, and I wonder when the last one will come. 
Age lives upon memory and reminiscence, youth lives upon Hope and Faith, 
and rejoices in achievements yet to come. Age looks back and rejoices, if it 
may revert to worthy achievements that are finished. When I think of 
Phrenology, instead of starting with you, and making a tour of the future, I 
look back and consider what you inherit. Remember that Phrenology is not 
the fabric of quacks. Quacks may sometimes dabble in it, as the quacks of the 
world from time immemorial are anxious to do that which better men do, 
and they strive to get in surrentitiously, and have a share in it, and in re- 
spect to whom it might properly be said, as it was said to another: “ Get thee 
behind me, Satan.” 
ADDRESS OF PROF. NELSON SIZER. 
Dr. Gall was a physician and educated thoroughly, as they always educate 
physicians in Germany; he was a man of no mean repute; he was physician in 
ordinary to the Emperor of Austria. In 1798 he commenced to give lectures 
on the subject. Ninety-three years ago Phrenology was poured into the pub- 
lic ear; its great originator and expounder faced the world with a new idea, 
and there is nothing more perilous to a man of reputation, at least there was 
not in the past, than to dare to think of something that had not been thought 
of before. For many years previously he had been studying the subject. 
•In the year 1800, Dr. Spurzheim commenced the study of Phrenology with 
Dr. Gall, and after traveling together through Germany, Dr. Gall, assisted 
by Dr. Spurzheim, delivered, in 1807, his first course of lectures in Paris. 
“His assertions,” says Chenevix, F. 11. S., “ were supported by a numerous 
collection of skulls, heads, casts, and by a multiplicity of anatomical and 
physiological facta. Great indeed was the ardor of the Parisians by the pres- 
ence of the men, who, as they supposed, could tell their fortunes by their 
heads.” 
August 28th, 1828, Dr. Gall, after thirty-two years of public labor, was laid 
to rest in Paris, and some of the wisest and best men stood around bis grave, 
and their orator said, “The death of Dr. Gall is an immense loss to science.” 
It is a singular fact that Spurzheim, beginning in 1800, and dying in 1832, wasin 
the field the same number of years as Dr. Gall. O. S. Fowler began to lecture 
in 1834, and closed in 1887, covering a term of fifty-three years. L. N. Fowler, 
beginning at the same time, has been at work fifty-live years. Mrs. Wells 
fifty-four years, and I am just completing fifty years in the field. 
In 1833, fifty-seven years ago to-day, Dr. Spurzheim was giving his last 
course of lectures in Boston; and just one month to a day later, he was the sub- 
ject of profound mourning among all thinkers in that literary and scientific 
center of the country, Boston. He was eminent in his moral attainments, he 
was wide and accurate in his researches. Dr. Gall was eminently honest and 
trim; when he met a development of the head and ascertained that it indicated 
something, he called it by the rough, raw name; if it was Self-esteem, he 
called it pride; if it was Acquisitiveness, he called it theft; if it was Destruc- 
tiveness, he called it murder; the truth was bare, naked, honest with Dr. G all. 
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izatlon than Dr. Gall, and with perhaps richer literary aptitude, and a better 
metaphysical mind; he wrought the facts of Dr. Gall, and those which he dis- 
covered himself, into a systematic form, and gave better names to the organs- 
Dr. Gall gave the action of a faculty as the name of the faculty itself. Spurz- 
heim went back of that; instead of call.ng one organ ang-er and another or- 
gan murder, he called the organ which gives anger Combativeness, and the 
organ which gives severity or cruelty he gave it the name of Destructiveness. 
In the death of Dr. Spurzheim, at Boston, Mass., Nov. 10, 1833, Phrenology 
was supposed by some to have received its death-blow. The hearty friends of 
the cause and of its exponent in and around Boston, gathered at the funeral 
of Spurzheim, and Rev. John Pierpont, poet arid divine at once, was one of 
his sincere mourners. He wrote, as you know, an Ode to Spurzheim, which 
was sung at his funeral by the Handel and Haydn Society. Its words voiced 
the sorrowing sentiments of his bereaved friends and admirers, and half a 
century has but added richness and pathos to the sad refrain. And now, in 
the presence of his bust, and that of his honored master. Dr. Gall, bear with 
me while I repeat the tender lines, and join me in bedewing his memory with 
tears. 
ODE TO SPURZHEIM. 
“Stranger, there is bending o’er thee. 
Many an eye with sorrow wet: 
All our stricken hearts deplore thee. 
Who that knew thee can forget? 
Who forget what thou hast spoken ? 
Who thine eye, thy noble frame? 
But that golden bowl is broken, 
In the greatness of thy fame. 
Autumn leaves shall fall and wither, 
On the spot where thou shalt rest; 
’Tis in love we bear thee thither, 
To thy mourning Mother’s breast. 
For the stores of science brought us. 
For the charm thy goodness gave 
To the lessons thou hast taught us, 
Can we give thee but a.grave ? 
Nature’s priest, how true and fervent. 
Was thy worship at her shrine I 
Friend of man—of God the servant, 
Advocate of truths divine; 
Taught and charmed as by no other. 
We have been, and hoped to be; 
But while waiting- round thee. Brother, 
For thy light, ’tis dark with thee. 
Dark with thee, no, thy Creator, 
All whose creatures and whose laws 
Thou didst love,—shall give thee greater 
Light than earth’s, as earth withdraws. 
To thy God thy Godlike spirit. 
Back wo give in filial trust; 
Thy cold clay—we grieve tojbear it 
To its chamber—but we must.” 
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fact, that he was the first heir of immortality which that beautiful city of 
the dead opened its bosom to receive. 
The death of Spurzheim gave a great impetus to Phrenological investiga- 
tion. The Fowlers were then at school in Amherst, Henry Ward Beecher 
was there, a fellow-student, and it was a subject of discussion in the college, 
and public sentiment seemed to.be ripe for its promulgation, and the Fowlers 
then adopted Phrenology as a profession, and Practical Phrenology, or the 
application of Phrenology to individual life and individual culture, then and 
there originated with the Fowlers, and we have to-day with us their sister 
Charlotte, who made the first chart that was ever marked. It was a slip of 
paper as large as a note-sheet, on which the names of the organs were writ- 
ten, and when a subject wanted an examination, and the sizes of the organs 
were named, she marked them down with her pen, in figures, and the man 
paid ten cents extra for it and gladly treasured it as he went away. We re- 
joice to remember also that she taught the first class in Phrenology ever 
taught in America, and has contributed the riches of her experience also to 
this the latest class, but we hope not the last jhat shall be assisted by her. 
Fifty years ago, the thirteenth of December next, I started in this work as 
a public lecturer. I have done nothing else since, and have been in the field a 
third longer than Spurzheim. Fifty-seven years ago Spurzheim died, and it 
lacks but seven years now of the centennial anniversary of the day when 
Phrenology was first promulgated. 
Now, brethren, I expect to be here and working in this field as long as I am 
able to do anything. I bid you Godspeed, knowing that we love the cause, 
that we love those that love the cause, and rejoice in every opportunity to 
reach everybody, especially those who may be struggling- in the way, but 
who hope to win success; that success which shall contribute to, and be mingled 
with, the blessings of mankind. 
•! We have present with us to-day, I am happy to say, a student of the class of 
1872, the Rev. Mr. Macduff, and if he will give us five minutes, or twice five, 
it will be a great deal better than anything I may be able to say. 
[Mr. Macduff spoke eloquently and earnestly in favor of Phrenology and of 
the great aid it renders to the professional man in dealing with mind and 
character, especially to the minister of the Gospel. We regret that the report- 
er who was present was unable to keep pace with the rapidity of the speaker.] 
I now have the pleasure of calling upon those students who have been 
chosen by their associates to .speak in behalf of the class. The class is so larg-e 
that only a few could have time to speak. 
Twelve years ago, being interested in music, I saw an advertisement of 
Daniel’s “How to Sing,” published by Fowler & Wells Co., to whom I sent 
for a copy. With the book, came a copy of the Phrenological Almanac, cat- 
alogues, etc., and a printed offer of odd numbers of the Phrenological Journal. 
I immediately sent for the Journals, the reading of which gave me a great 
desire to know more of the then to me, new science. “ How to Read Charac- 
ter,” was next purchased, and very soon after twenty dollars’ worth of Docks 
on Phrenology. 
The Journal has been a welcome visitor ever since, and very many books 
have been sold and subscriptions taken; there is no journal published or 
book written, the reading of which is so interesting and profitable. 
Eight years ago, being broken down in health and hardly knowing what to 
get at, I decided to have a written phrenological description of ray character 
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from photographs. The delineation was received in due time, and it is hard 
ly necessary to add that its instructions were followed as regards pursuit and 
health, and my weight increased from 170 to 200 pounds, the weight said to be 
necessary to sustain my nervous system. The chart thoroughly convinced 
me of the truth and usefulness of Phrenology, and I resolved to know more 
of it, so that I could help others to its benefits. 
I have read and studied Phrenology and advocated its usefulness, “in sea- 
son and out of season,” have lectured to the students and professors of our 
college, and I may add that there are in attendance, at this session of the In- 
stitute, the Principal, two teachers, and astudent from our school, six of us in 
one club from Virginia. For years I desired to attend this Institute, 
and have held the subject of Phrenology so sacred that I resolved to make no 
examinations until after I should graduate at this Institute, knowing that 
much harm has come from persons practicing it where they were not proper- 
ly prepared to do so. 
The greatest invention ever made for the notation of vocal music has been 
greatly retarded in its usefulness by persons undertaking to teach the nota- 
tion when they themselves ought to have been the pupils. The notation is so 
simple that it can be learned in a comparatively short time, but being able to 
sing a few pieces does not by any means indicate that a person is able to 
teach music. 
So with Phrenology, it being so much more beneficial and far-reaching in 
its usefulness to mankind, there is no reason why any person should practice 
it without the necessary knowledge, when such Instruction as this Institute 
affords can be had. 
Dear fellow-students, if wfe have graduated at the American Institute of 
Phrenology, our work of usefulness and of culture has just begun. Let each 
show himself a “workman that needeth not to be ashamed,” rightly dissemi- 
nating true practical Phrenology to mankind. Let us be in earnest, think, 
read, observe, remember and put to practice the many useful hints gained 
during these six weeks. 
Again, let us all be informed about-other things beside Phrenology. In 
matters of culture, Phrenologists should not be below those whom they in- 
struct. In this great land of schools and colleges, there is no just reason why 
any one should not have a thorough knowledge of the English language and 
the sciences. Self-culture is one of the easy attainments in this day of books. 
Not a few persons have become shining lights by simply improving their 
spare moments. May we ali try to raise the standard and thus popularize our 
greatest of all sciences. 
Lastly, may our character and conduct be such as to be a guiding-light to 
others and an honor to Phrenology. 
Mr. President, Members of the Faculty, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Class 
’B9, I have selected as ray theme. 
ADDRESS OF REV. JOHN DUKE MCFADEN. 
PHRENOLOGY AS A PRACTICAL SCIENCE. 
Phrenology is a practical science, and should be studied by all who love their 
fellow-man. Why not ? Men gather facts about plants and people study bot- 
any, men gather facts about rocks and people study geology, men gather 
facts about stars and people study astronomy, men gather facts about brain 
and mind, why should not people study Phrenology? 
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so-called sciences, men are at sea, they are lost in the mist of speculation, and 
are wrecked on the breakers of doubt. 
An Indian went sailing with a bush in the prow of his canoe for a sail; the 
wind commenced to blow, and he was afraid to go forward to reef his bush; 
he sat still, paddle in hand, repeating in monotone, “ Too much bush for little 
canoe, too much bush for little canoe.” The students of some men-gathered 
theories are in a gale, with “Too much bush for little canoe.” 
Phrenology is practical, it deals with facts and not with theories, spun from 
some sprained imagination. It starts the young in the right direction, places 
youth in the right occupation, selects proper mates for the single, overcomes 
sexual troubles for the married, points out the right path for the wrongly di- 
rected, brings health to the diseased, unfolds mysteries for the puzzled, en- 
ables man to reef his sail, escape the breakers, and through the gulf-stream of 
truth enter the harbor of success. 
Phrenology is practical in every profession and business; it helpsihe preach- 
er reach the conscience of his hearer, it helps the la wyer reacn the heart of 
his jury, it helps the teacher reach the mind of his scholar, it helps the mer- 
chant reach the pocket of his customer, it helps the housewife reach the good 
graces of her help, it will help all to reach harmony with nature, and thus 
recognize nature’s God, who teaches us to say, “ Thou wilt show me the path 
of life; in Thy presence is fullness of joy, at Thy right hand there are pleas- 
ures forevermore.” 
Phrenology is practical when directed in religious channels; it makes selfish 
church-mernberscharitable, for it enables them to understand individual or- 
ganization and thus better appreciate natural differences. It teaches them to 
take man as he is, and endeavor to make him what he ought to be; it shows 
why one mangoes in the direction of those who are spiritual, why another 
man goes in the direction of those who are doctrinal, why yet another man 
goes in the direction of those who are ritualistic, etc. 
• Thus understanding natural inclinations, we are more charitable one with 
the other: there is a greater tendency to one common center, and a greater 
desire to accomplish theobjeot for which Christ died, viz: “to seek and to save 
the lost.” 
There is no argument so hard for a skeptic to combat as a genuine Christian 
experience; on the same principle, a leaf from my phrenological experience 
may illustrate my point and clinch the nail I have driven. 
Literary work has always been congenial to my feelings. In 1884 I compiled 
“Our Bible, our Church and our Country.” In 1888 I wrote the “ Story of 
Jesus.” Neither of tin books was published, I lacked confidence in my abil- 
ity, and my taper was hid under the bushel of diffidence. 
Dr. John L. Capen gave me a Phrenological examination, and encouraged 
my inclination for literature; I went home from that examination, took the 
“ Story of Jesus,” from my desk, and put it to press. 75,000 copies were sold 
the first year, the sale will reach 100,000 copies this year, and the publishers ex- 
pect to sell one million copies. I came to New York City, had an examination 
from Prof. Nelson Sizer, who told me I had more talent than confidence in 
my work; I went home and put to press “Our Bible, our Church, and our 
Country.” When people say. “You are enthusiastic on the subject,” lean re- 
ply, as did David to his critics, when Goliath stood before them, “ is there not 
a cause ?” 
Phrenology did not put any more brains in my skull than I had before, but 
it enabled me to take my latitude and longitude and sail in the right direc- 
tion. It showed my deficiency and why I hesitated to plow ahead, though 
having a natural inclination for the work. Understanding the why and the ADDRESSES BEFORE THE INSTITUTE. 
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wherefore, my intellect grasped the situation, took the responsibility, and I 
am endeavoring to “go on to perfection.” 
Phrenology being practical is of value; of more value than the sun, were it 
golden; of more value than the moon, were it silver; of more value than the 
stars, were they diamonds: for of what value would a golden sun, a silver 
moon, or diamond stars be to a fool. Solomon said, “Wisdom is the princi- 
pal thing, therefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding.” 
In conclusion, let me say, as practical phrenologists, aim high, remembering 
that he who aims at the pocket only is not aiming high; let our object be the 
world’s salvation, physical, intellectual and spiritual, a full practical salva- 
tion. To this end 
“ Live with an earnest purpose. 
Work with a manful aim. 
Strive for a worthy object. 
Earning a noble fame. 
Live in the active present. 
Fling idle dreams away. 
Work be it great or humble. 
Duty for us to-day. 
Now is the time accepted. 
Swift fly the precious hours. 
This is the golden moment, 
Give God your ransomed powers. 
Then when the toil is over. 
Sweet will the resting- he. 
Bright is the crown of glory 
Jean* shall give to thee,” 
ADDRESS OF STANLEY MERGER HUNTER, 
Mr. President, Members of the Faculty, and fellow-students of Humanity, 
the present state of our darling science. Phrenology, in England, is highly en- 
couraging. We have in most of oar large towns and cities, a resident Phre- 
nologist, who daily dispenses to his fellow-creatures that sort of knowl- 
edge which enhances our appreciation of the beauties of nature, and makes 
life worth living, and who withal reaps a comfort able income from his labors, 
as he deserves. For who amongst all the candidates for public recognition, 
merits the substantial support of that public more than the conscientious 
phrenologist? None. 
PHRENOLOGY IN ENGLAND, AND PHRENOLOGY IN GENERAL, 
Docs be not step in to the aid of anxious parents, and instruct them how to 
train their boys and girls so that these may grow to be an honor to their 
country and their God ? Does he not oftentimes snatch, by his candid advice, 
the erring and wayward from the path of destruction, and lead them back to 
the nobleness of life ? Yea, verily. Then surely I say, he is worthy of the 
public’s most generous regard. 
The most influential organization devoted to our science in the mother 
country, is the British Phrenological Association, which comprises amongst 
its stanchest supporters the most notable phrenologists of Britain. It is 
not like its sister, your American Institute, (and our now Alma Mater,) char- 
tered by the government, hut it hopes to, ere long, so that the good work, 
which has been so ably begun on this side of the water, may he continued and 
never- ended on the other. 
At the Liverpool Y. M. C- A., we have a phrenological society of which I 
was one of the principal members; this little society is about the most privi- 16 
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leged in the provinces, for it has the loan, owing to the industry of my friend 
Mr. Shore, whom I tried to persuade to accompany me across Hie Atlantic, of 
the most unique collection of busts, casts, masks and skulls, formerly the prop- 
erty of the late Prof. Bridges, of the same city. It was while engaged in tills 
little fraternity of Phrenologists that I first heard of the American Institute 
of Phrenology, and from that time it did not take me long to decide to attend 
the course of instruction given thereat. My reasons for coming this year 
were prompted, I imagine, ny the selfish sentiments, for I longed to perse nal- 
ly interview those venerable and veteran pioneers of Phrenology, Prof. Nel- 
son Sizer, and Mrs. Charlotte Fowler Wells, whom we are privileged to have 
in our midst to-day. Knowing that immortality is not vouchsafed to us while 
in this mundane state, I was naturally eager to come and learn from them 
the wisdom of accumulated years before the great BeyOnd should claim them 
as its own. So here I aro, and after having drunk from the fountain of their 
stores of information, along wit',i that from the rest of our preceptors, it af- 
fordsme unqualified pleasure to say that my expectations have been fully re- 
alized, both as to quality and quantity of the instruction, and the amiability 
and patience of our teachers. 
Character-reading was of very early growth with me; long ere I knew the 
meaning of the words, Phrenology and Physiognomy, I had a kind of Lavater- 
like instinct for judging the disposition of my school-fellows, hut it was 
not until I was brought in contact with Phrenology, by hearing some lect- 
ures on the subject, that I became aware of the fact that there was a method 
to be followed in reading and studying-character, and that this method was 
reliably expounded only by the science of Phrenology, which I have since 
learned to value more than any other, except the science of Hygiene, which 
has come within the focus of my observation. 
Human-nature is the first and the last, the Alpha and Omega, the universal 
and undying study of the world. 
The fathers and mothers of to-day and of the future should learn Phrenol- 
ogy, sothatthey may apply its vital truths in the rearing of their children, so 
that they may impart its fascinating principles to them while the mind is re- 
tentive and pliant, while yet they are in the second stage of Shakspeare s 
Seven Ages ; 
“The whining school-boy with his satchel, 
And shining morning face, creeping like a snail 
Unwillingly to school; and then the lover,” 
who, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, will make a deplorable hash of his 
matrimonial dish, if he rely for his choice upon nothing more definite chan 
■‘ falling in love” or mere caprice, so to him or to her, I would respectfully 
recommend Phrenology. 
During the past six weeks of unremitting and eager application, what have 
we imbibed, what have we learned ? We have been sumptuously regaled by 
Prof. Nelson Sizer in the practical sphere of our work. He has taught us how 
to examine with accuracy, and has infused us With the ability to read with 
avidity the “ Heads and Faces ” that come before our notice, as we would read 
a letter from one who is dear to us. Our intellects have been feasted by the 
rich stores of lear ning which Prof. Drayton has poured unstintedly into 
them. The way to take care of the house that we live in has been impressed 
upon us by Dr. N. B. Sizer in such a manner as materially to benefit our 
physical well-being. The wonderful phenomena of Human Magnetism has 
been clearly and interestingly demonstrated by Dr. Gunn, and Dr. Ordro 
neaux has dealt in a masterly" styde with the vagaries of the Human mind, the 
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times, and we have swallowed, with delectation, the vigorous vocal exercises 
of the Bev. A. Cushing Dill, who has striven to convert us from the error of 
our ways, and to turn us out as acceptable speakers before the public. And 
lastly, but by no means least, our Eventuality has been adroitly played upon 
as a skillful pianist manipulates her key-board, by the voluminous cyclopedia 
of Phrenological history, biography and autobiography which Mrs. Wells has 
gathered during her long and useful career. And I say, brothers and sisters 
of the common cause, if, afterthis Niagara of knowledge, we do not go away 
wiser than we came, we shall have irredeemably little heads and next to noth- 
ing in them. 
The utility of Phrenology must be manifest to even the casual observer. 
There is not a person breathing who can afford to disregard its teachings, no 
not one; certain vocations call it into greater requisition than others, 
amongst them being the medical, legal, ministerial and dramatic professions. 
Most actors and actresses are acute physiognomists, and would be more acute 
were they more scientific. Our teachings at this Institute have taught us to 
analyze ourselves, to analyze others, and have given into our hands the key 
which unlocks the door of the intricacies and subtleties of human character. 
And now a few words on Phrenology as a profession, in this respect it is 
encouraging, for the field is not overcrowded with competent phrenologists. 
It is also as responsible a sphere of wOrlc as that of the pulpit, and therefore 
the men and women who adopt it should be equal to those who enter the 
church. Most other professions award degrees to their successful students, 
why not thusinPhrenology? We have masters of Art, masters of Oratory, we 
have doctors of Divinity, Law, Science, Physics, Literature and Music. Then 
why not a doctor or Master of Phrenology ? That it will come to this, in time, I 
doubt uot. Only letthevotariesof the science be true to their cause, and it will 
achieve an ever-increasing reputation; let them remember the superb intel- 
lects of Gall and Spurzheira, from whom it emanated, and the philosophic 
mind of George Combe, where it was nurtured, not forgetting its gifted advo- 
cates of our own time. 
There are two classes of phrenologists as of other individuals, namely, good 
and bad. Emerson tells us that there are but two sorts of people, and that 
they are benefactors and malefactors. Save us from the malefactors. A 
Phrenologist is either an examiner or a lecturer and examiner. For the lat- 
ter, a more varied development is required than for the former. Both 
should have the “mens sana in coipore sano,” especially the lecturer. 
There are, I regret to say, few really good lecturers, and why ? Simply because 
the majority of phrenologists regard lecturing as a secondary matter, and do 
not, consequently, labor to excel in it. But allow me to remark that it is a mat- 
ter of paramount importance, and should receive careful and continued at- 
tention. The public verdict is passed upon a phrenologist, according to the 
figure he cuts upon his platform. This figure may be impressive, unimpres- 
sive or ridiculous. It is absolutely necessary that he should study words and 
their delivery. Is it to be supposed that the great orators and actors of the 
past and present, such as Pitt, Brougham, Demosthenes, Cicero, Garrick, 
Kemble, Kean, Beaconsfield or Gladstone, or your own Patrick Henry, Henry 
Clay or the transcendent Henry Ward Beecher, attained their brilliancy and 
power without assiduous and minute study ? No. Such a supposition is an- 
tagonistic to our every-day experience. Mr. Henry Irving, the tragedian of 
world-wide celebrity, when asked what advice he would give to the would-be 
follower of Boscius, and aspirant after histrionic honors, said, “Behearse, re- 
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Pitman has it in his phonographic text-books, and believe me, fellow-work- 
ers, this advice is as applicable to the phrenological lecturer as it was and is 
to the members of “ sock and buskin.” 
The phrenologist should be a modelman, exempt from the vices of the day, 
free from all taint of that which tends to lower “the human form‘Divine.” 
In so far as he conforms to this standard of life, to such an extent will he ap- 
proach the grand ideal which should ever gleam brightly and hopefully 
before him, and in so far as he deviates therefrom will he degrade himself and 
become unworthy of the educative and elevative science he has espoused. The 
phrenologist should be the most impartial of men, and in his examinations 
he should, Othello-like, “ around, unvarnished tale deliver,” so that were he 
delineating the character of his most inveterate enemy, he would “nothing 
extenuate, nor aught set down in malice.” He should combine the knowledge 
of the medical man with the aspirations of the Philanthropist. 
Originality of diction is very desirable, for to be a mere copyist, however 
perfect tne original, is not commendable, and seldom meets with what it 
seeks, popularity. We are sometimes led to overlook the lack of culture by 
the force of native originality. The poet Churchill in his “Rosiad,” which 
was the most caustic critical effusion bearing on the dramatic art, i n the time 
of David Garrick, whom I have already mentioned, has a few lines in harmony 
with my subject, and which, therefore, I submit for your remembrance, as 
being equally applicable to the Phrenological lecturer. 
“The actor who would build a solid fame, 
Must imitations’ servile arts disclaim ; 
Act from himself, on his own bottom stand, 
I hate e’en Garrick thus at second-hand. ” 
ADDRESS OF REV. J. W. WORSNOP. 
• Mr. President, esteemed teachers, and members of the Class of 1889 
Before we say good-bye to each other, it may be well for us to remember 
that Phrenology has its moral and religious, as well as its social and selfish, 
fßsthetical and intellectual bearings. And while we are not, as practical 
phrenologists, to attempt to prove by its teachings any particular denomi- 
national creed, yet, a mere tyro in the science cannot fail to recognize that 
man is so made up as to justify the appellation which has been given to him 
by philosophers, that man is “a religious animal.” Many ministers of the 
Gospel, supposing phrenology to be antagonistic to their work, look upon it 
with a jealous eye, regard its advocates as quacks, and fight too frequently, 
both them and the science. lam glad all do not do this. To show how some 
look upon the science, I give one case. I said to a minister one day, “ Have 
you heard Prof. So-and-so led ure.on Phrenology yet ?” He said, rather abrupt- 
ly, “No sir, I have not, nor do I want to either, for Ido not believe in such 
trash.” I simply replied, “Well, I can excuse you talking in that strain on 
the ground of ignorance, for were you acquainted with Phrenology, your 
tune would be struck on a different key-note.” 
Phrenology, I believe, can be made a helpmeet to Christianity. Christianity 
supposes man to have moral and religious, as well as intellectual faculties. 
And while it asks him to think and reason, it also asks him to worship and to 
adore, not man, nor yet an angel, but God. 
Now how can man worship unless he has the faculty for worship, or unless 
he is so constituted as to be able to do so? The lower animals are not called 
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ious emotion. Christianity says, “Worship Godin spirit and in truth,” 
Phrenology shows that man is so made up as to be able to carry out this 
injunction. Phrenology does not invent moral and religious faculties, it 
simply reveals the fact that man possesses them. 
Men are not etherealized beings; they live in tabernacles of clay and can 
manifest emotion and thought through organization only. How could men 
hear the Gospel if they were deaf? How could they read the Scriptures if 
they were also deprived of sight and touch ? In short, if men were deprived 
of all their senses, how could the truth, which must come from without, be 
deposited in the soil of their hearts like seed in the ground, so as to bring 
forth a rich harvest ? 
It is necessary that these conditions exist before preachers can become 
“fishers of men.” But even if these conditions are favorable, is it not also 
necessary that they should know men in order to successfully “catch them.” 
Christ himself knew what was in men. With great accuracy He could read 
human character. Some of His disciples possessed this gift to a remarkable 
degree. Peter detected the hypocrisy of Ananias and Sapphira; he certainly 
could not have dene this i f he had not been a good judge of human character. 
Paul was equally successful in recognizing that Elymasthe sorcerer was full 
of all guile and all villainy. Were they not able then to grapple more suc- 
cessfully with men, than they could possibly have been without this gift, if 
gift it may be called V 
Take up, now, a copy of lectures on preaching, and you will And invariably 
thatthose who delivered them tried to impress those who heard them, and 
those who might hereafter read them,-that to preach so as to win men you 
must know them. They lay great stress on a knowledge of human nature. 
It does not seem to strike them, however, that they themselves get this 
suggestion from a faculty which is called Human-nature, and which has to do 
with perceiving, as if by intuition, the character and motives of men. I will 
note one exception, that of the late Henry Ward Beecher, who was a practical 
phrenologist. 
To know men we ought to have some scientific basis on which to rest in 
judging of their idiosyncrasies. Some believe altogether in physiognomy 
and reject what phrenology has to say on the subject of delineating character. 
I think it is better to use both, though if any preference is to be given, I 
give it to Phrenology. We do not say that so-called mental science is with- 
out advantage, but we do say that it cannot be made as practical as Phrenol- 
ogy. The latter, being a science of observation, can be relied upon inform- 
ing correct conclusions as to the characters of those with whom we come in 
contact. We have not been taught that it is a perfect science. We are liable 
to make mistakes in giving delineations. But are we not safer in estimating 
talent, disposition and so forth in accordance with than we are without its 
principles ? And, besides, what science is perfect ? Because they are not 
perfect, are we to pay no regard to them whatever ? It would be the very 
height of absurdity to do so. Then what should we do ? Why keep working 
at them until they are brought, by our efforts, nearer to perfection. If we 
had truth so perfectly systematized as to make all science so perfect as to be as 
exact as the multiplication-table, there would be nothing left for the coming 
generations to do in the way of making additional discoveries, or throwing 
new light on old truths. Other men have labored and are still laboring 
industriously, and coming individuals will “enter into their labors.” 
Now, if preachers would only take up the study of Phrenology, Instead of 
ignorantly criticising and rejecting it, on account of its imperfection, they 
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will enable a preacher not only to understand himself better, but it will give 
him clearer views of the character of each member of his church and congre- 
gation, so that he can more effectively distribute spiritual food in accordance 
with the mental endowments and culture of each one. 
Should these words, when they appear in the Institute extra, be read by 
ministers of the Gospel, I they will lay aside their prejudice and study 
the science with an impartial mind, and, if possible, avail themselves of the 
course of instruction which is given by the American Institute of Phrenol- 
ogy every year, and they will then see beau ies in the science which they 
cannot see now. 
I cannot close without saying that it has done us good to come to New York 
to hear the “big guns.” We shall not forget the spicy lectures of the presi- 
dent which were brimful of sparkling humor, apt illustrations, pithy say ings, 
and solid phrenological food. The venerable voice of our phrenological 
mother, and her historical resume of the science in this and the other side 
of the water, as well as her experience as amagnetizer, will never be effaced 
from thetablet of our memory, and we shall wait with eager Interest for the 
publication of the lives of Phrenological advocates, including an autobiogra- 
phy of herself. And who has not been profited by the profound lectures of 
Mr. Drayton, which show a cultured mind, and a capacity for extensive 
research V Dr. N. B. Sizer has shown himself to be master of his subjects, a 
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the animal econo- 
my of man’s nature. 
Dr. Ordroneaux’s lectures on Insanity were deep and showed that he is a 
clear, rapid thinker, a ready, easy speaker, and a profound scholar. Rev. A. 
C. Dill showed us what could be accomplished in overcoming defects of 
speech by perseverance and constant practice. And last, though not least, is 
Dr. Gunn, who discharged some ponderous balls of thought in his two excel- 
lent lectures, and who gave great satisfaction in his magnetic experiments 
before the class. 
ADDRESS OF J. 11. THOMAS. 
Mr. President. Members of the Faculty, Ladies and Gentlemen : It was in 
February of 1873 that I met a practical phrenologist for the first time, and 
having my head examined by him, to my surprise, he said I bad a good 
practical brain for phrenology. That set me to thinking, for, up to that 
time, I had no other thought than to be a coal-miner all the days of my life. 
I then thought that I would like to have some literature on the subject of 
Phrenology. After I had been searching for some time, I came in contact 
with the Phrenological Journal. I became a reader of the Journal, and 
enjoyed it very much, but was not satisfied with that alone, and so, I sent for 
one book after another until I found myself read up in the subject so that I 
commenced talking of mental developments in public. 
FRUITS FROM THE PHRENOLOGICAL FIELD. 
As I came to study moral and religious faculties, the thought came to me, 
“There must be truth in the religion of Jesus Christ. There is harmony 
between Phrenology and the Bible.” For the first time in my life, I looked 
Heavenward for rny strength. The question naturally came to me “ What am 
I to do with this subject ? Shall I throw it to one side or go on with it?” 
There were two professions that stood out in my mind, first theology, second 
phrenology. Which should I take up ? There was something in me that said, 
“Can you turn your back on phrenology now, after it has brought you out 
into the light?” How could I answer this question but to cry put from the ADDRESSES BEFORE THE INSTITUTE. 
depths of ray heart, "No, no. Ishalinot turn from this cause.” So, friends, 
you see, here I am. I have come, and I shall do all that lies in this brain of 
mine for the cause of phrenology and mankind. If there is a desire to do 
good in this class, and in the other classes, we have one of the best chances in 
all the world. 
When I stop and look back over my tracks, and see where I came from, I 
feel thankful !o my God that there was a Gall, a Spurzheim, a Combe, and of 
the other true followers of phrenology in the past that have done so much 
good for the world. What may we not expect from the phrenologist of the 
coming times ? So, go, therefore, with your good tidings. Work with a firm 
mind and you will do good. The field is waiting for the laborers. 
History tells us that men of large brains came from the poor people. If so, 
we cannot refuse to give examinations to poor boys and girls with large 
brains and not much money. I have seen young people among the working 
classes, Avho were poor in this world’s goods, but who were millionaires in 
intellect. They had large, strong brains, and good bodies to support those 
brains. There are uncrowned kings in g-reat numbers. 
What this world wants to-day is men of brain, bone and muscle, men with 
broad, round, strong thoughts that the world must hear. We need the best 
men at the head of the Ship of State. We can be the means of their taking 
their places in life and carrying ourgovernmenton and on to the realization 
of the most lofty conceptions of the philosophers and statesmen. “We can be 
the means of putting holy men in the pulpit, men who are worthy of our 
respect in the profession of medicine, men that shall be In the law for the 
good they can be to their fellowmen, in short the time is coming when all 
persons shall come to be directed for their right place in life. 
It is surely a pleasant thought to our worthy instructors, when they 
remember the many persons they have sent off happy, and who are doing 
good in their vocations; so may it be with us. 
When we come to the point called death, it will be pleasant to think that we 
have, in our small way, helped mankind. 
ADDRESS BY DE L. SACKETT. 
Mr. President, Members of the Faculty, and Ladies and Gentlemen of the 
class; 
The time so long anticipated by many of us when we should be graduates 
of the American Institute of Phrenology has at ast arrived, and it is with 
mingled feelings of gratitude, satisfaction and sadness that we participate 
in this last meeting of the class of 1889. 
We are grateful because we have been permitted to attend this course, and 
for the warm ties of friendship here formed. We are sad because of the 
severing of these pleasant class associations, and because we are admonished 
by the traces of Time’s footsteps over the verier able heads of our worthy and 
esteemed President and Vice-president who have borne the heat and burden 
of the day, that they, the oldest patriarchs of Phrenology now living in 
America, must in a few years, at most, lay down their weapons of warfare 
against Ignorance and superstition. God grant that we who are younger 
may serve the cause as worthily as have they. 
I think I but voice the sentiment of the whole class when I render my 
thanks to them and all the members of the faculty for their " unremitting 
assiduity,” and the courteous kindness manifested to us during the entire 
session of this Institute. 
And now, classmates, let us not for a moment entertain the idea that HU MAtMI ATTIRE LIBRARY. 
our school-days are over, and that we are fully equipped for our work; but 
let us remember that life means progression, and that the rudiments acquired 
here only fit us to enter that greater school of experience, the only source 
of positive knowledge, Lee us realize that while success may await us, 
there will be many disappointments and much to discourage us. 
We shall meet with opposition from some of the so-called scientists, and 
from many dogmatic creed-bound bigots, but Ave may “ thank God and take 
courage,” for the “common people will hear us gladly.” Let us not fail to 
apply the knowledge of human nature we have here acquired to our own 
characters, and try to correct our faults. Let us have the courage of our 
convictions and denounce fraud and deceit and the artificial in life every- 
where, ever bearing in mind that we must some day be shorn of our masks, 
cease “to look through a glass darkly ” and stand face to face' with all. Let 
us ever remember that we are men and Avomen in the image of God only in 
proportion as Aye make the animal in our natures subordinate to the moral 
and intellectual, Avith the firm conviction that true success in life is not 
measured by the dollars acquired, but by the good accomplished. 
It has been truly said that “ the drying of a single tear has more of honest 
fame than shedding seas of gore.” It may be said Avith equal truthfulness 
that the straightening of one poor-Avarped and crooked character into an 
upright being, and restoring to a lost soul the image of its Maker, is of more 
importance than the creation of a avorid, for Avorlds shall end in dissolution, 
but man shall live forever. 
Classmates, let me exhort you, no matter Avhat may have been your early 
teachings, or what may noAV be your belief as to the attributes and character 
of the great Jehovah, to form 3 our estimate of the Diety from the deductions 
of Phrenology. When we combine all the perfections of all humanity, Ave 
then only have an Individual such as is possible for the whole race by 
cultivation to become. Such a character we cannot comprehend, nor could 
such a character comprehend the Infinite. You may have attained to your 
ideal of ten years ago, but your ideal is still i n advance of you, and avill ahva3rs 
continue to be. After this world shall have become dissolved and its elements 
haA’e entered into the composition of new worlds, and all its poor, benighted 
human creatures shall have been redeemed and advanced by lovre to an 
intellectual condition Avhere they shall know and comprehend the philosophy 
of the formation and gOA-ernment of Avorlds, yet still they Avill not be able to 
comprehend the great Jehovah, for he avill be Infinite in love. Infinite in 
mercy. Infinite in justice; and although progression shall continue through- 
out all eternity, the created Avill never comprehend the Creator. 
Man has a rightto sit in judgment on mankind and enforce civil laAvs for 
the protection of society, but he has no rightto sit in judgment and declare 
Avhat another’s future shall be, for he does not fully understand the causes 
that lead to certain results. Many sins in the parents become natural traits 
in their progeny, and there are many shades of heredity mixed into every 
individual. Fortunate is he whose ancestors have endoAved him with a Avell- 
balanced character, and unfortunate are they who have inherited a Avarped 
and perverted nature; they are subjectsof pity rather than of censure. Let 
us not blaspheme God by teaching that His mercy, His love, and His justice 
are not equal to ours. 
And no ay, as Ave separate and go to our several fields of labor, let us size 
ourselves up bythe most approved “Sizer’’methods, and use the talents Avith 
which we are endoAved for the dissemination of the truths of Phrenology, 
not. forgetting that all the natures and all the types of all created things 
beneath us are represented in man, and we are Godlike only as we use these ADDRESSES BEFORE THE INSTITUTE. 
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lower natures to give force and energy to that element of love or charity 
which is the Divine within us. No stream can rise above its fountain-head; 
let us therefore entertain the most exalted views of the Diety, ever keeping 
our most amiable and benevolent moods in the ascendency, for 
Our moods, oft-times like the weather 
When storm and sunshine, wind and rain 
Come at once and blend together, 
Bringing gladness, also pain. 
In our hearts, strong passion revels, 
Like the elements above, 
For we are beset with devils, 
And with angels filled with love. 
Making moods so very changeful. 
Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad; 
Then again we are revengeful. 
Till our reason becomes mad. 
When the devils take possession. 
Drive the angels from the field. 
Then controlled by evil passions. 
Cause the good in us to yield. 
Then our moods become so frantic. 
Crimes and follies gather fast. 
Leaving naught but shame and sorrow. 
When the tempest fierce is past. 
Epitome of Nature—.Man! 
Endowed with powers truly grand, 
Combines in him all life beneath, 
Of the ocean and the land. 
In him the lion may be found 
Blended with the peaceful dove. 
One is oft revealed in anger, 
And the other oft in love. 
Oft-times man reveals the serpent. 
And sometimes the timid hare. 
Then again will cruel monsters 
Flash out glances here and there. 
Thus his moods are always changeful. 
Caused by constant inner strife. 
Of all natures groped within him, 
Each one struggling hard for life. 
Some are angels, some are devils. 
Fighting each for self alone. 
When combined give man his reason, 
Which should always have the throne 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Faculty and Class; 
VALEDICTORY ADDRESS, BY MR. R. O. DIEUTS. 
On the third day of September last we first met here, strangers, in and with 
our several capacities, but with a common purpose—the discovery of the 
real attributes, the real constituents of man, and I believe ours has been a 
labor not in vain. HUMAN-NATURE LIBRARY, 
Now, afterthe lapse of many a pleasant hour, and day, and week, we are 
metagain, and when these final, formal words of farewell and of parting 
have been spoken, the mutual relations and du ties assumed then by each of 
us will be dissolved, but the bonds of friendship that have been wrought, 
will, I trust, remain forever inviolate, gentle, yet mighty, as the loving 
message sent by the Queen of Tidesthat swells the bosom of the deep. 
Fellow-students, I know with what emotions you are moved as you look 
out upon the world of which you are soon to become an active part, strug- 
gling to make life better worth living, and death less worth dying. 
You go from here as from the sheltering roof-tree of your fathers, with 
words of Divine truth, of encouraging advice, of patriarchal wisdom still 
lingering in your ears, and evoking from the sacred chambers of the myste- 
rious realms of mind blessings to be showered upon the honored heads of 
these devoted teachers whom we have grown to love. 
That the human mind has an index, there are none, I believe, who deny; 
but as to that index there is a diversity of opinion; some prefer the face, 
some the head, but to me it seems that if we can judge character by the face 
where the brain is not located, we can better judge character by the head 
where the brain is located. 
The names of Gall, Spurzheim, Combe, Caldwell, Fowler, Wells, Sizer, and 
Drayton were not unknown to usbefore we gathered here, but now that we 
have been brought in closer relationship with the still surviving, and through 
them, with the departed, our admiration is Increased, and we are led to look 
upon those whose noble works have shed immortal glory on that galaxy 
of names as the benefactors of the human race. 
I can not conceive of any field of labor that offers to the honest, intelligent 
and specially qualified worker so grand a harvest as does the science of the 
Brain and Mind, when correctly interpreted and applied. It is not a 
philosophical speculation but a science; it }s not a hope, but a realization; it 
it not a belief, but a knowledge. 
We never know what we believe, and we never believe what we know. The 
more we believe, the less we know, and the more we know, the less we be- 
lieve. 
T would have you go forth strong in your knowledge; courageous in your 
mien; unimpeachable in integrity; unremitting in your advocacy of truth; 
above the petty tricks of a mechanical elocution ; uncontaminated by the 
feats of legerdemain; sanguine, yet not fanatical in your hopes; emphatic 
without arrogance; dignified without vanity. 
Be candid and you will make some enemies; be deceptive, and you will 
make no friends. It were better that your truth offend than that your fiction 
please. You are not to respect one merely because of physical prowess, but 
more because of mental prowess. One may be a physical giant though an 
intellectual dwarf, and on the other hand, one may be an intellectual giant 
though a physical dwarf. 
It will be your duty to estimate these extremes and to assign to each a 
proper sphere. Let your advice be not given to tickle the fancy, but be 
given, and of such sterling kind, as will lead to success. 
In this, as in other matters, you have no right to fail: you are under obliga- 
tions to succeed, notin one way only, but, at least to a certain extent, in all 
ways. Success is fivefold, intellectual, moral, social, physical and financial. 
If you succeed in but one of these ways, you fail four times more than you 
succeed. One may be familiar with the erudition of ancient and modern 
times; may be logical, deep and versatile, and would be called an intellectual 
success; yet at the same time that one may be a moral delinquent, a physical ADDRESSES BEFORE THE INSTITUTE. 
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wreck, a social ascetic and a financial ruin. Therefore, one success has been 
made and four failures. 
One may be morally upright, yet intellectually inane; socially defective, 
physically decrepit, and financially barren. Or again, a social success, yet be 
morally oblique, intellectually Infantile, physically insane, financially morbid 
and so on through all the possibilities, succeeding in one, failing in the 
others. 
You go as missionaries, telling"the unfortunate ones wherein they are 
deficient and how to amend, marking a Scyda on the right hand, a Charyb- 
dis on the left. The harvest is ripe, awaiting you. The undevelopment 
and the misapplication of mental forces, everywhere manifest, show the 
want and need of some more reliable guidance than that usually afforded 
by the trite school methods most In vogue. 
Our state prisons and other places for the enforced penitent, with their 
swarming garrisons, tell us there is much evil in the land, and that there is 
something more than “lesson bibbing and book gluttony” necessary to 
evolve a moral agent that will do right because it is right. The divorce 
courts, the jealousies, the spites, the heart-burnings, the savagery of domestic 
life, and the worthless offspring tell us that conjugal incompatibility has 
opened Its Pandora box in our midst, and why ? Because people will persist 
in sparking in the dark, instead of iu the light of science, and as a result 
they fall in love when not acquainted, and out when they are. Some people 
are not married who are, and some are who are not. If we walk along the 
streets, or visit hospitals and the various infirmaries, we can see on every 
side manifold evidences of physical frailties, shattered and meager constitu- 
tions, suffering and unmitigated pain,—ignoble testimonials of Nature's 
violated laws. Go into other quarters, and squalor, poverty, hunger and 
dirt stifle you,—dire results of financial imbecility. 
We have taken it upon ourselves, my dear friends, to do what lies in our 
power to avert and alleviate these various miseries of life, to prepare and 
administer to these reeking wounds of society the soothing balm of scientific 
advice. 
There is another duty before us, and I charge you, and all who are interest- 
ed in this science of ours, with a task, and it is this: Bend every effort to re- 
discover the lost art of unfolding the brain as was done by the great found- 
ers of this school of mental science. It seems this work of the masters has 
“fallen upon evil days,” and we should not rest until the vantage ground 
occupied by the pioneers has been retaken. 
Superficial observation is not enough. Armed with hook and scalpel, mi- 
croscope and electrical machine, let us go into the work of vivisection, of 
Faradization, and prosecute the researches with such diligence t hat all the 
world may come to us, with profit, to learn of brain and brain-centers, and 
their functions. Why not? Our chosen line of labor is brain aid its phe- 
nomena, and if we do not succeed in learning more about them than all 
others beside, then it is because we are indifferent people, without a gener- 
ous supply of that which we have selected as an object of study. Everybody 
knows more than anybody about all things, but anybody who has studied one 
thing as a specialty knows, or should know, more about it than everybody 
beside. 
Become a specialist, and never reject a fact because it may militate against 
a favorite theory. To do this is not the spirit of science, but the tactics of 
fanaticism. Once decided as to what you will do, bring every fact to your as- 
sistance and you will find it better to know everything about something than 
something about everything. 26 
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Take special pains to minister to the wants of the laboring- people. They 
are the tower of our strength, and when they work more with their brains 
their burdens will become less onerous. To be the most prosperous nation on 
the globe all that is necessary is to have brain and muscle under the same 
skin, not the brain here, and the muscle there. The manufactured article 
represents brain, the raw material muscle, and just so long as one section of 
the country furnishes the crude material, and another section the manufact- 
ured product, just so long Avill there be an uneven distribution of mental 
and physical prosperity, the advantage being with the section which does the 
manufacturing. Now, how much can you do by your advice to adjust these 
matters ? 
Surround the working-man by refining influences and you soon develop a 
new man. Good clothing purifies his language and puts him upon his honor. 
A man under these circumstances will not waht to be rude, and will not 
want to want to be so? Making all allowances for environment, we are 
what we are because we do what we do, and we do what we do because we 
are what we are, and we can not do or be otherwise under the circumstances; 
hence the vast importance of surrounding ourselves by the proper condi- 
tions. In a measure, of course, some men are made by circumstances, and 
some men make circumstances. To which of these two classes do you choose 
to belong? Will you be the sport of the variable winds of opportunity, of 
the vicissitudes and vagaries of a disappointed life? I think you can be 
more, and I hope that you may. 
Mr. President, to you and your corps of most efficient instructors I need 
only say, and that you already know, that we owe you a debt of gratitude 
which can not be discharged now, lor as we grow older and wiser that debt 
will increase. All the buds do not open with the first breath of spring, but 
some linger even until the golden fruit clusters in the tree. What now to us 
may seem but little buds, will, when nurtured by the fostering care of an ap- 
preciative understanding, open in full bloom apd make the mental atmos- 
phere redolent with the fragrance of wisdom. 
For myself I can say that for ten years I have been desirous of attending 
this institute, but the work I had to do as a lecturer in the field prevented my 
coming. This year I concluded to let every other consideration rest, and 
come. Ifelt thatmy days of grace were at an end, and if 1 did not come now 
J would be outlawed. 
T am rejoiced that we have had the privilege of hearing your words, 
fraught with the accumulated weight of fifty years of experience, Prof. Siz- 
er, and we can say in other times, “ Yes, yes, we heard him day after day, al- 
ways the same cheerful, patient guardian of our choice, and we shall never 
forget it.” If I were to express all wo feel toward the entire faculty, this 
address would transcend the bounds of timfe. 
But I can not close without a benediction upon the dearest one of all to us„ 
the one who takes more pleasure in battling for the truth than in the rest and 
quiet that more than half a century of public life would bring were it not 
that the noble, self-sacrificing, philanthropic soul can not be idle while there 
is yet work to be done. 
The names of Fowler and Wells are known in every hamlet in the United 
States, and here, in'the person of our dear mother, we have both names unit- 
ed, an*l a personification of ali that was good in both. The frosts of seventy 
odd winters have stripped the Arbor Vitae of many leaves, and if we look up 
through the bare branches, we can see the stars more brightly shining be- 
yond,—beacons in the windows of heaven to welcome the weary pilgrim 
home. RESOLUTIONS OF CLASS. 
May the God of truth, of justice and of mercy prolong- her life, and give her 
strength to do that which is yet to be done, and which can be done by her 
only. 
To each I leave no lesser token, 
I know none other to excel; 
Farewell: the word must now be spoken. 
But linger on the word. Farewell! 
RESOLUTIONS "OF THE CLASS. 
Preamble:— Having completed the course of studies in the American In- 
stitute of Phrenology, the class of 1889 adopts the following resolutions: 
Resolved Ist: That we recognize Phrenology to be the most practical of 
all systems of Mental Science. 
Resolved 2nd:— That we heartily commend to students of Mental Science, 
the American Institute of Phrenology, with its scholarly and efficient profess- 
ors, and its large and varied cabinet of skulls, casts, paintings, etc., affording 
facilities to both student and teacher which can be found in no other institu- 
tion of learning. 
Resolved 3rd:— That as one of the best exponents of advanced thought in 
matters pertaining to mental science, the laws of life and human improve- 
ment, we commend to the reading and thinking public the Phrenological 
Journal and Science of Health. 
Resolved 4th:— That we hereby express our sense of obligation to the fac- 
ulty, who during the session of 1889, have spared neither time nor pains in 
communicating the required knowledge for the practice of Phrenology. 
Feed W. Perkins, Secretary. D. Hugo Campbell, Chairman. 1 n ... 
S. A. Goktneb, I. N. H. Beahm, I Committee 
W. p. Dewing, * W. Hendbikson. fT, . 
G. F. Knowles, * J Resolutions. 
NAMES OF THE CLASS OF 1889 
B. F. Asbell, Kansas. J. C. Bateson, M. D. Pennsylvania. 
A. Bauseh, New York. Rev. I. N. H. Beahm, Virginia. 
C. Brandenburg-, New York. I). H. Campbell, Canada. 
J. C.B. Cannaday, Tennessee. W. P. Dewing-, Wisconsin. 
R. O. Dieuis, Louisiana. J. S. Drakeford, South Carolina. 
W. J. Duval, Arkansas. B. E. Ernerick, Illinois. 
H, T. Estabrook, North Carolina. W. P. Fawcett, Virginia. 
Sam'l Gibson, Scotland. S. A. Gortner, New York. 
G. W. Grammer, Texas. G. Heitzman, Indiana. 
W. Hendrikson, Minnesota. E. T. Hildebrant, Virginia. 
H. Pilgrim Holt, M. D., Pennsylvania. G. B. Holsinger, Virginia. 
S. M. Hunter, England. E. H. Judkins, Maine. 
George F. Knowles, New York. Geo. F. Laidlaw, New York. 
Alex. H. Laid]aw, Jr., New York. W. D. Lamb, Canada. 
Chas. B.Lyon, Michigan. P. L. Mehan, Michigan. 
J. Michael, Minnesota. Rev. E. A. Miller, Virginia. 
Mrs. E. A. Miller, Virginia. Rev. J. C. McFaden, Phila, Penn. 
C. B. McKinnon, Canada. Fred. W. Perkins, Missouri. 
Mary A. Perkins, Missouri. De L. Saekett, Illinois. 
Chas. E. Spofford, Maine, Chas. 11. Sumner, Illinois. 
J. H. Thomas, Illinois. Lena E. Upton, Maine. 
S. R. Vincent, Oregon. Benj. R. Watchbaugh, Illinois. 
Gao. Weant, Pennsylvania. Rev. J. W. Worsnop, Missouri. 28 
LIST OF GRADUATES TO 1889. 
LIST OF GRADUATES TO 1669, 
We are often written to by persons in different States to ascertain if 
“Prof. ” is a graduate of the American Institute of Phrenology. Some 
persons whom we never before heard of have professed to be graduates of 
the Institute, and even publish it on their circulars, endeavoring thus to se- 
cure consideration. The following list embraces the names of all the grad- 
uates up to and including the year 1889. All our students have a diploma, 
and it would be safe to ash to see the diploma of those who claim to bo grad- 
uates. 
Abel, Miss Loretta,M.D. New Y0rk,1877 
Adams, Elijah, Missouri 1875 
Adams, Miss E. R, lowa 1883 
Ahrens, H.F, New York 1888 
Alderson, Matt.W, Mont 1875,79,80 
Alexander, Arthur!, Indiana 1871 
Alexander, W. G, Canada 1884 
Alger, Frank George. N.H 1880 
Anderson,Alex. H., Canada 1884 
Anderson, Geo.W., Canada 1887 
Anderson,Samuel H., Pennsylvania 1867 
Andre, James Wm., Pennsylvania.. 1888 
Arnold, Chas.H., Mass— 1870 
Arthur, Willie P., New York 1874 
Asbell.B.F., Kansas.... 1889 
Aspinwall, F. E., New York 1872-73 
Austin, Eugene W., New York 1878 
Austin, Fred. H., Pennsylvania. 1882 
Ayer, Sewell P., Maine ..1868 
Barnes, Milan Day, New York 1888 
Barrett, Richard J., California. 1886 
Bateman,.Luther C., Maine 1871 
Ballou, Perry E., New York 1871-72 
Btcon, David F., N.H 1875 
Baker, Wm. W., Tennessee 1876 
Baillie, James L., Ohio.. 1881 
Bartholomew, H.S., Indiana 1885 
Bateson.J.C. M.D., Pennsylvania..lBB9 
Battey,O. F., Massachusetts. 1883 
Bausch, Albert., New York, 1887-89 
Beard. J. Wr., Virginia 1887-88 
Beahm.Rev. 1.H.N., Virginia 1889 
Beecher, Eugene, Connecticut 1870 
Beverly, C. A. M. D., Illinois 1872 
Beall,Edgar C., Ohio. 1877 
Beer, John, New York, 1878 
Bentley, Harriet W. ,* Connect*out... 1881 
Bell, James., N.H 1881 
Boettger, G. W., New York 1887 
Bourne, Elias A., Pennsylvania 1868 
Bowers, W. L., Ohio 1887 
Brady, J. Bradshaw., New York ; 1887 
Brown, D.L., lowa 1872 
Brown, Robert 1., New, York 1887 
Bonham. Elisha C., Illinois 1875 
Bousson. Miss O.M.T New York. 1877-82 
Bradford,E.G., New York 1888 
Brandenburg, C.W.,New York 1889 
Brcttel, Montague, Ohio 1875 
Brothour, E.J., Canada 1884 
Brimble-Oornbe,Wm., Australia.... 1886 
Brownson, Rev A. J., Indiana 1884 
Brush, Clinton E., New York 1887 
Bullard, J.H., New York 1866 
Buck, Marion F., New York..! 1868 
Burnham, A. 8., Wiscor.si n 1881 
Burr, Rev. W.K.M.A.Ph.D, CanadalBB4 
Cady, Charles Everett, New York.... 1885 
Candee, E.E., N.Y ’73 ’75 ’7B ’BO ’BB 
Cannaday,J.C.B., Tennessee 1889 
Campbell,H. D., C* New York 1874 
Campbell,D.H., Canada 1887-89 
Carman, Lewis, New York 1883 
Cassel, Harry K., Pennsylvania 1886 
Catlin. David C., Connecticut 1877 
Centerbar, J.S., New York 1881 
Chandler. G.E..M.D.0hi0..; IoTS 
Chapman, James H., Texas... 1887,1888 
Chapman, May, Massachusetts 1879 
Charles, G,, Canada 1876 
Chesley, Egbert M., Nova Scotia 1871 
Chester, Arthur, New York 1870 
Clark, Perry, California 1886 
Clark, Thomas,* New Jersey 1874 
Clarke, Dev. Jas. 8., Maine 1877 
Collins,John, Wisconsin 1878 
Condlt, Hilyer, New Jersey 1867 
Constantine, Kev.A. A, New .It rsey. 1875 
Constantine, Miss E. ,New Jersey.. ’75-84 
Cook, J.lt., Ohio 1872 
Corbion, William 4., Pennsylvania..lBBB 
Corfman, A.J., M.D.Ohio 1886 
Cowan, John,M.D., New York 1870 
Cray, Edward A., Rhode Island 1885 
Creamer, Edward B..New York 1866 
Crum,Rev.Amos, Illinois... 1870 
Curley, Miss Maggie., New York 1887 
Curren,Orville., Michigan 1873 
Curren, Thomas, Michigan 1873 
Currpn, H. VV., Michigan 1874 
Cutten, D.F., M. u., Canada 1888 
Daly, Oliver Perry., lowa 1808 
Dancer, J. F., M .D , Canada 1870 
Darling, Edgar A., New York. 1885 
Davidson, E. A., New Y0rk.,....1883-85 
Davis, Edgar E„ lowa 1885 
Davis, Ida V., Wash. Ter 1888 
Davis, Wallace, Pennsylvania.. . 1875 
Detwiler, D. W., Pennsylvania 1880 
DeVore, 8 V., lowa 1887 
Dewing, W.F., Wisconsin, 1889 
Dill,Rev.A.Cushing.,New Jersey .1883 
Diehm, Joseph. Kansas ‘ 1885 
Dieuis, R. 0., Louisiana 1889 
Dodge, Lovell, Pennsylvania 1867 
Dodds,Rev.D..M.D., lowa . 1877 
Doncaster. Wrn.H., Pennsylvania’. 1888 
Doolittle, Orrin, New York . 1885 
Dornbach. H. F. A,, * Valparaiso, 53 A 1885 
Downey. Eev.T.J., * Ohio 1867 
Duncan, J, Ransom, Texas.. 1875 
Du Bois, D.C. ,lowa . .1877 
Duoton, Geo.W., Nebraska 1887 
Drakeford, J.S., Sbutn Carolina. 1889 
Drury, Andrew A,, Massachusetts.. .1882 
Duval, W. J., Arkansas 1889 
Eadie,Andrew 8., Canada.. 1877 
Earley,John, Ireland... 1885 
Ebersole, John P., Ohio ' 1885 
Eckharclt,P., Illinois. ~ 1884 
Emerick, 8.E., Illinois 1889 
Emerick, Lycurgus, Illir tis 1876 
Emery,C.Sumner M.D., Ohio. 1887 
Emery, Henry R., Ohio 1887 
English, V.P„ Lawyer, Kansas. ’ 1886 
Espy, John Boyd, Pennsylvania 1875 
Estabrook, H.T., North Carolina....lBB9 
Evans, Henry W., Pennsylvania ..1867 
’’Deceased, LIST OF GRADUATES TO 1889. 
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Fager, Andrew C., Ohio 1887 
Fairbanks, C. 8., * New York 1872 
Fairfield, John C., Pennsylvania.... 1876 
Fariss, F.A , Virginia 1885-87 
Fawcett, W.P., Virginia 1889 
Ferry, A. 8., Illinois 1881-84 
Field,!.ll., Colorado 1866 
Fitzgerald, Miss D.W.*Sew York 1887 
Fitzgerald, Miss Blanche, New York. 1887 
Fitzgerald, N. Ward Washington 1), C. 1885 
Fleisch, Jacob, Ohio 1870 
Foster, Felix Jr,, Mississippi 1870 
Foster, Henry E., Tennessee 1879 
Fowler, Miss Nellie, New Jersey.. ~1884 
Fraser, J. A. G., Canada 1877-82 
Freeman, Chas.E., lowa 1880 
Freidrich, Martin., Pennsylvania... 1882 
Gates, Charles A.. Minnesota 1888 
Gaumer, Beyi, lowa 1876 
Gardner, James 0,, Illinois 1888 
Gause,Mrs Eiva P., N. C 1875 
Gibbs, H.Clarence. Wisconsin 1874 
Gibson, Samuel, Scotland 1889 
Giles, J.C., Texas 1885 
Gillis, Benjamin, Missouri 1875 
Getchell, G. 8., Maine 1888 
Gluckler, Ralph J., New York 1882 
Goodrich,Geo.X>., Minnesota 1876 
Gortner, S. A., New York 1889 
Cranberry,PrentissS., Mississippi..lB73 
Gram mer, G. W., Texas 1889 
Gray, James, New York 1888 
Green, Wm.E„ Pennsylvania 1874 
Greear,Rev.S.J., Illinois 1875 
Griffith, Wm.ll.,Texas 1887 
Grob, Samuel, Pa .1881, 1882 
Growden, Rev. A.M., N.Z.(nowCal.) 1888 
Gramm an, Wm. E„ Connecticut 1885 
Guilford, Ira. B, . Michigan 1876 
Gunther, G. P. A., New Y'ork 1888 
Haley, William T., California '.,.1871 
Haller, John S., Pennsylvania. .4868 
Hambloton,H.E..Ohio 1875 
Hamilton, Elliott A..Michigan 1867 
Hanan,Henry V., Kansas 1886 
Hardy, John N., Wisconsin 1870 
Harriman, O. 8., M. I)., Towa 1876 
Harris,J.B., Indiana 1888 
Hasie, G. E., Bavvyer., Mississippi 1879 
Haskell, Charles 8., Mass 1885,1888 
Hatfield, Prof. Wm., England 1888 
Hathaway, D.E., Mass 1874 
Hawkins, Wm. S., Connecticut 1868 
Hayward, Mary T., New Jersey 188 7 
Hawley, Edwin N.,Ohio 1876 
Heitzman,G., Indiana 1889 
Henderson,F.M., Illinois 1867 
Henderson, Bizzie, Canada 1888 
Henderson, James, New York 1871 
Hendrikson, W., Minnesota..., 1889 
Herrick,MissM.E., Mass 1884 
Hildebrant, E. T., Virginia..... 1889 
Hilleary, 8.N., M l)., lowa 1877 
Hiser, E.W., Indiana 1878 
Hobson, A. Norman.,lowa 1869 
Hoffman, Uriah 8., Indiana, 1874 
Hoole, John, California 1888 
Holm, J.S., lowa 1874 
Holt,Chas., New York ... . . .1875 
Holt, H,Pilgrim, M.JD., Pa 1889 
Holt, Miss M.J., Texas 1876 
Holsinger, G. 8., Virginia...'...! 1889 
Horne, William., Michigan 1874 
Howard, E., Canada 1888 
Howard, Paul, England 1885 
Howard, Geo.Thos., Canada 1888 
Howd, Edmund, New York 1888 
Hummel,Bevi., Pennsylvania 1877 
Humphrey, John C., Alabama 1868 
Humble, Frank, Pennsylvania 1886 
Hughes, Henry F., New York 1870 
Huggins, 8.E., Ohio 1877 
Hull, Herbert H. Pennsylvania... 1886 
Hunter, Rev. W. J.,D. D,, Canada,. ..1887 
Hunter, Stanley M., England 1889 
Hurley', Thos. B„ Maine 1888 
Irving, Mrs. P.W., Connecticut 1884 
Irvin, Rev. Root. J.,Canada 1885 
Jackson, John P„ England 1867 
Jamison, John A., Jr,New York.... 1884 
January, Charles P., lowa 1879 
Jennings, Alfred, Mass 1871 
Johnson, J.C., Mass 1884 
Jones, Isaac S., New Jersey .1868 
Jones, John W., Indiana. 1868 
Judkins, E. H., Maine ~ . .1889 
Keith, A.8., lowa 1877 
Keller, Martha .1., Ohio 1887 
Klmmons, James M., Kansas. .1884,1885 
Kinriig, David S., Ohio 1877 
King, David M„ Ohio 1867 
King, George 8.,0hi0 1884 
King, Win. H., Texas 1887 
Kirkpatrick.Robert, Montana . 1879 
Kirven, P. E.,Ba 1881.1882 
Knowles, Frank B*., New York . ..1883 
Knowles, Geo.F., New York 1889 
Kramer, John E„ New York 1886 
Kunderd, Amos E., Indiana . . . .1886 
Baidlaw, Geo. F., New York .1889 
Baidlaw, Alex H.Jr.,New York 1889 
Bamb, W.D., Canada 1889 
Bane. Rev.John C.,* Missouri.. 1869 
Bangley, M. B„ Arkansas.... 1872 
Bangmaid, F.W.S.. Mass 1887 
Ba Rue, Franklin, Montana... 1882 
Bauer, Rev, J..D.,0hi0 1874 
Bawreiice, Alva, Jr,* New York. . 1876 
Beavitt, Bevi 8., N. II 1870 
Beggett, MinnieH., New York 1888 
Beimnger, John W., Canada 1883 
Beise, Henry, Pa 1887 
Bemou, J., New York 1884 
Beonard, 8.A., Mass.... 1880 
Bee, Rev.Geo. A., P<. .. 1873 
Bester, D. C., Pa 1872 
Blnvil, C.H., Pa 1879 
1 ischer, M. 8., New York. ~ 1883 
Bockard,E.M., .Pa 1883, 1884 
Boomis, Beni.F California 1886 
Bomison, Wm.A., Pa 1886. 
Buxford, F.Wra.,New York 1887 
Byon, Chas.B., Michigan 1889 
Macduff, Rev.R.E., Kentucky 1872 
MacGregor, Alex., New Jersey.. .1888 
Mack, H.Q, New York ‘ 1867 
Mackenzie, J.H., Minnesota 1873 
Macrea Miss Flora, Australia 1884 
Maxwell, Robert G., N.C . 1887 
McCoy, Jason 8.,0hi0 1885 
McDonald, Duncan Mich 1867, 1882 
Mclntosh, James, Ohio 1867 
McDavid; J.Q., S. C 1874 
Me Neil, James, New York , 1873 
McCrea, James, Illinois 1873 
McFaden,Rev. J. D., Phil. Pa.., . 1889 
McGuire, C.F.M. New York 1888 
McKee William C., Ohio 1879 
McKenna, Thomas, R.I ! .1888 
McKinnon, C. 8., Canada 1889 
McKim, John J., Mass 1887 
Mcßaughin, Canada 1882 
McNaughton, S.S.,New York 1871 
Mann, H., jr„ Verm mt 1883 
Manners, J. H.», New Zealand 1877 
Mannion, Frank, lowa , 1879 
Martin, Edwin E., New York 1880 
Matley, John, California 1872 
Matlack, A.S., Ohio 1875 
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LIST OF GRADUATES TO 1889. 
Mason James, Mass 1880 
Mason,Dott, M. D., Illinois 1869 
Mason, A.Wallace, Canada 1874 
Masters, Edward. Australia 1888 
Mehan, F.T ~ Mch 1889 
Merrifield, John C„ Canada 1868 
Meller, Frank J., Illinois 1881 
Memminger, T.F., WestVa 1881 
Meyer. Robert O J., Illinois 1888 
Mills, Joseph, Ohio 1889 
Mills, Rev. J.S.,Ohio 18 <2 
Michael, J. Minnesota 1868 
Miller, Kev.E. A., Virginia , 1889 
Miller, Mrs.E.A.. Virginia 1889 
Miller,E.P., M.D.,New York 1866 
Miller, B.Frank.. California 1882 
Miller, Henry, Michigan 1887 
Miller, John C. , Ohio :..1888 
Moatz, I,ewis. Ohio 1869 
Moran. Maggie D., New Jersey 1885 
Morrison, Edward J.,lllinois 1868 
Moore, Joseph 11.. N.C 1877 
Morris Prof.Geo., 0re.1878,1884, 1888 
Morris, Marietta M„ Oregon 1888 
Mully, A.8.F., New York 1882 
Musgrove,Wm., England 1875 
Newman. A. A., Illinois. 1867 
Nichols, Perry L.,lowa 1887 
Oestergard, J.C., Denmark 1883 
Oliver, Dr. F. W., lowa 188.) 
Olney, Henry J.,Michigan 1875 
Orvi s, Heil F., Wis.... 1886,1887 
Osgood, Rev. Joel., Ohio 1882 
Palliste1-. Wm., Canada 1882 
Parker, 8.G., Missouri 1874 
Parker! Howell 8., Ga.. .1875,1880,1885 
Patton, Edward M., Illinois. 1874 
Patten, Wm.Perry, Nebraska 18,6 
Patterson.John A., Missouri 1870 
Paulsen, John H.,Da 1877 
Pentnev, John, Canada 18/7 
Perkins, Fred W., Missouri 1889 
Perkins,Mary A., Missouri. 1889 
PiersoH, Sampson H.,W. Va 1870 
Perrin. Edward M.*, Kansas 1869 
Perry, A. D., Mass 1883 
Petry Daniel F., New York 1866 
Philbr’ick, S.F., Ohio 1873, 1874 
Phipps, Henry T., Mass 1887 
Pooler, Mrs. F. M. Ma 55........ 1887 
Potter, Miss Helen, New York 1887 
Pierce, Davin F.,Cotin—■•••• 
Powell, L.M..M.D New York... .1886 
Pratt Benj.F., Td.D.,olno 187n 
Prather, Miss M. 0,. Kansas 18/6 
Price, David 8., lowa 1868 
Purcell, E.M., lowa 1814 
Beam, Elmer, Indiana IgHo 
Reed, Anson A., Conn 1868 
Riddel. Newton N.,Nebraska 1887 
Rhone. Geo.W., Pa.. —■■ ■ ■ ■ 
Richardson,M.T., New York in 
Richards, William, Pa..., 1873 
Righter, M.Helen, Illinois 16 33 
Richie, PorterD., Illinois 18.1 
Ribero, Manuel, Spam 1887 
Bobbins, T.L., Mass 18/2 
Roberts, I.D,Florida ... ■ .1872 
Roberts. Jas,Thos„ California 1883 
Roberts, Margaret E., Pa 
Robinson, Frank 0., Tenn 1880 
Robinson, G.M., Illinois 1881 
Roeseler, John S„ Wisconsin 1884 
Rogers, Ralph, Tenn ... 187.) 
Romie, Paul T. Cahforn la 18/7 
Rosenbaum, F. VVm„ Ohio 1878 
Russell, Geo. P., Tenn 1888 
Sackett,DeD„ Illinois. ... IBS 9 
Sadler, David M„ Maryland 1879 
Sage, Enos A„ New Jersey 1808 
Sahlin. Mrs.M.A., New York 1884 
Sanches, Mrs.Marie, Sweden.. 1880 
Sargent, C.E..N.H 1874 
Scfcealt'er, .1. S., lowa 1884 
S jott, Martha A., Colorado !...!!1881 
i.SooU, Bev.Wm. R., liliuois.lBBB 
Senior, F.D., New York., 1872 
Seybold, F. J., Illinois... 1870 
Sliamberger, Daniel,. Virginia. '.; 1885 
Shultz, R. C, M. D., lowa 1876 
Sievert, Miss Sophie, New York .1880 
Smith, Bartholomew. Bliode Island ’ 186,0 
Smith, Dundy B.; Missouri 1874 
Smith, Mary E,. Canada 1888 
Smith, Thomas Wm.,Canada 1876 
Snell, C. D., Pa !! .... 1873 
Sommers, Jarvis, Conn ..1860 
Spofford. Cbas E., Maine ;... 1880 
Spring, Geo. A., New York ' .'.1882 
Staples, Ernest D., Conn 1877 
Sterling, Jas.K*, Can <1884,1886 
Ste'wart, Bollin., Vermont 1867 
Stockton, Miss Alice.,lllinois .1874 
Stone. W. T., Indiana 1867 
Strong, J.Wilmer, Pa. ' 1866 
Stroup,DanielU., Pa 1888 
Snares. Adolph 8., New York 1875 
Sullivan, Johnß,, New York 1885 
Sumner, Chas H., Illinois 1889 
Swain, Henry E., New York..,1870 
Swift, Miss Edna A., Connecticut 1873 
Taggart, Chas. Alvan. Massachusetts, 1880 
Taylor,.las.l., Pennsylvania 1888 
Thackstou, P. 8., South Carolina 1885 
Thomas, J.H., Illinois.. 1889 
Thomas, J.W., Missouri 1879 
Thompson, Benj., lowa 1867 
Thompson, D. I)., Canada. 1873 
Thompson, J. A., Pennsylvania 1866 
Thompson, Miss M. B, Ohio 1876 
Thurston, Calvin 11., Indiana 1869 
Tower, Henry M., Massachusetts 1881 
Tracy, John I’., New York 1886 
Treasure, Edwin., Pennsylvania 1887 
Turner, P., Illinois 1871 , 
Turner, Thomas, New York 1878 
Turner, Mrs. A., Now Jersey 1887 
Underwood, Wm. P., Colorado 1888 
Upton, Lena E., Maine 1889 
Vincent, S. K., Oregon 1889 
Wahl, Albert, Illinois 1879 
Waide, Robert, Indiana 1881 
Wait, A. H., Kansas 1883 
Wallace, A.D., Tennessee 1877 
Walters, Eli. Ohio 1874 
Watchbaugh Benj. B. Illinois 1889 
Waterman, L. E., New York 1870 
Watson, Chas. S , N. H 1869 
Wea.nl, Geo., Pennsylvania 1889 
Welles, R.W., Connecticut 1872 
Wendell, Canada., Illinois 1888 
West, Mrs. Mary, New York 1876 
Whitaker, John, New York 1869 
Whyte, Fred M., New York 1884: 
Wiest, Ezra, Pennsylvania 1875 
Wightman.Chas.S., Rhode Island. .1871 
Wild, John. P.. Mass 1885-86 
Wildman, W.E., Ohio 1876 
Wildman, Mrs. W. E. .Ohio 1876 
Windsor, Prof. WilliamL.L. B. Texas 1888 
Windsor, Mme. D, D„ Texas 1888 
Winkler, Henry, Indiana 1877 
Winter, Catherine A.. Ohio 1888 
Wood, Oscar D., New.Tersey 1875 
Wood, Elbertß., Kentucky .'. 1879 
Wood.N.W., Missouri 1887 
Worrail, M. 8., Ohio. 1877 
Worsnop, Bev..T.W„ Missouri 1889 
Wv scarcer, T, J. Ohio 1874 
Young, C.P.E., Sweden ,1883 
Young, Henry Ohio 1873 
*Pceeased, FIELD NOTES. 
31 
So many of enr students are making a good mark as lecturers, or in the 
other professions, that we can not find room for extended notices of them. 
We give below brief notes of some who are in the field. There may be 
omissions, and we hope our friends will report to us their plans that a note 
may be made for future use. 
Dr. D. Hugo Campbell, of class ’B7, attended another session of the Institute 
this year, and has arranged to take an Edison Phonograph into the field to 
assist him in his work, and will visit towns in New Jersey, New York State, 
and other points. The Doctor is full of enthusiasm, and promises to send 
100 subscribers to the Phrenological Journal during the coming year. 
Prof, and Mrs. Morris have spent the last year in Minneapolis, where at 
last accounts they were still doing good work, lecturing, making examina- 
tions, an J teaching classes. They have always been successful in making- 
long stops at different points, but this is an unusual stay even for them, and 
speaks well for their drawing power. They are now in Saint Paul. 
R. O. Dieuis, Valedictorian of the class of ’B9, has been a successful lecturer 
for ten years in the South. He merits respect and patronage. 
Prof. E .E. Candee is infMinnesota and Wisconsin doing good work. He finds 
the field a congenial one and is successful. 
Prof. and Mrs. Windsor are visiting the principal and large towns in the 
West, where they draw large houses and make it pay. 
Prof .W.G. Alexander, class of ’B4, who paid us a visit during the late 
summer months with his bride, reports from Texas, where he finds the out- 
look promising. 
Dr. B. P. Pratt is lecturing in Kansas and Nebraska, accept ably, and sowing 
phrenological seed, which always brings forth good fruit. He is selling many 
of our publications. 
Prof. V. P. English, class’B6, after having made a very successful profes- 
sional visit to the great West has entered the Medical College at Cincinnati 
for the winter, which will augment his power to do good when he re-enters 
the field. 
Prof.H.E. Swain, class’7o, still visiting what might be called his con- 
stituents, and his parish in New'Bngland, where he has worked so long and 
faithfully and sold such a large number of Heads and Faces, and other books. 
He, too, is booked for a large number of subscribers to the Journal. 
Prof. S. F. De Vore, class 86, who lectured and taught classes so successfully 
inN. Y. and Pa., is up in lowa, and will go farther West. He reports a 
bright outlook. 
Dr. Oliver, class ’B5, is in his own State, lowa, where he is lecturing success- 
fully and making friends for .Phrenology. He writes for the Journal. 
Rev. A. C .Dill, class 'B3, is still in charge of a congregation in N. J., and 
gave instructions in Elocution again to the class of 'B9. 
Rev. David Dodds, M. D., paid us a visit the past year, and is as full of fire 
and enthusiasm for the subject as ever. 
Rev. R. E. McDuff, class of ’73, now pastor of an Episcopal Church in Detroit, 
Mich, and a delegate to the Episcopal Convention recently held in this city, 
spent some time here, and was present at the closing exercises of the Insti- 
tute, and made a short address which was full of practical suggestions. 
Rev. Arthur M. Growden, class of’BB, has removed from Tennessee and is 
settled at Sacramento, Cal. He writes, “ I find Phrenology useful to me 
every day.” 
Rev. J. Boyd Espy, class of ’75. is pastor of Simpson M. B. Church, Erie, Pa., 
and writes, “ I am in love with the sciencelt helps him to deal with Human 
Nature “with the understanding.” 
Rev. Dr. Hunter, of Canada, class of’B7, having char-ge of a large church, 
does not find much leisure to lecture on Mental Science, but his head and 
heart, are in the work of brain culture and the improvement of human 
character. 
Mat. W. Alderson has given up his editorial labors in Montana, and we 
trust he has “ burned the bridges behind him ” in entering the Phrenologi- 
cal field. 
Prof. Edgar C. Beall is still located in Cincinnati, and from the frequent 
orders he sends us for books we know he is awaking interest in the subject. 
Miss Loretta Moran spent a part of the summer in Canada, and is now in FIELD NOTES. 
Washington, D. 0. Her special forte is parlor gathering’s, where she gives 
short talks on thesubiect and makes examinations. 
Prof. Foster has closed his office in Louisville for lecturing at present, and is 
now in the field. He has been in Ohio principally for the past tew mouths. 
He also proposes to send a good list of subscribers to the Journal, for the 
coming year. 
Dr. A. Wallace Mason, after taking a course of instruction at the Hygienic 
College in St. Louis, has located in Cleveland, Ohio, where he is practicing 
both the "Healing Art" and Phrenology. 
Prof. Hatfield, class of’BB, is winning high praise for his excellent work 
from the press and people of England. 
Dr. U. B. Trear writes us that after a sumraer’srest we may expect to hear 
from him again soon, probably in his own State, lowa. 
Henry S. Bartholomew, class’Bs, is engaged in educational and other work 
in Indiana, and writes us that he has accepted an invitation to give a course 
of lectures before Farmers’ Clubs and Societies in that State. 
L. C. Bateman, class of ’7O, continues to confine his work to New England, 
which he finds to be ample territory. 
Professor Ira Guilford, of the class of’7l, who has worked in Michigan and 
the West, has settled in Maryland, and is pushing tiie work vigorously there 
andin Delaware, sending largeorders for “ Heads and Faces, ” 
Perry L. Nichols, of the class of’B7, has been doing a good work in the Nor- 
mal school at Valparaiso, Ind., and has entered upon the study of law. 
Geo. W. Dutton, class of ’B7, reports a live interest in the subject in the far 
West, where he is doing a good business. 
W. P. Underwood, class of’BB, is working successfully m Missouri. He was 
born into a family of brain, of reform and progress, and his good work and 
success are assured by inheritance and by personal power. 
Howell B. Parker, of the class of ’75.'80, and ’B5 is teaching in Georgia, He 
is admirably well posted and well equipped for his work, and we bespeak for 
him respect, confidence, and patronage. 
J.B. Harris, class of’BB, obtains many subscribers for the Journal, and is 
thus spreading Phrenology by word and deed. 
David M. King, of the class of’67, has been lecturing in the regular course 
in the Business College of Cleveland, Ohio, thus bringing Phrenology before 
those who are to take the lead in the business world. Nothing better could 
be done for the students in such an institution. 
U. J, Hoffman, of the class of ’74, being associate principal of Hayward 
Collegiate Instil ute,’makes his worthy work a means of great good. Every 
teacher should understand the science of mind as revealed by Phrenology. 
Mr. Hoffman has written a most valuable work: “The Science of Mind Ap- 
plied to Teaching," as the outcome of his course of instruction in the Insti- 
tute. Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers. 
M. T. Richardson, class’7o, is the publisher of three very important Trade 
Journals in this city; "Boots and Shoes,” a weekly, one of the most important 
periodicals devoted to that trade; also the “Blacksmith and Wheelwright,” 
and the “Saw-Mill Gazette." 
Samuel Grob keeps up an agitation on the subject to the people of his 
community, which results in frequent subscriptions to the Journal and sale 
of books. 
Prof. Levi Hummel has not reported for the coming year, but if in the 
field, we shall hear from him with good reports. 
Dr. Duncan McDonald, classof ’67,who has been interested in some large real 
estate transactions during the past lew years, promises an increased interest 
in tbe Journal and the subject. He visited us in November. 
W. N. Riddell is in Nebraska, and finds it a good field. 
Rev. J. Duke McFaden, class ’B9, has ordered a good outfit and a large 
Stock of circulars, and is preparing to enter the field in the vicinity of Phil- 
adelphia for the present. 
Dr. Holt, class ’B9, was the first student to report an order for supplies and 
is lecturing m Pennsylvania. 
Others of the last class have entered the field but have not yet reported 
their whereabouts, or their success, but thus far, those in the field find 
indications of a prosperous season’s business. We wish in this way to urge 
all graduates of the Institute and all friends of the subject to interest, them- 
selves in sending subscribers to the JoußNALfor the coming year. This is a 
great seed-sower, and if we could have 100,000 subscription to the Journal 
or even 50,000 it would a,waken an interest in the subject that would be felt 
widely. 'm.a AMERICAN INSTITUTE OH PStRENOLOSY. 
THE CHARTER 
In Act to incorporate “THE INSTITUTE OF PHRENOLOGY.” 
Passed April 20, 1865, by the juegislature of the State ot New York. 
“ The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly 
dc enact as follows: 
Section 1. Amos Dean, Esq., Horace Greeley, Samuel Osgood, D. D., A. Oakey 
Hull, Esq,, Russell T. Trail, M.D., Henry Dexter, Samuel R. Wells, Edward P. 
Fowler, M .D., Nelson Sizer, Lester A.Roberts and their associates, are here- 
by constituted a body corporate by the name of “THE AMERICAN INSTI- 
TUTE OP PHRENOLOGY, ” for the purpose of promoting- instruction in all 
departments of learning connected therewith, and for collecting- and preserv- 
ing Crania, Casts, Busts, and other representations of the different Races, 
Tribes, and Pamilies of men. 
Section 2. The said corporation may hold real estate and personal estate to 
the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, and the funds and properties 
thereof shall not be used for any other purposes than those declared in the 
first section of this Act. 
Sections. The said Henry Dexter, Samuel R. Wells, Edward P. Fowler, M. 
D., Nelson Sizer, and Lester A. Roberts are hereby appointed Trustees of said 
corporation, with power to fill vacancies in the Board. No less than three 
Trustees snail constitute aquorum for the transaction of business. 
Section 4. It shall belawful b r the Board of Trustees to appoint Lecturers 
and such other instructors as they may deem necessary and advisable, 
subject to removal when found expedient and necessary, by'a vote of two- 
t lirds of the members constitutingsaid Board;but no such appointment shall 
be made until the applicant shall have passed a personal examination before 
the Board. 
Section 5. The Society shall keep for free public exhibition at all proper 
times, such collections of Skulls, Busts, Casts, Paintings, and other things 
connected therewith, as they may obtain. They shall give, by a competent 
person or persons, a course of not less than six free lectures' in each and 
every year, and shall have annually a class for instruction in Practical 
Phrenology, to which shall be admitted gratuitously at least one student from 
each Public School in the City of New York. 
Section 6. The corporation shall possess the powers and be subject to the 
provisions of Chapter 18, part 1, of the Revised Statutes, so far as applicable. 
Section 7. This Act shall take effect immediately.” 
Among those who have been engaged as lecturers in connection with the 
Institute for many years, we may mention the following: 
THE FACULTY OF INSTRUCTION. 
Nelson Sizer, the chief Examiner in the office of Fowler & Wells for forty 
years, lectures on the Theory and Practice of Phrenology and Physiognomy, 
and brings unsurpassed experience as an examiner to the instruction of stu- 
dents in the application of Phrenology to choice of pursuits on adaptation 
in marriage, the study of temperament on the Jiving subject, health, etc. 
H. S. Drayton, M. D„ editor of the Phrenological journal, treats of 
Mental Science and its relations to Physiology and Metaphysics, including the 
lines of thought and investigation which have led up to the present state of 
human science. 
Mrs. Charlotte Fowler Wells lectures on the History and Progress of Phre- 
nology in America. Mrs. Wells being familiar with all that has been done tc 
make phrenology practical, popular and useful to the home and the commu- 
nity.her work for students is eminently useful and always becomes memor- 
able. 
Nelson B. Sizer, M, I),, Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of Body and Brain. 
John Ordronaux, M. D., L. L.D., late State Commissioner of Lunacy, 
lectures on Insanity and Jurisprudence. 
Robert A. Gunn. M. D., Magnetism and Psychology. 
Rev. A.Cushing Dill, Elocution and Vocal Culture in relation to Public 
Speaking. ADVICE FOR STr;DEV. 
Xu coming to New York you should purchase a through ticket if possible, 
and if you have a trunk or valise which you do not need on the way. get it 
checked, and thus save care. 
Students should prepare the means for payment of tuition and their neces- 
sary expenses during their stay in New York, before they come. Those who 
can do it should biing their funds in drafts, then they are not subject to the 
danger of losing their money on the way. Those who bring money can have 
it deposited in bank while here, thus preventing the possibility of loss. 
We advise students after buying their passage tickets, to have only so much 
money within reach as will pay their current expenses on the way here. The 
balance, if notin form of draft, should be sewed into a pocket in the under- 
garment. Nor should students inform strangers who they are, where they 
come from, where they are going, or their business in New York. For in all 
large cities there are always men on the lookout for strangers, whose busi- 
ness it is to employ some cunning device to rob them. 
On landing at Jersey City from the West or South, retain your baggage 
check—pay no attention to agents on the train—and come to our office, 75,5 
Broadway, above Ninth street. If you come into the city in the night, go to 
the St. Nicholas Hotel, 713 Broadway, corner Washington Place, two bloc vs 
from our office 
ROOMS AND BOARD. 
Boarding can always be obtained near the Institute at moderate pric 
Prom four to five dollars a week usually cover the expense. Sometime, 
hygienic students club together and cakerooms and procure their own fooo. 
to suit themselves, and thus make a saving of expense. 
We take special pains to aid students to find desirable quarters and to 
facilitate any purchases which they may wish to make, or give them direc 
tions as to places of interest to be visited, and the proper way to make their 
stay in the city safe, pleasant, and instructive. 
HEALTH IN NEW YORK. 
We believe New York, with its present modern improvements for cleanli 
ness and ventilation, is as healthy a place as there is in the land, unless it b 
some mountain-top. And most of our students not only maintain then 
health, perfectly, but gain during the course sometimes ten pounds in 
weight. 
OUTFIT. 
Some ask us in respect to outfit. Our reply is, that one can spend from fifty 
dollars to two hundred dollars in the way of outfit, or can start 
with a very little, and add to it as he has means and feels disposed. A man 
can start with nothing but his hands and his tongue to work with. He may 
start with ten dollars in the Way of apparatus and material, but he would do 
better with fifty dollars. 
Those who contemplate visiting the city for the purpose of attending the 
Institute, will do well to cut out and bring this article in their pocket for 
reference when about to reach New York, so as to avoid confusion and 
mistakes. 
SECOND COURSE STUDENTS. 
As an evidence of the value of the Institute course, we may mention that 
nearly every year one or more students return to take a second course, which 
is afforded to them at a nominal sum, and we notice the marked difference in 
second-year students, especially after they have been in the field, and learned 
to make practical their knowledge. 
FEES REDUCED. 
Theterms of instruction wore four years since reduced, making then, fifty 
dollars to all. instead of a hundred dollars for men and sevent.v-flve for wom- 
en, as formerly. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHRENQLOUY. 
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 
The session of 18&0 will open on the First Tuesday of Sep- 
tember. There is Out One Session during the year. 
This is the only institution of the kind in the world where a 
course of thorough and practical instruction in Phrenology is 
given, and nowhere else can be found such facilities as are 
possessed by the American Institute of Phrenology, consisting 
of a large cabinet of skulls—human and animal—with busts, 
casts, portraits, anatomical preparations, skeletons, plates, 
models, etc., and some teachers of fifty years’ experience. 
Nelson Sizer, President. C. Fowler Wells, Vice-President. 
Henry S. Drayton, A. M.. M. D., Secretary. 
By action of the Board of Trustees, the Fowler & Wells Com- 
pany has been appointed financial and business agent. All 
communications should be addressed, 
FOWLER & WELLS C 0.,775 Broadway, New York* 
THE COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 
This consists of more than one hundred lecture? and lessons 
covering a term of Six Weeks—one lesson being given each 
morning, and two during the afternoon. 
TOPICS EMBODIED IN THE COURSE. 
General Principles. The philosophy of the organic con- 
stitution, its relation to mind, character, and motive; mental 
philosophy, or the efforts of the best thinkers in all ages to find 
out the laws and operations of the mind and give their specu- 
lations the form of science. Superiority of Phrenology over 
every other system. 
Temperament, as indicating quality and giving tone and 
peculiarity to mental manifestation, also as affecting the choice 
of occupation; the law of harmony and heredity as connected 
with the marriage relations ; what constitutes a proper combina- 
tion of temperaments with reference to health, long life, 
tendency to talent, virtue, and vice. The subject will be large- 
ly illustrated by subjects of real life before the class. Extended 
drilling of the students on this important topic. 
Phrenology. Mental development explained; the true 
mode of estimating character according to phreno'ogicaJ 
principles; Comparative Phrenology, the development and 
peculiarities of the animal kingdom; the facial angle, embody- COXJBSB OF INSTRUCTION 
injr curious and interesting facts relative to the qualities and 
habits of the animals; instinct and reason; the Phrenology of 
crime; imbecility and idiocy; the elements of force, energy, 
industry, perseverance ; the governing and aspiring groups; 
the division between the intellectual, spiritual, and animal 
regions of the brain, arid how to ascertain this in the living 
head; the memory, how to develop and improve it; location 
of the organs of the brain, how to estimate their size, absolute 
and relative. 
Physiognomy. The relations between the brain and the 
face, and between one part of the system and another as iudicat 
ing character, talent, and peculiarities, voice, walk, etc. 
History of Phrenology in America and Europe, and 
the struggles and sacrifices of its pioneers in disseminating its 
principles, especially in this country; and its enriching influence 
on education, literature, domestic life, government, morality, 
and religion. 
Ethnology. The races and tribes ot men, their peculiarities 
and how to judge of nativity of race; especially how to detect 
infallibly the skulls of the several colored races. 
Dissection and demonstration of the human brain; micro- 
scopic illustrations of different parts of the system in health and 
disease. 
Anatomy and Physiology. The brain and nervous 
system; the bones and muscles ; how to maintain bodily vigor 
and the proper support of the brain; reciprocal influence of 
brain and body; respiration; circulation; digestion; growth and 
decay of the body ; exercise ; sunlight ; sleop. 
Objections to Phrenology, whether anatomical, physi- 
ological, practical, or religious, will be considered; how the 
skull enlarges to give room for the growing brain; the frontal 
sinus;loss or injury of the brain;thickness of the skull; fatalism 
materialism, moral responsibility, etc. 
Phrenology and Religion. The moral bearings of Phre- 
nology, and a correct physiology; their relation to religion; 
home training of the young as applied to education and virtue. 
Choice of Occupations. Special attention will be given to 
this branch of the subject; what organizations are adapted to 
the different professions and pursuits, and how to put “the 
right man in the right place, ” in actual life. 
Phrenology and Marriage. The right relation of the 
sexes; what mental and temperamental qualities are adapted to 
a happy union and a healthy offspring, and why. 
Natural Language of the Faculties. The attitudes, mo- 
tions, carriage of the head, style of speech, from the activity of 
the different organs, and how to read character thereby. 
Examinations of heads explained; practical experiments; COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 
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heads examined by each of the students, who will be thorough- 
ly trained and instructed how to make examinations privately 
and publicly; especi illy training in the examination of skulls. 
Hygiene How to take care of the body as to dress, rest, 
recreation, food, diet, right and wrong habits; what food is best 
for persons of different temperaments and pursuits; what food 
tends to make one fat or lean; what feeds brain or muscle; 
stimulants, their nature and abuse ; what to avoid and why. 
Psychology. Under this head, mesmerism and clairvoy- 
ance will be explained, and the laws discussed on which they 
are supposed to depend. 
Heredity. The law of inheritance in general and in particu- 
lar; resemblance to parents, how to determine which parent a 
person resembles; what features of face, what glasses of faculties 
or portions of the general build are inherited from the father 
or from the mother. 
Insanity, its laws and peculiarities; the faculties in which 
different persons are most likely to be insane, and how to detect 
it in a person. 
Idiocy, its causes and how to avoid them ; its peculiarities 
and how to understand them; how to detect it where the head 
is well-formed. 
Elocution. How to cultivate the voice; eloquence, how to 
attain the art; careful instruction in reading and speaking with 
a view to success in the lecture field. 
How to Hectare. The best methods of presenting Phre- 
nology and Physiology to the public; how to obtain audiences 
and howto hold and instruct them; general business manage- 
ment in connection with the lecture field. 
Review and Examination. Questions on all points 
rel ding to the subject, which maybe proposed by the students, 
answered; in turn, students will be examined on the topics 
taught, who will give in their own words their knowledge of 
the subject. No recitations or memorizing will be required. 
How to apply Phrenology practically in reading charac- 
ter by the combinations of faculties, and how to assign to each 
person the true field of effort in education, business, social 
adaptation, and, in short, how to make life a success and its 
opportunities the means of happiness. 
Finally, the aim of the instructors to transfer to students, 
so far as it is possible, all the knowledge of Anthropology which 
a long experience in the practice of their profession has 
enabled them to acquire—in a word, to qualify students to take 
influential places in this man-improving field of usefulness. 
TERMS.—The cost of tuition for the full course, including 
diploma, for ladies and gentlemen, is reduced to $5O. The 
lowness of the terms should insure a large class. Incidental 
expenses in New Tork, including board, peed not cost moie 38 
STUDENT.S’ TEXT-BOOKS. 
than $35. We aid students in getting good rooms or board. 
It is desirable that all who intend to be students should send 
in their names at an early day. For further information ad- 
dress, Fowler & Wells Co., 775 Broadway, New York. 
STUDENTS’ TEXT-BOOKS. 
Among the works most useful to be studied by those who wish 
to master Phrenology, whether at home or to prepare to attend 
the “Institute,” we recommend the following “Student’s Set,” 
and in the order named. Be sure and learn from the Bust the 
location of the organs, and their nature and use from the books. 
Brain and Mind ; or, Mental Science Considered in Accord- 
ance with the Principles of Phrenology and in relation to Mod- 
ern Phvsiologyi Illustrated. By H. S. Drayton, A. M., M. D. 
and Jas. McNiel, A, M. $1.50. 
How To Read Character. A New Illustrated Hand-book 
of Phrenology and Physiognomy, for students and examiners, 
with upward of one hundred and seventy engravings. By 8. R. 
Weils. $1.35. 
The Phrenological Bust, showing the location of each of 
the Organs. Large size. $l.OO. 
Choice ol Pursuits; or, What to do and Why. De- 
scribing seventy-five trades and professions, and the tempera- 
ments and talents required for each. Also, how to educate on 
phrenological man for his proper work; togeth- 
er with more than one hundred portraits and biographies of 
successful thinkers and workers. By Nelson Sizer. $3.00. 
Heads and Faces, and How to Study Them. A manual o 
Phrenology and physiognomy for the people. By Nelson Sizer 
and H. S. Drayton. Oct., paper. 40c. 
Forty Years in Phrenology ; Embracing Recollections of 
History. Anecdotes, and. Experience. Illustrated. By Nelson 
Sizer. $1.50. 
New Physiognomy ; or, Signs of Character, as manifested 
through temperament and external forms, and especially in 
the “Human Face Divine.” With more than one. thousand 
illustrations. By S. R. Wells. $5.00. 
Constitution of Man; Considered in relation to external 
objects. The only authorized American edition. With twenty 
engravings and portrait of the author. By George Combe. $1.25. 
Popular Physiology. A Familiar Exposition of the Struct- 
ures, and Relations of the Human System and the 
preservation of health. By R. T. Trail, M. D. $l.OO. 
N. B.'—If a person already has one or more of the above 
books, he may order, in place of it, any other work of our 
publication of equal price. 
Either of the above will be sent by mail on receipt of price, or 
the complete “ Student’s Set,” amounting to $14.90 will be sent 
by express for $lO.OO. Address, 
FOWLER & WELLS C 0„ 775 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. THE STUDY OF HUMAN NATURE. 
In the study of Human Nature we find one person who is full of lire 
■ and needs guidance and restraint, another timid and diffident, lacking 
in force and fortitude, and needs encouragetnent; another is too senti- 
mental and should be taught the need of a more practical life; another is 
given to sordid greed, and worships, if not the Golden Calf,” the gold 
that might make one; another requires, advice as to diet and daily habit 
and hygiene ; another is precocious, too imaginative, too intellectual, 
and needs ballasting and instruction in the way of daily habit and eco- 
nomic duty; another is imperious, irascible, and impatient; another is 
inclined to dissipation ; another desires to know what he can do best, 
what kind of trade, business, or profession his talents, constitution, and 
aptitudes best fit him for; another is broken down by over-work or over- 
study and needs information as to the cause and cure of the trouble. 
Occasionally there may be a man so harmonized in body and mind, 
so smoothly related to life that he does not need help from physician, 
phrenologist, or life insurance company. Most people , however, need 
something to fill out their deficiencies or restrain their excesses, or to 
guide their forces. As a locomotive carries its headlight in its front'and 
illuminates a mile or two of track in advance of itself, so a proper 
description, phrenologically and physiologically, is calculated to illu- 
mine the-pathway of life, and if it does not make the grade easier it 
makes the transit* more safe and sure. 
The purpose of a Phrenological Examination is to study the Tem- 
perament, or constitution in relation to health, talent, and character, 
and how the different vital organs are developed and act with each 
other in the promotion of physical and mental harmony and power. 
Next the size of the brain and the quality which the temperament gives 
it; then the developments of the different groups of organs ; those of 
intellect, perception, memory, reason; those of force and energy, of 
policy, prudence, thrift, ingenuity, taste, refinement; those of aspir- 
ation, pride, self-reliance, ambition; those of social power and affec- 
tion ; and last, the strength and tendency of the moral sentiments. 
We do not, as some suppose, look for little hills and hollows or bumps, 
but at the distance or length of fiber from the basilar center of the brain. 
We also describe the adaptations of each person for given pursuits, 
in which their abilities can be used to the best advantage. We teach 
parents how to understand their precocious children who need prudent 
care to save them, also how to train turbulent and vicious children, to 
bring their moral and intellectual powers into the ascendant. 
Our cabinet, containing hundreds of busts, casts, portraits and sketches 
of men and women, noted and notorious, from all classes, including 
statesmen, soldiers, lawyers, divines, inventors, philanthropists, etc., 
with murderers, pirates, and others from the lower walks of life, with 
many recent additions, is catalogued and free for the inspection of 
visitors daily. Citizens and strangers will find this one of the most 
pleasant places in the city in which to spend an hour. 
bur rooms, centrally located at 775 Broadway, are near various lines of 
horse cars and stations on the elevated roads. To persons at a distance, 
and those who do not find it convenient to visit our office, we would say 
very satisfactory examinations can be made from properly taken 
pictures and measurements which can be given. For full particulars 
in regard to this, send for circular called Mirror of the Mind. Address 
FOWLER & WELLS CO., Publishers. 775 Broadway, New York. W|o rn StHfly Plmology? 
Young Men who have to work their own way toeminence'. 
It will be an advantage to them to be able to understand those wit: 
whom they come in contact, will it not ? 
Young Women? Will they not find value in being able 
to judge correctly the worth of young men who may pay then 
addresses? If they must earn their own living, will anything assist 
them more than the ability to measure persons correctly ? 
Mothers? Do they not need help in the proper manage 
ment and training of their children ? Will anything help them like 
understanding the peculiarities of the little ones ? 
Housekeepers? Can all servants be treated alike? Is 
there any science, aside from Phrenology, that will tell why they 
cannot? Is it not of value to know who may be dictated to and who 
will be the best kind of help if orders are given as suggestions? 
Clergymen ? They must be familiar with the operations 
of the mind, must they not ? When they can demonstrate to selfish 
men that they maybe happier in this life as well as hereafter, by 
cultivating their moral natures, they will have added power, will 
they not ? 
Lawyers? Must they not judge their clients? Must they 
not be able tell the nature of witnesses and their desire to tell the 
.truth, and also to understand each man on the jury to be able to 
appeal to them effectively? 
Physicians? They must consider the constitutions and idio- 
syncrasies of their patients as well as their ailments, must they not ? 
Teachers? Do they find all the pupils alike? Can they 
tell why they are not? Will they not be aided by knowing whom to 
encourage and how manag'e the obstreperous, the dull and the 
precocious ? 
Agents ? Will they not be aided by ability to read strangers ? 
Will it not be an advantage to them to know with whom they 
may be free and social and with whom dignified and reserved, etc.? 
Managers? They will be helped if they know before em- 
ploying a person that he will prove competent, will they not ? They 
will be aided if they can reject intelligently such as apply that are 
not adapted to the work in hand, will they not? 
Every body ? If not, why not ? Is there any other system of 
mental philosophy that will enable a man to know himself and his 
neighbors ? Is it not of advantage to every person to possess such 
knowledge ? 
Where ? The American Institute of Phrenology is the only 
place where a thorough course of instruction is given with its appli- 
cation to all the affairs of life. Here are the most competent in- 
structors in the world and the largest cabinet and apparatus in 
existence. For full particulars address 
FOWLER & WELLS GO., 775 Broadway, New York. Plpoloi for Business Men, 
Business men who hav6 to deal with other men, whether 
strangers or not, should have a full knowledge of Human Nature. 
Some have this intuitively, and form correct impressions, but even 
with these impressions, they will understand the motives of men, 
and know how to deal with them better, if they know why people 
are what they are. Others are, by nature, easily misled in their 
estimates of Human Character, certainly such should make this a 
matter of study; not only will this help to understand customers 
and to know how to deal with them so as to please them, but this 
knowledge will enable the possessor of it to handle men to his own 
advantage, whether in getting the best result,s from their work, or 
in knowing how to influence them to do that which is desired. 
Some men can be forced by a strong pressure being- brought to 
bear, and will yield their wishes to others. Some men with large 
Combative ness and Destructiveness cannot be forced, but can be 
coaxed or influenced to do the thing- desired. The man or woman 
who understands this subject will not make mistakes in their at- 
tempts to accomplish the desired results in life. At each session 
of the American Institute of Phrenology there are a number of 
business men who have no other motive in attending except to ob- 
tain this knowledge for application in the practical affairs of life. 
One of the students of a recent class, a business man residing in 
this city, permits us'to publish his opinion as to the value of the 
course of instruction, as follows: 
“After attending the course of lectures of the American Institute of Phren- 
ology for the season of 1887,1 take pleasure in saying I have derived a great deal of 
practical benefit from them, and am very much surprised that a subject which has 
been so ably and elaborately explained and taught should receive so little atten- 
tion from practical business men. Although I have been compelled to neglect 
pressing business engagements to attend this course of lectures, at the same time 
I feel satisfied that they have well repaid me for the time I have devoted to them, 
and as far as the expense is concerned, I consider it one of the best investments I 
ever made. 
A very important thing to every business man is an education which will 
enable him to put the right man in the right place, and I know of no course of 
instruction that will compare with Phrenology in this important matter.” 
Clinton E. Brush. 
Manager Chicago Corset Co., 403 Broadway, N. Y. 
The man who best understands Human Character, by study or 
experience, is the one who will work most successfully and with 
the least wear and tear of mind and body, among men, in the 
transaction of business. The American Institute of Phrenology 
was organized for the purpose of giving this instruction, and we 
will be glad to give any information that may be desired relating 
to the matter. Address 
FOWLER & WELLS CO., 
775 Broadway? JYeu’ York, THE PHRENOLOGICAL MUSEUM 
775 BROADWAY, N. Y. 
This is the only collection of the kind and contains 
Casts from Life and Busts of hundreds of cele- 
brated people in whom the public are interested. 
Among others the following of many of these no 
duplicates are in existence, and the originals have 
been procured at great expense. 
Napoleon, I.; Webster, Lincoln, John C. Calhoun, 
Henry Clay, Grant, Voltaire, Thos. Paine, Gui- 
teau, Lord Byron, Dante, Bryant, Edison, Hux- 
ley, Gen. Hancock, Gerritt Smith, Chastine Cox, 
Rugg, Idiot Family (Hillings), Laura Bridge man 
(deaf, dumb, and blind), Cuvier, Prof. Morse 
mask of napoleon i. Edwin Forest, Kean, Walter Scott, Robt. Burns- 
John Quincy Adams, Gall, Spurzheim, Dr. Tanner, McClellan, Henry 
Ward Beecher, Dr. Cox, Dr. Valentine Mott, Mrs. Gottfried (murderess), 
Salmon P. Chase, Houdans, Washington, Sumner, Cardinal McClosky, 
Thos. H. Benton, Black Hawk, Aaron Burr, Alex. Hamilton, O’Connell, 
Gilmore, Washington Irving, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Oliver Crom- 
well, Wordsworth, Colridge, Tom Moore, Sir Isaac Newton, Patty Can- 
non, a case water-brain; Hara Waukay(New Zealand Cannibal), Elihu 
Burritt, Gen. Scott, Franklin, Greeley, Seward, Jas. Fisk, John Kelly, 
Rich. B. Sheridan, Lord Chatham, Robt. Bruce, Win. Pitt, Rev. John 
Pierpont, Robt. Dale Owen, Dr. Hahneman, Dr. Casnochen, Dr. New- 
man, Dr. Aicott, Chas. Dickens, Raphael, Pres. Barnard, Dio Lewis, 
Pere Hyacinth, Flat-headed Indian, Captain Cook, Osceola, Horace 
Mann, Dr. Sami. Howe, Dr. Trail, Francis Wright, Frederick, the Great, 
Dean Swift, Martin Van Buren, Milliard Fillmore, Zack Taylor, Jas. K. 
Polk, Lafayette, Rev. Leonard Bacon, Neanderthal, Man and Gorilla, 
Mad Malibran, Sylvester Graham, John C. Fremont, Dupuytren, Dr. 
Chalmers, and many others. 
Among the many portraits and sketches in Oil and Crayon are the fol- 
lowing; Gladstone, Parnell, Dr. McCosh, Win. M. Evarts, Wendell Phillips, 
C. Vanderbilt, W. Vanderbilt, Geo. Peabody, Fred Douglass, John Brown, 
Henry Wilson, Mark Lemon, H.Dana, Stewart Mills, Rich. Cobden, Tup- 
per, Rosa Bonheur, Robt. E. Lee, Gustave Dore, McMahon, Emerson, 
Peter Cooper, Stanton, John B. Gough, Maximilian, Alex. H. Stephens, 
Jefferson Davis, Christine Neilson, Michael]Angelo, Schuyler Colfax, Brig- 
ham Young, Francis Wayland, Dr. Morgan Dix, Disraeli, Bancroft, 
Goethe, Caesar, Wm.Lloyd Garrison, S. H. Tyng, The Duke of Welling- 
ton, Edgar A. Poe, Thier, Agassiz, John Jacob Astor, Pope, Alexander 
VI., Dr. Guthrie, Lucretia Mott, Stephen Girard, Mrs. Garfield, De 
Lesseps, Gov. Francis Train, Grace Greenwood, Talmage and many others. 
These with many others are catalogued and on free exhibition. You 
are cordially invited to spend an hour, more or less, at our rooms at any 
time, where a competent person will freely answer your inquiries. 
FOWLER & WELLS CO., Phrenologists and Publishers, 
775 BROADWAY, R Y. WORKS BY NELSON SIZER. 
Choice of Pursuits; or, What to Do and Why, describing Seventy- 
five Trades and Professions, and the Temperaments and Talents re- 
quired for each; with Portraits and Biographies of many successful 
Thinkers and Workers. By NeiAon Sizer, Associate Editor of the 
“Phrenological Journal,” President of, and Teacher in, the 
“American Institute of Phrenology,” 13mo, extra cloth, 508 pp. $3.00. 
This work fills a place attempted by no other. Whoever has to earn 
a living by labor of head or hand, can not afford to do without it. 
How to Teach According to Temperament and Mental Develop- 
ment ; or, Phrenology in the School-room and the Family. With many 
illustrations. 12mo, extra cloth, 351 pp. Price, $1.50. 
One of the greatest difficulties in the training of children arises from 
not understanding their temperament and disposition. This work points 
out the constitutional differences, and how to make the most of each. 
Forty Years in Phrenology. Embracing Recollections of History, 
Anecdote, and Experience. 12mo, extra cloth, 418 pp. Price, $1.50. 
The volume is filled with history, anecdotes, and incidents pathetic, 
witty, droll, and startling. Every page sparkles with reality, and is 
packed with facts too good to be lost. 
Heads and Faces; How to Study them. A new Manual of Charac- 
ter Reading for the People, by Professor Nelson Sizer and Dr. H. S. 
Drayton. It tells all about the subject and contains 200 pages, 250 
striking illustrations from life. Paper, 40 cents; cloth, $l. * 
Thoughts on Domestic Life; or, Marriage Vindicated and Free 
iove Exposed. 12mo, paper, 25 cents. 
The Education of the Feelings and Affections. By Charles Bray. 
Edited, with Notes and illustrations from the third London edition, by 
Nelson Sizer. 12mo, extra cloth, $1.50. 
Tobacco; Its Effects on the Human System, Physical, Intellectual, 
and Moral. By Dr. William A. Alcott. With Notes, Additions, and 
Illustrations by Nelson Sizer. 151 pp. Paper, 25 cents. 
Tea and Coffee; Their Effects on the Human System, Physical, 
Intellectual, and Moral. By Dr. William A. Alcott. With Notes, Ad- 
ditions, and Illustrations, by Nelson Sizer. Price, 25 cents. 
Self-Reliance or Self-Esteem as an element in Human Character, 
Its uses and culture, 10 cents. 
On Choice of Occupation; or, my Right Place in Life, and How ta 
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