13th October - Phrenological Genres

The Michaelmas Term meetings of the Science and Literature Reading Group begin this evening from 7.30-9pm in the Newnham Grange seminar room at Darwin College. I will be at the Porter's Lodge at 7.25pm to meet those unfamiliar with the college.

We commence our explorations of all things cerebral with that perennially popular topic, phrenology. All readings can be found online (click titles for links):

• Thomas Hood, 'Craniology' (1827)
• Charles Tennyson, 'Phrenology' (1827)
• John Trotter, Travels in Phrenologasto, chapter II, pages 17-26. (1829)
• 'A Phrenopatetic History' (1826)

 Optional additional reading:

•  The Craniad; or, Spurzheim Illustrated (1817)
  
• Craniology Burlsequed, in Three Serio-Comic Lectures, Lecture II (1816)

I hope to see old friends and new faces this evening - please feel free to come along and join in the discussions even if you don't manage to complete all of the readings.