Record Number: 26793

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Monday. 16 February 1829: 'Went to the Royal Society. There Sir William Hamilton read an Essay, the result of some anatomical investigations, which containd a maskd battery against the phrenologists. It seems these worthies are agreed that the cerebellum is that part of the headpiece which influences the sexual organs and according to this hypothesis that same cerebellum should be stronger in men than in women, in adults than in children, in old men than in youths, in persons mutilated than in those who are in the natural state [...] But if Sir William's course of experiments are correct the very opposite is the truth.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

16 Feb 1829

Country:

Scotland

Time

evening

Place:

city: Edinburgh
specific address: Royal Society

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Sir William Hamilton

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Professor of Civil History, Edinburgh University

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

Members of Royal Society including Walter Scott.

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Sir William Hamilton

Title:

'On the size of the brain and the proportion of its parts, as affected by age, sex, or sexual mutilation.'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Science, Medicine

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

26793

Source:

Print

Author:

Walter Scott

Editor:

W. E. K. Anderson

Title:

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1972

Vol:

n/a

Page:

520

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Walter Scott, W. E. K. Anderson (ed.), The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, (Oxford, 1972), p. 520, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26793, accessed: 16 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None