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TitleObservations on the phrenological development of Burke, Hare and other atrocious murderers.
Date1829
Description Of ItemReport containing information on phrenology as well as considerations of the phrenology of William Burke and William Hare and comparisons to others.

The report is 75 pages.

Title page states that it was ‘Read before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, by Thomas Stone Esq, president of the Royal Medical Society.’

‘Edinburgh: Published by Robert Buchanan, 26, George Street; William Hunter, 23, Hanover Street; John Stevenson, 87, Prince’s Street; T. and G. Underwood, London; Robertson and Atkinson, Glasgow; Alex. Brown & Co. Aberdeen; and J. Cuming, Dublin.’

End page states that it was ‘printed by Ballantyne and Company, Edinburgh’.
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