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Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.

Three perspectives of a skull sectioned and numbered according to Gall's system of phrenology. Engraving, 1806.

Skull of a Caribbean person: side view. Lithograph by Engelmann after C.P. Mazer.

Phrenological chart with portraits of historical figures and illustrations of skulls exhibiting racial characteristics. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley, authored by C. Donovan, c. 1850.

The skull of the painter Raphael: frontal view. Lithograph by Engelmann after C.P. Mazer.

A female brain, sectioned vertically: side view. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Three perspectives of a skull sectioned and labelled according to an unorthodox system of phrenology. Pen drawing, 18--.

Mémoires d'anthropologie / de Paul Broca.

Diagram of the brain for a phrenological textbook. Pen drawing, c. 1902.

The phrenologist Bernard Hollander illustrating with his own head his system of cranial measurements. Photographs, c. 1902.

Die Skelette aus den Alamannengräbern des Zürichsee-, Limmat- und Glattales, (inklusive Greifensee- und Pfäffikerseegebietes) : eine anthropologische Untersuchung Inaugural-Disertation ... / von Carl Schneiter.

Indian skeletal material from the central coast of Peru / by Marshall T. Newman. with a synopsis of the archaeology / by Gordon R. Willey.

Notas antropológicas / por Francisco de las Barras.

Gehirn und Kultur / von Georg Buschan.

Observations on the relation of the principal fissures and convolution[s] of the cerebrum to the outer surface of the scalp / by Robert W. Reid.

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Die Skelette aus den Alamannengräbern des Zürichsee-, Limmat- und Glattales, (inklusive Greifensee- und Pfäffikerseegebietes) : eine anthropologische Untersuchung Inaugural-Disertation ... / von Carl Schneiter.

Indian skeletal material from the central coast of Peru / by Marshall T. Newman. with a synopsis of the archaeology / by Gordon R. Willey.

Notas antropológicas / por Francisco de las Barras.

Gehirn und Kultur / von Georg Buschan.

Observations on the relation of the principal fissures and convolution[s] of the cerebrum to the outer surface of the scalp / by Robert W. Reid.