But while Gall and Spurzheim bathed in the adulation and eventually fell out, by the way, serious scientists started to undermine the claims of phrenology.
She was a subscriber for all the " Health" periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils.
Siberian colonies became a laboratory of ideas about the " Russian race." Large collections of " exotic" skulls made available by Captain Cook's South Seas voyages were linked to early research in phrenology.