History and progress of phrenology : (read before the Western Phrenological Society, at Buffalo)
A set of 1839 phrenology plates from a Buffalo lecture by Roswell Willson Haskins, printed by Steele & Peck for the Western Phrenological Society and aimed at readers of early American medical and scientific popular science. The pictures are profile head diagrams with marked axes and engraved portraits of phrenologists, showing how skull shape was mapped to faculties; a designer could draw on their fine line hatching, guide-line construction, and labelled profile studies for scientific or vintage diagram work.
