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His forehead is quite Byronic in its craniological developments.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

I say ignorance, for the aversion to the doctrines of Gall was due far more to the ignorance of the profession and their entire neglect of the craniological method than to any other causes.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

To throw more than a cursory glance at them Would lead me into interminable disquisitions of a mythological, anthropological, craniological, and antediluvian nature for which one would not find universal approval among his readers.

From Across China on Foot by Dingle, Edwin John

I know positively that I mashed it into a pulp, for I tried afterwards to measure it, and found that for craniological purposes it was utterly valueless.

From The Aztec Treasure-House by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)

Thus all craniological observations are liable to inaccuracy, even as regards development, and much more in regard to functional power.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)