A Philadelphia artist and naturalist named Richard Kern, who was there when Narbona died, later regretted that he had failed to secure the Navajo leader's skull for his friend Dr. Samuel Morton, the famous phrenologist. |
If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square. |
A phrenologist would say that it was the characteristic of every woman's head. |
A phrenologist would have delighted in the study of that remarkable head. |
The doctor, in addition to being everything that the New Englander is, is a phrenologist besides. |
Still another reason for Wallace's obscurity has something to do with that phrenologist. |