Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the mid-Victorian mind

乔治·库姆（1788-1858）是一位居住在爱丁堡的颅相学家，在世纪中期产生了巨大的学术影响。Price Albert的评论：理查德·科布登的导师对乔治艾略特的形成性影响：库姆为一代政治和教育改革者提供了智力上的灵感。库姆的名字由于他与名誉扫地的伪科学颅相学的联系而变得默默无闻，这将是自1879年以来第一次对他的生活和工作进行全面研究。其中探讨的主题是颅相学和政治改革之间的联系，库姆的作用，作为一个公共讲师，并详细考虑他的宪法的人（1828年）。

George Combe (1788-1858) was an Edinburgh-based phrenologist who came to wield a tremendous intellectual influence in the mid nineteenth century. An advisor to Price Albert: the mentor of Richard Cobden: a formative influence on George Eliot: Combe provided intellectual inspiration to a generation of political and educational reformers. Combe's name fell into obscurity due to his connection with the discredited pseudo-science of phrenology, and this will be the first full-length study of his life and work since 1879. Among the subjects explored are the connections between phrenology and political reform, Combe's role as a public lecturer, and a detailed consideration of his Constitution of Man (1828).