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| Title | Selections from the Phrenological Journal: Comprising Forty Articles in the First Five Volumes |
| Editor | Robert Cox |
| Contributor | George Combe |
| Publisher | Maclachlan & Steward, and John Anderson Jun., 1836 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Dec 2005 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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