1897 PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL - Vol 104 - Number 2

Title: The Phrenological Journal. Vol. 104, Number 2.

Publisher: New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1897
Item is in ORIGINAL Condition, In Publisher's Blue Wrappers, Complete with Ads!

Notes & Condition: The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health; Incorporated with the English Phrenological Magazine. Vol. 104, Number 2. August, 1897. This issue features scientific observations of the Honorable William L. Strong, New York City's mayor, and other influencial contemporaries. Also discussing human differences, questions of health and culture.

8vo. 50 pages (numbered 51-100), plus table of contents and 14 pages dedicated to publisher's prospectus and contemporay ads. This is a complete issue comprising several scientific accounts of contemporary phrenological interest, with numerous photographic illustrations and sketch diagrams. Original condition in publisher's illustrated blue wrappers, titles to front and ads to verso. Small chips to wrappers, otherwise in very good original condition, internally bright and clean.

William Lafayette Strong (1827-1900) was the Mayor of New York from 1895 to 1897. He was the last mayor of New York before the Consolidation of the City of New York on January 1, 1898. A Republican, elected on a Fusion Party ticket by Republican and anti-Tammany Democrats, the reform-minded Strong established the Board of Education, created small parks, and is credited as the "father" of the Department of Correction. The Department of Public Charities and Correction had been abolished by Governor Levi Morton in 1894 to become separate departments. Strong appointed former U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt as Police Commissioner.