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Australia. Of 148 convicts, De Ville provided notes on around one-third, to the ship's surgeon George Thomson. Wardrop's intention was to discredit De Ville's evaluations: in the event, there was a plot among the convicts to take over the ship, and the effect, according to Thomson's notes, was to
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327:'Account of a number of cases in which a change had been produced on the form of the head by education and moral training-Phrenological Association, Glasgow', Phrenological Journal, 14 (1841) pp. 32–8.
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De Ville's casts were distributed throughout the world; and some are extant in the collection of the
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in 1825, ordered 90 phrenological busts from De Ville to show in his lectures. In a room adjacent to his shop, De Ville gave public shows of part of his collection of casts and skulls.
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De Ville married in 1797 Jane Smith, and they had five children, including sons
William and George, daughters Emily and Jane, who married William Matthews, and a further daughter.
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saw the collection in 1832 and found it impressive; on the same occasion De Ville did a phrenological reading of James
Jackson Jr., which Warren did not find convincing.
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was in his audience. In 1840 he became a member of the
Phrenological Association. He resigned in 1842 on the schism among British phrenologists. It occurred when
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area. In the 1810s he was in business as a lampmaker and plaster caster, dealing also in lighthouse fittings. From 1814, he had business premises at 367
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George Murray Paterson, who began to teach phrenology in the
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