In the early 20th century however, phrenology benefited of a new interest, particularly in the viewpoint
of evolutionism on one hand and of criminology and anthropology (as studied by Cesare Lombroso) on the other hand. The most
important British phrenologist of this century was the famous London psychiatrist Bernard Hollander (1864-1934). His main
works, The Mental Function of the Brain (1901) and Scientific Phrenology (1902) are an appraisal of the teachings of Gall.
Hollander also introduced a quantitative approach to the phrenological diagnosis, defining a methodology for measuring the
skull and comparing the measurements with statistical averages
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