1825 Wakefield Phrenological Society, established by William Ellis. Francis Jeffrey's rebuttal of phrenology in the Edinburgh Review . 1826-27 Sir William Hamilton engages in controversy with Combe and Spurzheim. 1827-28 schism in the Edinburgh Phrenological Society between evangelicals and Combeans over Combe's doctrine of the natural laws. 1828 George Combe publishes Constitution of Man .
Gall dies near Paris.
Manchester Phrenological Society, established. 1831 Phrenological Society of Paris, established. Spurzheim dies in Boston Massachusetts while on lecture tour. Aberdeen Phrenological Society, established. Birmingham Phrenological Society, established 1839 Phrenological Association meets in Birmingham.