{{Short description|British physician, phrenologist, mesmerist, lecturer, author, and inventor}} {{for-multi|the Unitarian clergyman|Robert Collyer (clergyman)|the New Thought author|Robert Collier (author)}} {{Infobox person | name = Robert Hanham Collyer | image = Robert Hanham Collyer.png | alt = Robert Hanham Collyer | caption = Robert Hanham Collyer | birth_name = | birth_date = 1814 | birth_place = [[St Helier]], [[Jersey]] | death_date = {{circa|1891}} | death_place = [[New Orleans]], US | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Physician, phrenologist, mesmerist, lecturer, author, inventor | years_active = 19th-century | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Robert Hanham Collyer''' (1814 – {{circa|1891}}) was a British [[physician]], [[Phrenology|phrenologist]], [[Mesmerism|mesmerist]], lecturer, author, and inventor mostly active on the east coast of America and Canada during the 19th-century.
Collyer was known for his showmanship and became a popular traveling lecturer. In 1839, he discovered, conceived, and promoted the practice of "[[phreno-magnetism]]", but relinquished his claims as mistaken by mid-1843.
He was also involved in a number of scandals and rivalries, including a claim that he originated inhalation [[anesthesia]] for surgery before [[William T. G. Morton]], who is generally credited with the discovery.
==Early life== Robert Hanham Collyer was born in [[St Helier]], [[Jersey]] to Ann Du Jardin (1796-1879), and Robert Mitchell Collyer (1787-1859),{{sfn|Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore}} although details of his early life are hazy.{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=23}}{{sfn|Osborn|1922a|page=72}}{{sfn|Osborn|1922b|page=128}}
==Phrenology== He studied [[phrenology]] under [[Johann Gaspar Spurzheim]] in Paris;{{sfn|Anon|1839}} and, then, attended classes at [[London University]], where he studied medicine with [[John Elliotson]] {{em-dash}} the founder and first President of the London Phrenological Society, and an early advocate of mesmerism in England (and, later, joint editor of ''[[The Zoist|The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology & Mesmerism, and Their Applications to Human Welfare]]'') {{em-dash}} for at least two years, but did not go on to graduate.{{sfn|Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore}}{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=23}}{{sfn|Crabtree|1994|p=224}}
In March 1836, aged 22, he and his parents and siblings migrated to America, where he traveled along the east coast of the United States and Canada giving lectures on phrenology.{{sfn|Anon|1839}}{{sfn|Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore}}{{sfn|Crabtree|1994|p=224}}{{sfn|Moore|2017|pp=204–205}} In-between lecturing he received the standard "quickie" degree from [[Berkshire Medical College]].{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=26}}{{sfn|Gibbons|1964}} After receiving his degree, and having been mesmerized by Dr T. Cleaveland in October 1839,<ref>Collyer, ''Exalted States'' (1873), p.48.</ref> Collyer became more and more interested in mesmerism,{{sfn|Fuller|1982|p=26-29, 50}} and added mesmeric demonstrations to his lecture circuit.{{sfn|Crabtree|1994|p=224}}{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=27}}{{sfn|Nygren|1970|pp=102–104}} [[File:Phreno-Mesmerism.tiff|thumb|upright|A Phreno-Magnetist<br>"Exciting the Organ of Veneration" ({{circa}} 1887){{sfn|Younger|1887|p=69}}]]
==Phreno-magnetism== He also began serving as editor of ''Mesmeric Magazine'';{{sfn|Crabtree|1994|p=224}}{{sfn|Collyer|1842}}<ref>See, for instance, [http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/mesmeric_magazine/mesmeric_magazine_v1_n1_jul_1842.pdf ''Mesmeric Magazine'', Vol.1, No.1, (July 1842).]</ref> and, in 1839,{{sfn|Elliotson|1843|p=236}} he discovered, and began to develop what he called "[[phreno-magnetism]]";<ref>The term is a [[portmanteau]] of '''''[[phrenology]]''''' and '''''[[animal magnetism]]'''''.</ref> a practice which aimed to activate specific "[[Phrenology#Specific phrenological modules|phrenological organs]]" through mesmeric influence, or [[animal magnetism]].{{efn|As Lindsay B. Yeates observes, "The principal consequence of ... [Collyer's] apparent blending of the disparate practices ... of [[Animal magnetism|''mesmerism'']] and ''[[phrenology]]'' ... was that, to supporters of both sides, the theoretical correctness of each ‘science’ was now confirmed by the other; [and,] further, in ''phreno-mesmerism'', many saw a long overdue return to the metaphysical domain from which [[Franz Joseph Gall|Gall's]] materialist and mechanistic system of [[Franz Joseph Gall#Contributions to phrenology|''organology'']] seemed to have diverted all and sundry."{{sfn|Yeates|2013|p=110}}}}{{sfn|Yeates|2018|p=88}}{{sfn|Elliotson|1843|p=236-239}}{{sfn|Elliotson|1855|p=61-68}}
===Other claimants=== Prior to Collyer's later retraction of the claimed "discovery" in 1842,{{sfn|Elliotson|1843|p=237}}<ref>Footnote at Collyer, 1843, p.9.</ref> two others claimed to have independently confirmed the veracity of Collyer's discovery: architect Henry George Atkinson (1812-c.1890), a Fellow of the [[Geological Society of London|Geological Society]] at London, in November 1841; and chemist Charles Blandford Mansfield (1819-1849) at Cambridge in December 1841.<ref>See: Atkinson (1843, passim: especially the editorial footnote at page 294:<br>"The discovery of mesmero-phrenology was made by Dr. Collier in America, by Mr. Atkinson in London, in Nov. 1841, and by Mr. Mansfield at Cambridge, in Dec. 1841, and not by his friend, Mr. Gardener, in Hampshire, who merely observed, that the organ of tune was pained when he played some notes of music out of harmony — an effect which has nothing to do with mesmero-phrenology, and a matter of common experience in our ordinary condition. ''Dr. Collier has since denied the existence of what he professed to have discovered''." (emphasis added to original)</ref>{{sfn|Morrison|1849}}
One of Collyer's rivals, [[La Roy Sunderland]], also claimed to have independently discovered the same phenomena in 1841.{{sfn|Sunderland|1842|p=7}} However, like Collyer, he later relinquished his claims.{{sfn|Sunderland|1847|p=73}}
===Clashes with rivals=== He also frequently clashed with rival phrenological-mesmerists [[La Roy Sunderland]]{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|pp=33, 35–36}}{{sfn|Crabtree|1994|pp=224–225}} and [[Joseph Rodes Buchanan]].{{sfn|Crabtree|1994|pp=226–227}}
==Mesmerism== Eventually Collyer mostly abandoned phrenology {{em-dash}} especially, his own ideas of phreno-magnetism {{em-dash}} and focused exclusively on mesmerism by mid-1843.{{sfn|Crabtree|1994|p=224}}{{sfn|Yeates|2018|p=88}}{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|pp=32–34}}
Other mesmerists such as K. Dickerson,{{sfn|Dickerson|1843}} and [[Phineas Parkhurst Quimby]], who got their start after seeing a lecture by Collyer, were also inspired by him.{{sfn|Taves|1999|p=130}}{{sfn|Melton|2009|page=870}} Many thought of him as "the Champion of Mesmerism in America",{{sfn|Anon|1843|p=2}} a view which he encouraged.{{sfn|Taves|1999|p=130}} Public opinion of Collyer varied so widely and was so antithetical that one historian<ref>Namely, US historian, John Dunn Davies (1918–1994), at Davies (1955), pp.132-133.</ref> believed there were ''two'' Robert H. Collyers {{em-dash}} "the one a respected visiting scientist from England, the other an impostor following his trail and trading on his reputation"{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=36}} {{em-dash}} lecturing on mesmerism, though this is unlikely.{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=36}}
{{external media | float = right | width = 300px | image1 = [https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_S_NPG.91.126.65.B "''Robert H. Collyer MD putting Mons. de Bonneville in the Mesmeric of Magnetic State, Boston, 17th. May 1842''"], a [[Silhouette|silhouette portrait]] of Collyer and Louis C.H. de Bonneville, by [[Auguste Edouart]] in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. <ref>In a footnote, Irving T. Richards (1934, p.355) states that,<br>"Louis C. H. de Bonneville, [was an] instructor in French at [[Harvard University|Harvard]], 1841-1842. He was befriended by both [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|[Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow]] and [[John Neal |[John] Neal]], and was said to have resigned his position [at Harvard] to become "first Professor of Magnetism and then Professor of Mormonism, which he says is the only true religion". See ''Portland Advertiser'', May 26, 1842.".</ref> |image2=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ReoNAAAAQAAJ&dq=%20%22Collyer%20Robert%20Hanham%22&pg=PA92 Entry for Robert Hanham Collyer in the U.K. ''Medical Register'' of 1869 (p.92).] |image3=[https://books.google.com/books?id=j-cNAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22collyer%20robert%20hanham%22&pg=PA147 Entry for Robert Hanham Collyer in the U.K. ''Medical Register'' of 1877 (p.147).]}}
==Notoriety== In February 1843, the phrenologist [[Orson Squire Fowler]], noting that Collyer, the "notorious and in every way immoral Phrenologist, and magnetizer" had just returned to the US "from Canada, where his gross and flagrant crimes [had driven] him last summer", warned phrenologists and magnetizers "to give him no countenance, because he is utterly destitute of moral principle".{{sfn|Fowler|1843a|pp=94–95}} Collyer countered with a [[libel]] suit;{{sfn|Fowler|1843b|pp=331–332}}{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=35}} which prompted Fowler to appeal for the assistance of the phrenologist "lovers of morality and virtue" in providing supportive evidence of Collyer's "immorality and vice".{{sfn|Fowler|1843b|p=331}}<ref>Noting that, in such legal actions, provided their testimony was truthful, witnesses could not be prosecuted for their statements, Fowler (once again, attacking Collyer) appealed to those friends of phrenology, and the readers of his journal, interested "in exposing the guilty to eternal ignominy and disgrace, and in preventing the public from being imposed upon any farther" for their assistance and support:<br>"And now, friends, and readers of the Journal, we want your aid. Those of you who know of Collyer’s having committed immoralities or crimes, great or small, or who know any who do know of his having done dirty deeds, of his having committed seduction, or adultery, or having even gone off without paying his debts, or of his having violated either morality or law, will have the goodness to put their affidavit, or that of their friends, in a legal form, and forward it to me at 181 Nassau Street ..."(Fowler, 1843b, p.331)</ref>
Collyer was known for his showmanship and self-promotion.{{sfn|Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore}}{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=26}}{{sfn|Taves|1999|p=130}} For instance, one of his tours of the [[southern United States]] involved a cast of nearly naked artists in painted body stockings.{{sfn|Moore|2017|p=205}}{{sfn|Sydney|1848}}{{sfn|Anon|1848}}{{sfn|Monod|2016|pp=76–107, 261–266}}
He was also known for a very public scandal in which his wife was found in bed with another man, in [[Louisville, Kentucky]], on September 25, 1838: the eminent English novelist [[Frederick Marryat|Captain Marryat]], author of ''[[The Children of the New Forest]]'', and ''[[Mr Midshipman Easy]]''.{{sfn|Lystra|1992|p=56}}<ref>For the complete (September 25, 1838) text of the newspaper report of the event in the ''Louisville Reporter'', and for the complete text of Collyer’s (September 27, 1838) letter exonerating Marryat, see Bader (1936) pp.123-126.</ref>
Collyer married another woman without divorcing his first wife, making him guilty of [[bigamy]].{{sfn|Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore}}{{sfn|Moore|2017|p=205}}
==Edgar Allan Poe== Collyer knew [[Edgar Allan Poe]],{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=36}} and was one of those who believed Poe's short story "[[The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar]]" to be factual. On December 16, 1845, Collyer wrote to Poe saying he had accomplished similar feats as the fictional mesmerist in the story.{{sfn|Collyer|1845|p=390}}{{sfn|Anon|1992|page=6}}{{sfn|Barnes|2009|page=197}} Collyer had more likely revived his own patient, a drunken sailor, by means of a cold bath and prolonged massage.{{sfn|Silverman|1992|page=295}}{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|pp=38-39}}
==Inventor== Collyer was also a prolific inventor, with a [[#Selected patents|list of patents]] which ranged from a method for crushing [[quartz]], ways to manufacture paper products, and a new covering for electric [[telegraph]] cables.{{sfn|Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore}}{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=41}} He also said he invented an improved [[breech loading]] [[cannon]],<ref>Collyer, ''Mysteries of the Vital Element'', 1871, p. 28.</ref> but no patent information is available.<ref>See list of patents, below.</ref>
===Ether=== [[File:Early history of the anaesthetic discovery, by Collyer, 1877 Wellcome L0014345.jpg|thumb|Collyer's book ''Early History of the Anaesthetic Discovery'' (1877) where he again credited himself with the discovery of anesthesia]] Collyer claimed to have invented [[ether]] for [[anesthesia]] before [[William T. G. Morton]], who is generally credited with the discovery, but Collyer never produced evidence of his claims.{{sfn|Sykes|1960|pp=45–60}} Collyer was not the only claimant to the invention, which was very much in demand to the point that Congress considered a $100,000 reward for a method of painless surgery.{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|pp=22–23}}
Despite most in the medical profession dismissing his involvement, ''[[The Lancet]]'' gave credit to Collyer for the invention in 1868 and 1870, even though they too had dismissed the idea in 1847.{{sfn|Sykes|1960|pp=46–47}} However, it is likely that the author of at least the 1868 article giving Collyer credit was Collyer himself writing under a [[pen name]].{{sfn|Sykes|1960|p=46}}
==Later years== Eventually Collyer turned to more conventional medicine, and [[Taylor Stoehr]] writes that "the anesthesia controversy of 1847 was the last major pseudo-scientific effort of his career" as far as medicine was concerned, although he "never turned his back on the pseudo-science of the psyche".{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=41}}
He practiced medicine for some time in Jersey, joined the [[California Gold Rush]], and was in charge of a cholera hospital in Mexico before returning to England to focus on his more profitable inventions.{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=41}}
Collyer occasionally wrote for publications such as ''The Spiritualist Magazine'', and publicly defended the [[Mediumship|medium]] [[Henry Slade (medium)|Henry Slade]] who had been convicted of fraud.{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|pp=41–42}}<ref>Collyer, 1876</ref>
===The Foxhall Jaw=== He acquired a jawbone known as the "Foxhall Jaw" in 1863,<ref>Collyer, 1867; Osborn, 1922a, 1922b.</ref>{{sfn|Whitnall|1944}} and promoted it as "the oldest relic of the human animal now in existence"; but archeologists disputed the claim.{{sfn|O'Connor|2021|page=56}}
==Death== Collyer seems to have died sometime around 1891 in New Orleans,{{sfn|Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore}} although like his early life, the end of his life is hazy.{{sfn|Stoehr|1987|p=23}}
==Selected writings== {{refbegin|30em|indent=yes}} * '''1835''': ''A Manual of Phrenology, or the Physiology of the Human Brain'', New York: J. Booth & Son. * '''1838''': [https://ia600303.us.archive.org/22/items/2546056R.nlm.nih.gov/2546056R.pdf ''A Manual of Phrenology, or the Physiology of the Human Brain: Embracing a Full Description of the Phrenological Organs, their Exact Location, and the Peculiarities of Character produced by their various Degrees of Development and Combination (Fourth Edition)''], Cincinnati: N.G Burgess & Co. * '''1838''': ''Lights and Shadows of American Life'', Boston: Brainard & Co. * '''1843''': [https://ia802901.us.archive.org/26/items/60220890R.nlm.nih.gov/60220890R.pdf ''Psychography, or, The Embodiment of Thought; with an Analysis of Phrenomagnetism, "Neurology," and Mental Hallucination, including Rules to Govern and Produce the Magnetic State''], Philadelphia: Zieber & Co. * '''1844''': ''Lights and Shadows of American Life'', New York: Burgess & Stringer. * '''1847''': "[https://archive.org/details/sim_the-lancet_january-2-june-26-1847_1_1218-1243/page/50/mode/2up?view=theater Inhalation of Narcotic Vapour]", ''The Lancet'', Vol.49, No.1219, (9 January 1847), pp.50-51. * '''1855''': "[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12969881 The Lost Gold Dust (Letter to the Editor)]", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', (Tuesday, May 29, 1855), p.5. * '''1862''': "[http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/spiritual_magazine_uk/spiritual_magazine_s1_v3_n2_feb_1862.pdf Phrenography]", ''The Spiritual Magazine'', Vol.3, No.2, (February 1862), pp.49-57. * '''1867''': "[https://archive.org/details/jstor-3025128/page/n1/mode/2up The Fossil Human Jaw from Suffolk]", ''The Anthropological Review'', Vol.5, No.17, (April 1867), pp. 221-229. * '''1868''': [https://www.bonhams.com/auction/26074/lot/150/collyer-robert-hanham-1814-1891-history-of-the-anaesthetic-discovery-by-the-discoverer-bruges-1868 ''History of the Anaesthetic Discovery by the Discoverer, Robert Hanham Collyer, Doctor of Medicine''], Bruges: Edward Gailliard & Co. * '''1871''': [https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/pdf/b21047066 ''Mysteries of the Vital Element: In Connexion with Dreams, Somnambulism, Trance, Vital Photography, Faith and Will, Anæsthesia, Nervous Congestion and Creative Function: Modern Spiritualism Explained (Second Edition)''], London: Henry Renshaw. * '''1871''': [https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/pdf/b21479458 ''Review of the "Lancet's" Article on the History of Anaesthetic Discovery: by the original discoverer, Robert H. Collyer, M.D.''], London: Plackett & Co. * '''1871''': [https://rosetta.slv.vic.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_func=stream&dps_pid=FL6618263 ''Reply to Professor Allen Thomson's address as President of the Biological Section at the British Association held in Edinburgh, August, 1871''], London : Robert H. Collyer. * '''1873''': [https://ia800503.us.archive.org/9/items/b21302741/b21302741.pdf ''Exalted States of the Nervous System: In Explanation of the Mysteries of Modern Spiritualism, Dreams, Trance, Somnambulism, Vital Photography, Faith, Will, Origin of Life, Anæsthesia, and Nervous Congestion (Third Edition)''], London: Henry Renshaw. * '''1876''': [https://books.google.com/books?id=7yer-JzFHYcC&q=The+Slade+Prosecution ''Automatic Writing: The Slade Prosecution: Vindication of the Truth''], London: H. Vickers. * '''1876''': "[https://digital.nls.uk/the-spiritualist/archive/135950019#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&xywh=-2123%2C-293%2C7903%2C5858 Test ''Seances'' with Dr. Slade]", ''The Spiritualist, and Journal of Psychological Science'', Vol.9, No.224, (8 December 1876), p.222. * '''1877''': [https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/pdf/b22431135 ''Early History of the Anæsthetic Discovery; Painless Surgical Operations''], London: H. Vickers. {{refend}}
==Selected patents== {{refbegin|30em|indent=yes}} * '''1854''': US Patent, No.10,388 (3 January 1854): [https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/38/27/71/1e3837ebc24d43/US10388.pdf ''Improvement in Quartz-Pulverizers''.] * '''1854''': English Patent, No.919 (21 April 1854): [https://books.google.com/books?id=8-99fBEFa9cC&dq=%22919%22&pg=PA23-IA64 ''Improved Machinery for Crushing or Triturating Hard Substances''.] * '''1854''': US Patent, No.11,034 (6 June 1854): [https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/53/d1/36/d2580e0ffa4d08/US11034.pdf ''Gold-Amalgamator''.] * '''1856''': English Patent, No.2442 (18 October 1856): [https://books.google.com/books?id=Qm-8oLySba0C&dq=2442&pg=PT28 ''Improved Method of Manufacturing Paper''.] * '''1857''': English Patent, No.819 (24 March 1857): [https://books.google.com/books?id=s14OzQ0_B0QC&pg=PT32 ''Improved Machine for Cleaning and Purifying Wheat and other Grain''.] * '''1857''': English Patent, No.1578 (5 June March 1857): [https://books.google.com/books?id=xNvOg_Fmo0cC&dq=%221578%22&pg=PA29-IA132 ''An Improved Mode of preparing the Residue of Beetroot, Mangel Wurtzel, and other Species of the Genus Betâ left in Sugar-Making and Distillation, to be used as Material in Making Paper, Paper Maché, Millboard, and other similar Manufactures''.] * '''1858''': English Patent, No.1820 (10 August 1858): [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6SfbLxm1QcC&pg=PA8-IA107 ''An Improved Coating Composition to Protect Vessels from Marine, Animal, and Vegetable Substances''.] * '''1859''': English Patent, No.550 (2 March 1859): [https://books.google.com/books?id=vBAuw3_ruCAC&dq=%22550%22&pg=PA9-IA128 ''A Process of Preparing Material for the Manufacture of Paper, and a Machine employed therein, which Machine is applicable for Crushing, Grinding, Bruising, and Reducing various Substances''.] * '''1859''': English Patent, No.2771 (7 December 1859): [https://books.google.com/books?id=4Yl2D0jtW0wC&dq=%222771%22&pg=RA16-PA1 ''A Chemical Ink Pencil or Composition applicable as an Instrument or Means for Writing, Drawing, and Marking''.] * '''1860''': English Patent, No.564 (29 February 1860): [https://books.google.com/books?id=XuwW6ipvkXYC&dq=%22564%22&pg=RA34-PA1 ''Improvements in the Manufacture of Pulp, and in Preparing Materials for the Purpose, and in Apparatuses Employed Therein, Part of the Invention being also Applicable to Preparing Materials for Fibrous and Textile Manufacturing Purposes''.] * '''1860''': English Patent, No.804 (28 March 1860): [https://books.google.com/books?id=CffGa2mi5HwC&dq=804&pg=RA45-PA1 ''Improvements in the Manufacture of Pulp for Paper, Paper Maché, and other similar Uses, and in Apparatus Employed Therein, Part of the Invention being also Applicable to other Operations in which Materials have to be subjected to the Action of Liquids, Steam, and other Fluids''.] * '''1860''': English Patent, No.1275 (23 May 1860): [https://books.google.com/books?id=plR1pZJTuxcC&dq=%221275%22&pg=RA2-PA1 ''Improvements in the Manufacture of Tubes and Other Vessels and Other Articles, and in the Machinery and Apparatus Connected Therewith''.] * '''1860''': English Patent, No.1329 (29 May 1860): [https://books.google.com/books?id=plR1pZJTuxcC&dq=%221329%22&pg=RA32-PA1 ''Improvements in Telegraph Cables, also Applicable to other similar Purposes''.] * '''1863''': English Patent, No.1 (1 January 1863): [https://books.google.com/books?id=3Hdam_iaDgIC&dq=%221.%22&pg=PA1 ''Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Preparing Materials for the Manufacture of Paper and Similar Purposes, Part of the Invention being also applicable to other Operations in which Materials are subjected to the Action of Hot Agents''.] * '''1864''': English Patent, No.627 (12 March 1864): [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0Sfhdcstb4C&dq=%20%22627%22&pg=PT38 ''An Improved Apparatus and Process for the Conversion of Substances into Material for the Manufacture of Paper and Textile Purposes''.] * '''1889''': US Patent, No.397,536 (12 February 1889): [https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ff/77/df/9a2dc7f3273bad/US397536.pdf ''Machine for Decorticating Fibrous Plants''.] * '''1889''': US Patent, No.402,232 (30 April 1889): [https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/d8/2d/69/619edeb67eb56c/US402232.pdf ''Machine for Delinting Cotton-Seed''.] * '''1889''': US Patent, No.408,085 (30 July 1889): [https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/9c/84/4a/44b4f039b0c1a7/US408085.pdf ''Cotton-Seed Cleaner''.] {{refend}}
==Footnotes== {{notelist}}
==References== {{reflist}}
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==Further reading== {{div col}} {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last1=Albanese |first1=Catherine L. |title=A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion |date=2007 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=978-0-300-11089-0}} * {{cite book |last1=Branson |first1=Susan |title=Scientific Americans: Invention, Technology, and National Identity |date=2021 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=9781501760914 |pages=124–158 |chapter=Internal Improvements: Phrenology as a Tool for Reform}} * {{cite book |last1=Gable |first1=Harvey L. |title=Liquid Fire: Transcendental Mysticism in the Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne |date=1998 |publisher=Lang |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8204-3830-6}} * {{cite book |last1=Heartman |first1=Charles F. |last2=Canny |first2=James R. |title=A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe |date=1943 |publisher=The Book Farm |location=Hattiesburg, MS}} * {{cite book |last1=Ljungquist |first1=Kent. P. |editor1-last=Mott |editor1-first=Wesley T. |title=Emersonian Circles: Essays in Honor of Joel Myerson |date=1997 |publisher=University of Rochester Press |location=Rochester |isbn=9781878822727 |pages=181–206 |chapter=‘Valdemar’ and the ‘Frogpondians’: The Aftermath of Poe's Boston Lyceum Appearance}} * {{cite book |last1=McNeil |first1=Keith |title=A Story Untold: A History of the Quimby-Eddy Debate |date=2020 |publisher=Hawthorne Publishing |location=Carmel, IN |isbn=978-0-5787-1362-5}} * {{cite journal |last1=Mitham |first1=Peter J. |title=For 'the Honor and Dignity of the Profession': Organized Medicine in Colonial New Brunswick, 1793–1860 |journal=Canadian Bulletin of Medical History |date=1996 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=83–108 |doi=10.3138/cbmh.13.1.83 |jstor=45454472 |pmid=11613341 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45454472 |issn=0823-2105}} * {{cite journal |last1=Peyrouton |first1=N. C. |title=Boz and the American Phreno-Mesmerists |journal=Dickens Studies |date=1967 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=38–50 |jstor=44390616 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44390616 |issn=0419-1099}} * {{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=Dwight |last2=Jackson |first2=David K. |title=The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 |publisher=G. K. Hall & Sons |date=1987 |location=Boston |isbn=978-0-8161-8734-8}} {{refend}} {{end div col}}
==External links== * [http://www.geoffsgenealogy.co.uk/collyer/robert-hanham-collyer-chronology "Robert Hanham Collyer Chronology", ''geoffsgenealogy.co.uk''.] * [https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/r/y/Dulcy-T-Bryan/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0111.html Bryan, Dulcy Thomas, "Information about Robert Hanham Collyer", ''genealogy.com''.] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Collyer, Robert Hanham}}
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