A Repository of Science, Literature, and General Intelligence. Devoted to phrenology, physiology, psychology, education, mechanism, agriculture, and to all those progressive measures which are calculated to reform, elevate, and improve mankind. One of the publishers, Orson Squire Fowler (1809 – 1887), was an American phrenologist and lecturer. The other half of the publishing team, Samuel R. Wells, married into the Fowler family and was another advocate of phrenology. But there is more to these papers then pseudoscience; there is also news about the American Civil War, a cure for stammering, how to teach natural philosophy, self-reliance, the effects of tea and coffee on children, religious education, poetry, etc.
