skull-measurer

English

skull-measurer (plural skull-measurers)

(historical) A phrenologist.
- 1926, V. Gordon Childe, chapter 1, in The Aryans, page 4:
  Language, albeit an abstraction, is yet a more subtle and pervasive criterion of individuality than the culture-group formed by comparing flints and potsherds or the "races" of the skull-measurer.
- 2021, Matthew W. Dougherty, chapter 5, in Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America‎^[1], page 136:
  Some classified them as irreducibly distinct from Europeans while others, such as the prolific skull-measurer Samuel George Morton, classified them as nearly "Caucasian," that is, White.