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1814 T. Forster (title) Essay on the application of the Organology of the Brain to Education.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. App. 407 The organology of Gall and his followers.

1862 H. W. Beecher Eyes & Ears 28 Although a knowledge of Organology, and a certain facility of judging men's nature from the structure, is desirable, yet, if one did not know a single external phase of Phrenology, if he accepted its classification and division of faculties.

1880 H. C. Bastian Brain xxv. 518 The use of this convolutional grey matter being altogether differently estimated by the Phrenologist from what it is at present, their ‘System’ was devised, and their organology defined with no special reference thereto.

1995 Neurosurgery 37 790 In the last decade of the 18th century, Franz Joseph Gall of Vienna invented a combination of physiognomy and brain localization that he originally called ‘craniology’ (the science of the head) and later called ‘organology’ (the science of the organs of the brain).

1840 T. De Quincey Style in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 16/1 The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 377 Where he [sc. Macaulay] set his stamp has been on..style in its widest sense, not merely on the grammar and mechanism of writing, but on what De Quincey described as its organology; style, that is to say, in its relation to ideas and feelings.

1908 Mod. Lang. Notes 24 10/2 His [sc. De Quincey's] Organology and Mechanology, and his passage on Publication, are too brief and general to be called developed theses.

1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Organology, anatomy, craniology.

1856 W. L. Lindsay Pop. Hist. Brit. Lichens 108 A knowledge of the embryology or organology of the simplest plants is a necessary prelude or key to that of higher vegetables.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. Introd. p. i Organology or Physiological Botany; this treats of plants, and their organs, in a state of life or action.

1872 H. C. Carey Man. Social Sci. 26 The main branch on the vital side of the tree, rising a little above Physics, must necessarily be Organology, branching first into the science of vegetable beings.

1990 Kitasato Arch. Exper. Med. 63 43 Establishment of new concepts of organology as well as profound thinking over the shape and the structure is an urgent task for remodelling of anatomy into a more integrated science.

1941 N. Bessaraboff Anc. European Mus. Instruments p. xxvi The creative, artistic, and scientific aspect of music might be entitled musicology. The scientific and engineering aspect of musical instruments might be entitled organology.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 July 428/4 More specialized aspects of ‘organology’ (to use the term proper to the study of old instruments) formed the topics of the fifteen papers read by members of the Galpin Society.

1977 Early Music 5 405/2 Only one thing is lacking to help the student of organology: a photograph of each instrument.

1998 W. Kolneder Amadeus Bk. Violin 292 His remarks deal with details of organology and music history.