Henry Maudsley brief period in public and charitable asylums. In the same year he was appointed co-editor of the "Journal of Mental Science", an influential position he retained for 15 years. Maudsley was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and delivered their Gulstonian Lectures in 1870 on "Body and Mind". The text of Maudsley's lectures was studied carefully by Charles Darwin in the preparation of his "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" (1872). Maudsley was appointed Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at University College London from 1869 to 1879. Maudsley married John Conolly's daughter, Ann Conolly, in
The Constitution of Man The Constitution of Man The Constitution of Man (or more completely, The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects) first published in 1828 is a work by George Combe, who is credited with popularizing the science of Phrenology. Combe argues that the human mind is best understood through Phrenology, and that the relative size of the various regions of the brain defined by Phrenology determines a persons behavior and potential interactions with the external world. In "The Constitution of Man" Combe uses Phrenology to create a practical science of morality, proposing that conforming to Natural Laws leads to