Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This ledger houses the notes, essays, research, and observations of Dr. Barnabas Wood, a dental surgeon who lived in Nashville before the Civil War. His interests included (among other things) physiognomy, phrenology, slavery, spirituality, morality, botany, and zoology. Dr. Wood inserted many notes and illustrations, including a broadside that advertises his new dental practice in Nashville. Other insertions show sketches of facial types, measurements of his friends, an allocation of his...