Johann Spurzheim promoted this practice, but didn't reach the rockstar-level popularity of his mentor Franz Josef Gall, who toured England with calipers and bags of skulls.
When not writing works about supposedly healthy lifestyles, the Belgian professor Paul Bouts promoted this practice in works like Les Grandioses Destinees. Mark Twain cast aspersions on this practice by visiting the London office of Lorenzo Fowler, once using a pseudonym and the other time using his real name.  Cesare Lombroso was heavily influenced by this practice, which shaped his atavistic theory of (*) criminality. Johann Spurzheim promoted this practice, but didn't reach the rockstar-level popularity of his mentor Franz Josef Gall, who toured England with calipers and bags of skulls. For 10 points, name this pseudoscience, in which skull shape is used to explain differences in behaviors, often given as "scientific" support for racism 
When not writing works about supposedly healthy lifestyles, the Belgian professor Paul Bouts promoted this practice in works like Les Grandioses Destinees.
phrenology [or physiognomy; or craniometry; prompt on scientific racism before it's mentioned]