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^{page 605 note ∗} “Minutes of Proceedings Relative to the Establishment of a General Lunatic Asylum near the city of Gloucester, including a Digest of a Scheme for such an Institution addressed to a General Meeting of Subscribers held on the 14th of July 1794. By Sir G. O. Paul.” Gloucester, 1796.Google Scholar

^{page 606 note ∗} The Shire Hall was in fact completed first, in 1820.Google Scholar

^{page 607 note ∗} Another instance of Hitch's enterprising character has been discovered by Mr. Grant. In 1836 he was one of two passengers in a balloon ascent organized by a Mr. Graham of Gloucester “in an attempt to gratify public curiosity”. The voyagers “spiritedly waved flags and hands until distance rendered them imperceptible”. They eventually came down on Bredon Hill, where they were thrown out and “did somersaults into a turnip field, but without any harm”.Google Scholar

^{page 609 note ∗} Hartland, John, described also in Sketches in Bedlam, page 135.Google Scholar

^{page 614 note ∗} J. Merit. Sci., October, 1954, 100, 831, 834.Google Scholar

^{page 625 note ∗} Crommelinck says that he tried in vain to persuade members to adopt the term “Phrenopathic Institution”.Google Scholar

^{page 626 note ∗} An excellent compromise resolution. Among the members present, T. O. Prichard, of Northampton, was an absolute non-restrainer, while Corsellis, of Wakefield, had been an active participant in the Lancet correspondence on the “occasional restraint” side.Google Scholar

^{page 626 note †} Crommelinck adds: “In regard to the last resolution, there was much discussion on the tardiness of Poor-Law Guardians in sending their insane poor to the institutions provided for them, and much indignation was expressed by all members.” The Guardians were using the wording of the Poor-Law Act as a pretext for retaining in the workhouses patients who were not “dangerous”.Google Scholar

^{page 627 note ∗} Often referred to colloquially as the “Psychological Journal”.Google Scholar

^{page 630 note ∗} Dr. Hitchman, speaking at the Association's Annual Dinner in Derby in 1855 (the first held), said: “Our Association is of tender years; it dates its origin from the social intercourse of a few friends under the hospitable roof of Dr. Hitch—from an assembly of gentlemen having kindred pursuits, like aims, like anxieties and like hopes. It was in the beginning a social festival at which laborious men forgot for a while their anxious daily task and luxuriated in the sympathy of their brethren … some of the members felt that the Association should enlarge its aims and become the representative and exponent of psychological science.”Google Scholar

There is a suggestion here that the Association had remained a mere “social festival” after it had been formally constituted, not merely that it had originated from informal gatherings. The records, as has been shown above, give no support to this.Google Scholar