| Description Of Item | Refers to an exhibition of interest to ethnologists at the Lyric Hall, Great Portland Street of a man and his child, from ‘the forest of Nostroma’, Russia. [Kostroma?] ‘The father’s face is – with the exception of the eyes – completely, we might almost say densely, covered with fine, soft, brown hair of from about four to five inches in length.’ Also refers to teeth.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |