| Description Of Item | Contains 'Laws of Manifestation of Hereditariness'; and 'Predisposing Causes'. Also includes a printed article 'The Phenomena of the Age - The Kostromas - The Darwin Theory Realised' on the hairy-faced people of Kostroma, 1874; handwritten case note on 'Maphvon the daughter of Shive-Maong the Homo Hirsutus' which makes reference to John Crawford's book on the sacred hairy family of Burma, c1870; case note on Mary and James Meredith of Penalt, Monmouthshire and the inherited disabilities in their seven children, 1869; case note on Samuel Cooper in the Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor with a description of his hair, a carte de visite photograph and samples of his and his daughter's hair, 1875; and newspaper cuttings on the exhibition of one of the Kostroma people in London, 1874 and the long lived Cunnigham family. |