| Description Of Item | Two pages from the Medical Times and Gazette of a lecture by George Rolleston about comparing the brains of humans and animals delivered at The Royal Institution. Six anatomical illustrations of brains are included: the brain of a dog, the brain of a vervet monkey, the brain of a marmoset, the brain of a man, the brain of a European, and the brain of Sarah Baartman, known as the ‘Hottentot Venus’.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |