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RefNoPT/74/3/24
LevelItem
TitleDrawing, 'Simia troglodytes' by H [Heinrich] Tiedemann
Date1835
DescriptionPlate 35, figure 4 showing an anatomical study of the base of the brain of a chimpanzee [Simia troglodytes]. Inscribed with title, publication, and plate details. An ink inscription bottom left reads 'London 1835' and right 'Hunterian Museum'. Signed in ink bottom right 'H Tiedemann delin.'

Subject: Eugenics / Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the brain of the negro [sic], compared with that of the European and the orang-outang' by Friedrich Tiedemann.

Received and read to the Royal Society on 9 June 1836.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite on paper
Dimensions194x181mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1836.0025
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0248
RelatedRecordPT/22/5
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2510Tiedemann; Friedrich (1781 - 1861)1781 - 1861
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