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Drawing, base of brain of Ethiopian male by J Wagner

Reference number: PT/74/3/17a

Date: 1836

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Plate 32 showing an anatomical study of the base of the brain of an Ethiopian male. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in graphite bottom right 'J Wagner de natura del.' The key from the previous tracing is added to the final plate by the engraver.

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.

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PT/74/3/17a
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1836
Physical description
Graphite on tracing paper, mounted on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

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Friedrich Tiedemann

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Friedrich Tiedemann, Drawing, base of brain of Ethiopian male by J Wagner, 1836, PT/74/3/17a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_3_17a/drawing-base-of-brain-of-ethiopian-male-by-j-wagner, accessed on 18 April 2025

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