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Description: | Lithograph, pen: 'Awful Changes'. H.T. de la Beche del. et lith. [c1833]. 25.5x31cm in frame 42x44.5cm. A scientific lecture is in progress, by Professor Ichthyosaurus, exampling a skull of man as a lower order of animals: a geologist's caricature of public scientific lecture on the fossil record and evolution of mankind. Years before Darwin's Origin of species 1859; used as frontispiece to the 1863 edition of Francis Buckland's book, Curiosities of natural history | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | print | Temporal: | 1833 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Beche, H T de la | Identifier: | 1981-1744 | Go to resource |
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