Dr Fossil, an evolutionist, coming up against an interested couple's misguided views, at an anthropological society meeting. Wood engraving by W. Mackay, 1873.

  • Mackay, Wallis.
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4 January 1873
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13806i
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Dr Fossil, an evolutionist, coming up against an interested couple's misguided views, at an anthropological society meeting. Wood engraving by W. Mackay, 1873. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Bears caption: 'Scene - Conversazione of the Therebihangsatailogical Society. Dr. Fossil. "You observe, like the Os Calcis, there a projection here of the --" Lady Listener (eager with demonstration). "That shows we cannot have been monkeys, Dr. Fossil; because in real people that part is the funny bone." Military Escort (with evidently clear view of the theory). "Very true. I think it's absurd, you know, to imagine that - aw - fellah could ever have been a man - arm is much too long to hold a gun properly; proves it, beyond a doubt - aw!" [Exit Dr. Fossil, a sadder if not a wiser man.'

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London (85 Fleet Street, in the parish of St.Bride) : Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 4 January 1873 ([London] : Joseph Smith)

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1 print : wood engraving ; border 15.6 x 17.9 cm

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"Baffled science slow retires." ... WM

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Reproduced: Janet Browne, "Apes in the family tree: Thomas Henry Huxley - 100 years on", TRP3: research and funding news from the Wellcome Trust, 1995, no. 3, p. 9

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Wellcome Collection 13806i

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Attributed to Wallis Mackay (1850-1907), who contributed to Punch between 1870 and 1874. He later signed with a W above an M, rather than alongside it as here

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