A section through a black man's brain compared with one through a chimpanzee brain. Lithograph by F. Robinson, 1865, after F. Tiedemann and after W. Vrolik and Schr. van der Kolk..

(W West imp)

1 print : lithograph ; 24.2 x 31.3 cm

Negro. Chimpanzee. F Robinson lith W West imp

Wellcome Collection 39735i

"Fig, 1, Left moiety of a bisected brain of a Negro: nat. size. From Tiedemann, op. cit. (Philosophical Transactions, 1836), pl. 33), This section of the recent brain was made after its removal from the cranial cavity. Fig. 2. Left moiety of the brain of a Chimpanzee (Troglodytes niger) : nat, size. From Schr. van der Kolk and W. Vrolik, op. cit. plaat 2. fig, 1 …" (Owen, op. cit. p. 55). The publication by Schr. van der Kolk and W. Vrolik was earlier cited by Owen as "Ontleedkundige nasparingen over de gedaante en het maaksel der hersenen van den Chimpanse' (Nieuwe Verhandlingen der erste Klasse van bet Koningl. Nederlandsche Instituut, &c. Amsterd. 4to)"