UNIQUE MUSEUM
PRESERVING FAMOUS BRAINS LONDON, 24th April. \ Professor of Economy has boon appointed curator of a unique museum at Vienna, in which the brains of famous artists, scientists, writers, and of lie." will be preserved under glass An appeal is being made It) leaning men of inlelleel to enrich tlie collection. There is sufficient Mince to exhibit tlie brains of 1000 persons, who arc asked to will them to the museum. The shapes and weight of the brains and skulls ol men of genius will be thoroughly studied. The brain of Hermann Hnilermaun, the jjlay weight. bequeathed by (lie Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin, lias been examined microscopically, and a full analyliial description of Stider- , paint’s qualifies as a writer is being prepared parallel lo the aiiatomual )i----searcli.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 May 1931, Page 3
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