Poster advertising exhibition of a human fossil

BGS image ID: P849851

This poster was found in the back of a scrapbook that belonged to Roderick Murchison (1792-1871) who was Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1855-1871. The Cuvier referred to is Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (1769-1832), generally known as Georges Cuvier. He was a comparative anatomist, zoologist, geologist and vertebrate palaeontologist and a proponent of catastrophism.

Andrew L Morrison