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A Strange Horn between Paolo Mantegazza and Charles Darwin (2013)

Garbarino, Carla (Author)
Mazzarello, Paolo (Author)

Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Volume: 37
Pages: 184-187
Publication date: 2013
Language: English

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Correspondence and corresponding Curiosities and wonders Natural history 19th century Italy Mantegazza, Paolo Darwin, Charles Robert University History Museum of the University of Pavia (Italy)

During the preparation of an exhibition in Pavia dedicated to the centennial anniversary of the death of the Italian Pathologist Paolo Mantegazza, a strange cheratinic horn was found at the Museum for the History of the University of Pavia labelled as `spur of a cock transplanted into an ear of a cow.' After some historical investigation, we found this strange object was at the centre of a scientific correspondence between Mantegazza and Charles Darwin, who made reference to it in his book The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.

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Description On a strange object at the Museum for the History of the University of Pavia that was discussed in correspondence between Mantegazza and Darwin.

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