Brain of a goose or a guillemot: figures showing dissections and microscopic images of the brain. Watercolour, pencil and pen possibly by D. Gascoigne Lillie, ca 1906.

1906

1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 56.1 x 77.5 cm

Guillemot Drawing is annotated by hand in pencil

The name of the zoologist responsible for this drawing is not known, although the subjects of the dissections in this series of watercolours suggests an Australasian, such as Denis Gascoigne Lillie or T. Jeffery Parker. One of the specimens depicted in the series was picked up at 'W. Renton [?] beach', which has not been located

Wellcome Collection 573018i