Brain of an apteryx (kiwi): figures showing dissections of the brain. Watercolour and ink with pencil, possibly by D. Gascoigne Lillie, 1906.

1906

1 painting : watercolour with ink and pencil ; sheet 59.2 x 77.2 cm

V 06 Extensive hand-written notes on verso include: 'The chief object of interest is the nasal organ. It is larger and more highly developed than in any other bird I have done' 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 572995i