Darwin : "the descent of man".

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[1924]
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Darwin : "the descent of man". In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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This is a cigarette card given away free inside packets of Shelley cigarettes in 1924 by J. Milhoff & Co. Ltd. It is no. 10 in a series of 25 called Men of genius. A portrait of Darwin is on the front above the skulls of an ape and a man. A brief statement about his evolutionary theories is on the reverse.

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London : J. Milhoff & Co., [1924]

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1 sheet : color illustrations, portrait ; 7 cm.

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