UNO STRANO TRAPIANTO TRA DARWIN E MANTEGAZZA

Autori

  • Carla Garbarino Museo per la Storia dell’Università di Pavia, Pavia
  • Paolo Mazzarello Dipartimento di Scienze del Sistema Nervoso e del Comportamento, Università di Pavia, Pavia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4081/scie.2013.171

Abstract

In the centennial anniversary of the death of the Italian pathologist, anthropologist and writer Paolo Mantegazza (1910), the University of Pavia planned a commemorative exhibition to show the versatile aspects of his scientific and literary activity. In the course of the research to prepare the exposition, a strange cheratinic horn was found at the Museum for the History of the University of Pavia labeled as ‘spur of a cock transplanted into an ear of a cow’. At the end of some historical investigation, we found that 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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Pubblicato

2013-12-30

Come citare

Garbarino, C., & Mazzarello, P. (2013). UNO STRANO TRAPIANTO TRA DARWIN E MANTEGAZZA. Istituto Lombardo - Accademia Di Scienze E Lettere - Rendiconti Di Scienze, 147. https://doi.org/10.4081/scie.2013.171