Punch,  62 (1872), 167.

Literature, Science, and Art

Anon

Genre:

Regular Feature, News-Digest, Spoof

Subjects:

Societies, Botany, Geology, Ethnology, Human Development, Anthropology


    Reports that experiments at the 'Royal Farinaceous Society' prove that a substance produced by the roots of the cassava plant is a 'sure prophylactic against lassitude' when drunk with brandy. Reports the discovery of a waistcoat button in the older pliocene beds of Bedfordshire, and regards this as evidence for the existence of man 'at a period long anterior to the dates hitherto current in geological circles'. Expects such news will lead to a 'serious revolution in anthropological science'.



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