Portrait of Henry Charlton Bastian (1837-1915) mb-width 1687 Dedicated to the Anti-Gallican Society

Dedicated to the Anti-Gallican Society

Plate 3 from A Description of the Muscles of the Human Body

Half length studio portrait of Bowerbank

Horse-drawn vehicles and figures can be seen

Portrait of Henry Charlton Bastian (1837-1915) mb-width 1687 Dedicated to the Anti-Gallican SocietyFormal photographic portrait of Henry Charlton Bastian, seated left, half face. Inscription on card reads: 'MAULL & FOX 187 PICCADILLY, LONDON. W' In 1887, Bastian became Physician at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, London. Bastian was an advocate of the doctrine of abiogenesis, a theory that living organisms can arise spontaneously from inanimate matter. Bastian was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1868. Original: