Ariens Kapper and Shellshear

Notes and references from research and publications by Dr CU Ariens Kapper and Dr JL Shellshear.

  • AA 105/8/28/1
    'Kappers Plate 48' - Six hand drawn brain diagrams labelled Rhodesia, Dusseldorf, Prdmost iii, Orang-Outang, Chimpanzee, and Pithecanthropus.

  • AA 105/8/28/2
    One page of nine hand drawn brain diagrams split into two sections called 'Kappers p. 223.' and 'Australian Aboriginal Brain'

  • AA 105/8/28/3
    'Kappers p. 226'
    Four hand drawn brain diagrams. two labelled right and left of Chimpanzee and the other two labelled right and left of Pithecanthropus. Each diagram has been numbered and the numbers correlate with a table explaining the various sections of the two diagrams.

  • AA 105/8/28/4
    'Lower Palaeolithic Man'
    Seven hand drawn brian diagrams labelled "Dusseldorf left", "Dusseldorf right", "La Chapelle left", "La Quina left", "La Quina right", "Rhodesia left", and "Rhodesia (p. 233)". The various sections of the brain have been labelled on each diagram.

  • AA 105/8/28/5
    'Upper Palaeolithic Man'
    Six hand drawn brian diagrams labelled "Premost ix Left", "Premost ix Right", "Premost iv Left", "Premost iv Right", Premost iii Left", and "Premost x Left". The various sectiongs of the brain have been labelled on each diagram.

  • AA 105/8/28/6/1-3
    'Australian Aboriginal'
    Fourteen hand drawn brain diagrams over three pages of an Australian Aboriginal person's brain.

  • AA 105/8/28/7/1-11
    'The Brain of an Australian Aboriginal - A Study in Cerebral Morphology'
    Eleven page of hand written notes referenced from Shellshear, Dr Joseph L, 1937, "The Brain of an Australian Aboriginal - A Study in Cerebral Morphology", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Science, Vol. 227, No. 545, Pg. 293-409.

  • AA 105/8/28/8/1-22
    'Shellshear'
    Twenty-two pages of brain diagrams. Several of the pages state that the diagrams are drawn from samples dissected by Dr Cornelius U Ariens Kappers and Sir Grafton Elliot Smith.

CreatorFry, Dr Henry Kenneth
ControlAA 105/8/28/1-9
Quantity 4cm,    
FormatsLoose Notes, Diagrams
Series AA105/08