Portrait of Henry Charlton Bastian (1837-1915) mb-width 3356 23rd December 1966

23rd December 1966

Inscribed lower left 'Ic

The story goes that Lord Eglinton had heard that the Cardinal

The sitter is bearded and wears a black jacket and waistcoat

reads a speech or announcement

Portrait of Henry Charlton Bastian (1837-1915) mb-width 3356 23rd December 1966Formal 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: