This curious object tells the story of a
rather hairy encounter between Charles
Darwin and a man called Dr Frank Chance.
Dr. Chance attempted to counter Darwin's
claim in Descent of Man that beard hairs
always lighter than hair on the head and
went to start sharing some of his own
shearings with the great man himself.
Frank's beard and scalp hair clearly
grew on Darwin he mentioned his
observations in the second edition.
Darwin was happy for his readers to
question his work even by this strange
means.
