Harvard Removes Human Skin From The Binding Of A Book Dating Back To 1880s iflscience.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iflscience.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections.
Of the roughly 20 million books in Harvard University’s libraries, one has long exerted a unique dark fascination, not for its contents, but for the material it was bound in: human skin.
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