Comparative model of 'The withdrawal of the fibula from the knee'

Maker
Cyril Harry Barnett (b.1919, d.1970)
Date
1957
 Description
Comparative anatomy model comparing the femur, tibia and fibula from a reptile, monotreme, marsupial, and primate. The display was intended to illustrate the reduction in size of the femora-fibular facets and relative increase of the tibio-fibular facets from reptile to mammal. These facets have been marked on the bones in blue and red paint. This specimen was part of the original Anatomy Museum displays. The model is signed 'C. H. Barnett' - Cyril Barnett was a British anatomist who received a grant to work in the Melbourne University Anatomy Dept. from 1956-7 under Sir Sydney Sunderland. Barnett was described as being influenced by, and a friend of, Frederic Wood Jones. Barnett wrote papers on what we would now call biomechanics. https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E005632b.htm
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Object detail

Maker
Date
1957
Production place
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Accession number
516-500074
Inscriptions
original/labels ▫ The withdrawal of the fibula from the knee. Note the reduction in size od the femoro-fibular facets (blue) and the relative increase of the tibio-fibular facets (red) in passing from reptile to higher mammal. C. H. Barnett
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Object type
models
animal tissue
Harry Brookes Allen Museum Anatomy Category
Comparative anatomy
Reptiles
Monotremes
Kangaroos and relatives (Macropodiformes)
Primates
Museum
Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology

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