User:Josephlis/George Halford

George Halford was the first professor of anatomy at the Medical School of Melbourne University. He came to Australia from the UK and was a believer in the theories of Charles Darwin which had a big influence on his work.

Halford wrote on a wide range of topics, including venomous snake bites, anatomical topics and the murder case of George Harrison. This led to a debate in the papers, approaches to the offender and a dispute over his right to dissect the head of the executed criminal that was described in the paper as "the battle of the brain".