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IV. Some Additions to a Paper, read in 1790, on the Subject of a 
Child with a double Head. By Everard Home, Esq. F. R. S. 
Read December 13, 1798. 
In the year 1790, 1 laid before this learned Society, an account 
of a child with a double head, illustrated by drawings, which 
is honoured with a place in the Philosophical Transactions, 
Vol. LXXX. 
Since that time, Mr. Dent, the gentleman who sent over 
from India the double skull, which was shewn at the meeting 
when the Paper was read, has returned to England. Among 
his drawings there are two portraits of the double head, taken 
by Mr. Devis, an artist of considerable merit, \\*ho was upon 
a visit at Mr. Dent’s house, in Bengal, when the child was 
brought there alive, to be shewn as a curiosity. These draw- 
ings give a more faithful representation of the appearance of 
the double head, than the engravings annexed to the former 
Paper, and at the same time exhibit a striking likeness of the 
child’s features. 
Mr. Dent has given permission to have them copied ; and, 
from a desire to render as complete as possible, the account and 
representation of so curious and rare an instance of deviation 
from the natural structure in the human body, they are now of- 
fered to the Society, (see Tab. II. and III.) with some observa- 
tions made by Mr. Dent, as a supplement to the former Paper. 
