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    Credit: ©The Royal Society/Jean Adams
    Image number: RS.11724

    Group portrait of Alfred Jost, Helen Kemp Porter and Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett

    Date
    1956
    Sitter
    Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett (1897 - 1968, British) , Physiologist
    Alfred Jost (1916 - 1991, French) , Endocrinologist
    Helen Kemp Porter (1899 - 1987, British) , Plant physiologist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 89mm
    width (print): 141mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > monkey
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Alfred Jost, Helen Kemp Porter and Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett, standing in Petticoat Lane market. Porter holds a squirrel monkey [?] dressed in a costume, Huggett holds its left hand.

    Inscribed on the back ‘Prof. Alfred Jost, Helen & A.St.G.H & homo insapien. Petticoat Lane $:23.2.64’ and pencilled ‘3605’.

    Alfred Jost (1916-1991) was a French endocrinologist.

    Helen Kemp Porter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.

    Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett (1897-1968) was a British physiologist and obstetrician, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1958.


    Object history
    From a collection of photographs of Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett and Helen Kemp Porter, presented to the Royal Society for duplication by Jean Adams in June 2016.
    Associated place
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