Re: Brain banking
I failed to add in my earlier message that two other collections that should also be mentioned are those at the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia and the Wistar Brain Collection at the Wistar Institute, also in Philadelphia. The latter consists of prominent individuals who donated their brains for study by Edward Spitzka and the American Anthropometric Society, including William Osler and Walt Whitman. There is a growing literature on anatomy museums and anatomical collections, particularly in Germany and the United States, which may give you one segue to the topic. George Joseph