Harvard removes binding of human skin from book in library

The book arrived at Harvard in 1934, via United States diplomat John B. Stetson, an heir to the hat fortune.

“After careful study, stakeholder engagement, and consideration, Harvard Library and the Harvard Museum Collections Returns Committee concluded that the human remains used in the book’s binding no longer belong in the Harvard Library collections, due to the ethically fraught nature of the book’s origins and subsequent history,” the university said in a statement.

In a statement, Harvard’s president at the time, Lawrence S. Bacow, apologised for the university’s role in practices that “placed the academic enterprise above respect for the dead and human decency”. The book arrived at Harvard in 1934, via United States diplomat John B. Stetson, an heir to the hat fortune.

The letter, signed by Dr Needham and two other leaders of the group, said the library had a history of handling the book “brutishly on a regular basis, as an attention-grabbing, sensationalised display item”.

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