Harvard removes human skin from the binding of a library book. The decision was made after a review found ethical issues regarding the origin and history of the book.
Arsène Houssaye's book Des destinées de l'âme (The Destinies of the Soul, from 1880), kept in one of its libraries. The volume's first owner, the French doctor and bibliophile Ludovic Bouland (1839-1933), bound the book with leather he took without consent from the body of a deceased patient.