Background: Rotated detail from an illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark

Foreground: From Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent_of_Man,_and_Selection_in_Relation_to_Sex
- commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Descent_of_Man_%28A._L._Burt_edition%29

The Banker is one of the members of the Snark hunting party. Henry Holiday can draw ears. If the Banker's ear looks strange it is meant to look strange.