EditorialMeeting of the Royal Society in Somerset House. The hall is decorated with portraits of members including John Evelyn, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Humphrey Davy, Sir Martin Folkes, etc. Steel engraving by Henry Melville after an illustration by Fairholt from...
Editorial"Stocks for hands and feet, with bed and hand stocks (from the approved models"). A man and woman in stocks; in the lower right hand corner is a calabash water container (called "too-too" in Trinidad). Notes in the book: "this is a common punishment f...
EditorialThe dolphin. West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro character, the process of making sugar, &c., from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in, the island of Trinidad. London : published for the proprietor, by Robert ...
EditorialThe pitch lake. West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro character, the process of making sugar, &c., from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in, the island of Trinidad. London : published for the proprietor, by Robe...
EditorialFlying fish. West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro character, the process of making sugar, &c., from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in, the island of Trinidad. London : published for the proprietor, by Robert ...
EditorialSir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829), English chemist and inventor of the safety lamp. Portrait. Lessons from Noble lives. T. Nelson & Sons, London, 1875 - 8. Source: 10602.aaaa.14, title page.
EditorialFall of the Traun. The Traun is a river in Austria. Salmonia; or, Days of fly fishing. In a series of conversations, with some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. By an Angler [i.e. Sir Humphry Davy].]. London : John Murray, 1...
EditorialA pirate sitting on Davy Jone's locker, looking at a seahorse. The Pearl and the Pumpkin ... With pictures by Denslow. T. Fisher Unwin: London; New York [printed, 1904]. Source: 12809.o.48 page 176.
EditorialMeeting of the Royal Society in Somerset House. The hall is decorated with portraits of members including John Evelyn, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Humphrey Davy, Sir Martin Folkes, etc. Steel engraving by Henry Melville after an illustration by Fairholt from...
EditorialMEETING OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY AT SALISBURY: DEVONS, NO. 176, FIRST PRIZE BULL, £30, MR. JAMES DAVY (LEFT), NO. 201. FIRST PRIZE HEIFER, £15, MR. EDWARD POPE (RIGHT).