EditorialSCENES FROM AN EMIGRANT'S LIFE IN MANITOBA, CANADA, 1883: 1. Emigrants on the Way to their Allotment. 2. A "Muggy" Night. 3. "Smudging" Mosquitoes. 4. In a Slough. 5. Arrival at the Camping Ground. 6. Oxen Seeking Protection from Mosquitoes at a "Smudg...
EditorialSir WIlliam Herschel's telescope or the Great Forty-Foot reflecting telescope built between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Univer...
EditorialSir WIlliam Herschel's telescope or the Great Forty-Foot telescope built between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798....