EditorialPlatypleura, Print, The cicada genus Platypleura occurs widely across Africa and southern Asia. Some of the South African species are remarkable for their endothermic thermoregulation that enables crepuscular signalling, an adaptation that reduces risk...
EditorialMiniature of monks at Cuthbert's hermitage signalling with torches to the monks of Lindisfarne that Cuthbert is dead, from Chapter 40 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert. Prose Life of St. Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of ...
EditorialSpecial flags of the new international code (1901). Signalling. How to learn the use of the new International Code of Signals as required at the B.O.T. examinations. ... Second edition. Glasgow : James Brown & Son, 1901. Source: 08805.e.27 plate 3.
EditorialIllustrated front cover, showing a naval rating raising a flag. Signalling. How to learn the use of the new International Code of Signals as required at the B.O.T. examinations. ... Second edition. Glasgow : James Brown & Son, 1901. Source: 08805.e.27 ...
EditorialNew commercial code signals, January 1901. . Signalling. How to learn the use of the new International Code of Signals as required at the B.O.T. examinations. ... Second edition. Glasgow : James Brown & Son, 1901. Source: 08805.e.27 plate 4.
EditorialMiniature of monks at Cuthbert's hermitage signalling with torches to the monks of Lindisfarne that Cuthbert is dead, from Chapter 40 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert. Prose Life of St. Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of ...
EditorialAbove, miniature showing the Last Judgment with Christ, enthroned in majesty, accompanied by angels, Mary and saints, with trumpeting angels signalling the resurrection of the dead, beneath their feet. Below, historiated initial 'K', beginning Litany o...
EditorialFlags of the new international code of signals. Signalling. How to learn the use of the new International Code of Signals as required at the B.O.T. examinations. ... Second edition. Glasgow : James Brown & Son, 1901. Source: 08805.e.27 plate 2.
EditorialCaptain Boyton off Clevedon Pier, Somerset. Illustrations of Capt. Boyton captioned: 'the umbrella sail', 'signalling', 'paddling', 'fog signals', 'Capt. Boyton in full dress', 'firing rocket' and 'luncheon'. [London] : W. W. Mrogan, printer, 67 Barbic...
EditorialFlags of the new international code of signals. Signalling. How to learn the use of the new International Code of Signals as required at the B.O.T. examinations. ... Second edition. Glasgow : James Brown & Son, 1901. Source: 08805.e.27 plate 1.
EditorialAn illustration on the subject of hand signalling. The Homograph, or every man a signal tower. London, [1808]. Source: 534.c.29, plate before page 13.
EditorialTwelve views of Maker Church depicting the different signals from the tower used by the British Navy. This shows a pre-Napoleonic signalling system used by the British Navy in the middle of the eighteenth century. It predates, and is significantly crud...
EditorialSilver tetradrachm of Demetrios Poliorketes, Hellenistic, ca. 289?288 B.C., Silver, Diameter: 1 3/16 ? 3/16 in., 0.6oz. (3 ? 0.4 cm, 17.23g), Coins, Head of Demetrios Poliorketes/Poseidon with trident, Mint of Amphipolis, Demetrios Poliorketes was amon...
EditorialEnglish dandies playing whist with cheating cardsharps at a London house, 1820. The gent at the mirror signalling to his fellow scam artists about the mark's hand. Tom and Jerry among the Swell Broad Coves. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac R...
EditorialTHE NAVAL MANOEUVRES, WITH THE HOSTILE FLEET: THE FLEET SIGNALLING WITH THE ELECTRIC SEARCH LIGHT TO THE COLLIERS AND CRUISERS AT A DISTANCE OF FORTY MILES, 1890 engraving.
EditorialTHE EASTER VOLUNTEER MANOEUVRES AT PORTSMOUTH, UK: 1. Signalling to the Front the Advance of No. 2 Marching Column on Saturday. 2. Alarm of the Natives. 3. A Letter Home from Eastney Barracks. 4. "Nell," the Pet Dog of the Royal Marine Artillery at Eas...
EditorialA miner's leather shoe and a cowhorn for signalling calls, from the prehistoric salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. It was resumed in the 12th century.