EditorialBattle of the Hydaspes (326 BC). Battle between Alexander the Great and King Porus, ruler of the Indian kingdom of Paurava. The battle took place along the Jhelum River (called Hydaspes by the ancient Greeks), in what is today Pakistan, during Alexande...
EditorialRecto, above: Charles V defeating the Turks near Vienna, 1529, preliminary design for lost painting on the Canto de' Bischeri in Florence erected on the occasion of the entry of Christina of Lorraine, bride of Duke Ferdinando de' Medici, 1589; Recto, b...
EditorialMorpho butterfly, Morpho laertes 1, and hydaspes eighty-eight or little callicore, Callicore hydaspes 2,3. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.