'Plumbum galaena' victoire Britannia swoons on the left

Britannia swoons on the left and a devil views the scene with glee on right

Disraeli had said that the government had not received any official confirmation of the atrocities apparently being perpetrated in Bulgaria

This would

1st March 1956

William Thomson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851

'Plumbum galaena' victoire Britannia swoons on the leftSpecimen of Galena (lead sulphide) here termed 'sulphure of lead; galaena'. Plate 24 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R. Taylor & Co., 1804). The accompanying text states that "This is the commonest lead ore The present specimen came from Derbyshire, and is valuable from having the primitive cubic crystals so distinct." The plate is inscribed: "May 1