Two specimens of fern leaf mb-width 1789 This cartoon may be satirising

This cartoon may be satirising the length of the average Chancery case during the mid-Victorian period

1876-1883)

Nobby Stiles

View showing the different stages of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade scaling ladder drill

Two specimens of fern leaf mb-width 1789 This cartoon may be satirisingA photogenic drawing of two plant specimens, the leaves placed on sensitized paper and exposed to sunlight. Inscribed above in ink: 'An early attempt at Photography from Norwich.' Apparently, an early use of the process developed by William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (1800 1877). The naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790 1872) in whose papers this image is preserved, practised as a surgeon in Swaffham, Norfolk, 1816 c. 1859.