Category: Travel Writing
The arrangement of the present edition has been made with the view of simplifying, as much as possible, the reference to particular objects; as well as of enabling the visitor to regularly explore with advantage every portion of the Crystal Palace. The splendid Botanical Colle...
NATURE PRINTING.--The specimens exhibited of this new process for obtaining life-like or physiotypic impressions of plants are mostly of FERNS and MOSSES, but the process is sti...
2. PART II.NOTE.--The following Guide conducts the visitor up the Colonnade from the Railway Station, through the South Wing into the building. Passing through the nearest section of the N...
8. PART II.Animals and plants are not scattered indifferently over the earth’s surface, but are grouped together in assemblages of different kinds. The animals and plants of the British Is...
7. PART I._Ethnology_ is compounded of two Greek words, the latter of which scarcely requires explanation, because it already forms part of a numerous class of compounds with which the le...
1. PART I.The arrangement of the present edition has been made with the view of simplifying, as much as possible, the reference to particular objects; as well as of enabling the visitor t...
3. PART III.NOTE.--The arrangement of the following Division assumes the visitor to enter the Garden from the Central Transept, whence he proceeds to inspect the _Terraces_ and the _Italian...
9. Book vii., Chap. 5.“In other apartments--that is, in those of Spring, Autumn, and Summer, as also in the atrium and peristylium--the ancients have established certain methods of painting. A pictur...
5. PART I.GROUP I. TIBETANS 7 II. EAST INDIANS 8 III. SUMATRANS AND JAVANESE 11 IV. DYAKS OF BORNEO 19 V. ISLANDERS OF THE LOUISADE ARCHIPELAGO 25 VI. DANAKIL AND NEGRO OF THE EASTERN COA...
6. PART II.