Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Instrument-makers, Invention, Patronage, Physics, Dynamics, Sound

Institutions mentioned:

Royal Military College, Sandhurst Royal Military College, Sandhurst
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    Reports the awarding of one of the 'most liberal rewards' of the Royal Society of Arts Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
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Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Invention, Machinery

    Reports the introduction of a 'canal-digging machine' in Paris.

Genre:

Anecdote

Subjects:

Sound, Exploration

Publications cited:

Parry 1826 Parry, William Edward 1826. Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Performed in the Years 1824–25, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Fury, Under the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry, London: John Murray
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Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Invention, Medical Treatment

    Describes the invention by 'a French surgeon' of an instrument for listening to the sound produced on the chest or abdomen by percussion.

Genre:

Extract, Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

Literary Gazette Literary Gazette (1817–62) Parthenon (1863) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Industry, Progress, Discovery

Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Invention, Instruments

    Describes the invention by John Leslie Leslie, Sir John (1766–1832) DSB ODNB
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Genre:

Extract, Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

New Monthly Magazine New Monthly Magazine (1814–81) New Monthly (1882–84) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Mental Illness

    The article relates chiefly to the tall tales of a sporting friend of the writer, of whose lies it is observed: 'I shall not attempt to trace the causes of this infirmity of mind; but wherever it exists in the same degree, I consider it as presenting a case for the consideration of the physician rather than of the moralist' (43).

Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Chemistry, Heat

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Heat, Light

People mentioned:

Antoine A F Cadet de Vaux Cadet de Vaux (or Cadet-Devaux or Cadet le jeune), Antoine-Alexis-François (1743–1828) DSB
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Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Heat, Chemistry

Genre:

Instructions

Subjects:

Horticulture

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Biblical Authority, Ethnography

    Relates that the 'tradition of a deluge has been preserved by the Sandwich islanders'.

Genre:

Epitaph, Poetry

Subjects:

Pharmaceuticals

    'If drugs and physic could but save / Us mortals from the dreary grave, / 'Tis known that I took full enough / Of the apothecary's stuff / To have prolong'd life's busy feast / To a full century at least; / But spite of all the doctor's skill, / Of daily draught and nightly pill, / Reader, as sure as you're alive, / I was sent here at twenty-five'.

Genre:

Miscellanous

Subjects:

Botany, Biogeography

Genre:

Extract, Biography

Publications extracted:

Walter Scott
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Subjects:

War, Education, Mathematics, Utility

    Focuses on the Duke of York's role as 'the reformer and regenerator of the British army Army
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Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Disease, Death, Medical Practitioners

People mentioned:

Astley P Cooper Cooper, Sir Astley Paston, 1st Baronet (1768–1841) ODNB
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Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Death, Putrefaction

People mentioned:

John Nussey, Nussey, John (d. 1862) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> Everard A Brande Brande, Everard Augustus (1776–1868) WBI
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Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Instruments, Invention, Meteorology

Genre:

Extract, Essay

Publications extracted:

Inspector Inspector (1826–27) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Psychology, Metaphysics, Associationism, Physiology, Nutrition, Temperance, Quackery, Exploration, Instruments, Race

    Offers no account of the author's 'views of the metaphysical part of this subject' which he or she has 'for years endeavoured to analyze, and reduce to rules by personal experiment'. The author observes: 'whether dreams are to be accounted for by the ordinary laws of imagination and association; or whether the theories of Hobbes Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679) DSB
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Close   View the register entry >>, be the more correct, or agreeable to my experience, I need not now explain'. Promises to readers the means to 'control the character' of their dreams. Rejects the notion of 'half-informed physiologists' that unpleasant dreams result from 'repletion of blood in the sinuses of the brain'. Attributes them instead largely to the 'derangement of the sinuses of the stomach and digestive organs' in consequence of inappropriate eating. 'Nature, Providence, Abernethy Abernethy, John (1764–1831) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, and Dreaming, are all against clogging and turnpiking the interior'. (91) Describes as dangerous quackery the advice on procuring pleasant dreams published by 'a ruffian, whom some amusingly call a philosopher, one Dr. Franklin Franklin, Benjamin (1706–90) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>, an American'. Advises against large or small 'bed rooms', reporting: 'In one of the first kind which I had, I dreamed of nothing but being out hunting bears with captain Parry Parry, Sir William Edward (1790–1855) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, in nankeens without drawers; and in one of the latter, I was regularly twice a week, a rat in an air pump'. Gives advice on making beds, and continues, 'But where is the use of having a philosophically constructed bed, if you do not study a scientific and accurate method of lying in it?—you may as well put a Troughton's Troughton, Edward (1753–1836) DSB
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Genre:

Extract, Serial

Publications extracted:

Hall 1826 Hall, Basil 1826. Voyage to Loo-choo, and Other Places in the Eastern Seas, in the Year 1816: Including an Account of Captain Maxwell's Attack on the Batteries at Canton; and Notes of an Interview with Buonaparte at St. Helena, in August 1817, Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications, 1, Edinburgh: Constable
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Subjects:

Scientific Practitioners, Mathematics

    Describes Basil Hall's attempts to see Napoleon on St Helena. Napoleon declines to see him until he learns that Hall is the son of James Hall, Hall, Sir James (1761–1832) DSB
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Genre:

Extract, Anecdote

Publications extracted:

Dagley 1826 Dagley, Richard 1826. Death's Doings: Consisting of Numerous Original Compositions, in Prose and Verse, the Friendly Contributions of Various Writers; Principally Intended as Illustrations of Twenty-four Plates, London: J. Andrews and W. Cole
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Subjects:

Medical Practitioners

Genre:

Extract, Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

National Magazine National Magazine (1826–27) COPAC
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Subjects:

Astronomy, Aesthetics, Travel, Piety, Feeling

    The writer describes the striking alteration in the appearance of the heavens on travelling to the southern hemisphere, and its effect upon the European traveller. He refers to the particular beauty of the 'Cross of the south', and observes that it is an 'object of peculiar veneration' to Roman Catholics (98). He describes how, on his first voyage across the equator, several of the crew followed the example of one bred a Catholic in falling to their knees at the sight of it, 'not indeed from religion' but because 'their stubborn hearts were overcome by the solemn stillness and beauty of the scene around them, and the pure feeling which such sights and such a recognition were calculated to inspire' (99).

Genre:

Extract, Serial

Publications extracted:

Hall 1826 Hall, Basil 1826. Voyage to Loo-choo, and Other Places in the Eastern Seas, in the Year 1816: Including an Account of Captain Maxwell's Attack on the Batteries at Canton; and Notes of an Interview with Buonaparte at St. Helena, in August 1817, Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications, 1, Edinburgh: Constable
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Subjects:

Scientific Practitioners, Government, Patronage, Society, Exploration, Ethnography

    Basil Hall tells Napoleon that his father, James Hall, Hall, Sir James (1761–1832) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> had often expressed 'great admiration of the encouragement he had given to science while he was emperor of the French', which gratifies Napoleon. On learning that James Hall was president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Genre:

Letter, Rejoinder

Subjects:

Physics, Experiment, Heat, Meteorology

    In response to an earlier letter (Jacobus, 'On Frost', Mirror of Literature, 9 (1827), 20–21), the writer details his or her experiments on the subject.

Genre:

Anecdote

Subjects:

Experiment, Chemistry, Display, Accidents

People mentioned:

Guillaume F Rouelle Rouelle, Guillaume-François (1703–70) DSB
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Genre:

Anecdote, Extract

Publications extracted:

Keppel 1827 Keppel, George Thomas 1827. Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England: By Bussorah, Bagdad, the Ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the Court of Persia, the Western Shore of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan, Nishney Novogorod, Moscow and St. Petersburgh, in the year 1824, London: Henry Colburn
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Subjects:

Steamships, Invention, Superstition, Cultural Geography

Genre:

Reportage, Extract

Publications extracted:

Southey 1823–32 Southey, Robert 1823–32. History of the Peninsular War, 3 vols, London: John Murray
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Subjects:

Epidemiology, War, Putrefaction

Genre:

Travelogue, Extract

Publications extracted:

Gentleman's Magazine Gentleman's Magazine (1731–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Museums, Palaeontology, Mineralogy

    Describes the existence of a 'collection of fossils and minerals' at the Hospice de Grand St. Bernard Hospice de Grand St Bernard
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Genre:

Extract, Reportage

Publications extracted:

Southey 1823–32 Southey, Robert 1823–32. History of the Peninsular War, 3 vols, London: John Murray
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Subjects:

War, Epidemiology

Genre:

Letter

Subjects:

Invention, Time

See also:

Anon, 'Church and Turret Clocks', Mirror of Literature, 9 (1827), 12–13

Genre:

Extract—Miscellaneous; Table

Publications extracted:

Monthly Magazine Monthly Magazine (1796–1843) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Physics

Publications cited:

Bevan 1826 Bevan, Benjamin 1826. 'Experiments on the Strength of Cohesion of Wood', Philosophical Magazine, 68, 269–70; 343–44
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Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Palaeontology, Discovery

Publications cited:

Edinburgh Philosophical Journal Edinburgh Philosophical Journal (1819–26) Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1826–64) Waterloo Directory
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Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Invention, Metrology, Technology

Genre:

Extract, Travelogue

Publications extracted:

[Best] 1826 [Best, Henry D.] 1826. Four Years in France; or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there During that Period; Preceded by Some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith, London: Henry Colburn.
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Subjects:

Geology, Biblical Authority, Scientific Practitioners, Infidelity

    Discusses the evident separation of the Rock of Avignon from the hills on the other side of the Rhone, observing that its cause 'is a question that might puzzle a writer of theories on the formation of the earth'. Remarks: 'If we can believe, what philosophers would readily enough believe were not the fact asserted in the bible,—that the earth was at one time covered with water, even the tops of the mountains,—and if we can suppose also that currents existed in this deluge; then, on the subsiding of the waters, these currents might meet with the summits and ridges of hills, and work and wear for themselves a passage, the waters of the deluge gradually retiring, but, in the mean time, sustaining the currents at the requisite height'. Urges 'humility in Scriptural interpretation'. (150)

Genre:

Miscellaneous, Extract

Publications extracted:

Best 1826 [Best, Henry D.] 1826. Four Years in France; or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there During that Period; Preceded by Some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith, London: Henry Colburn.
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Subjects:

Meteorology, Instruments

    Reports that on one of the panes of the dining room window 'a thermometer, with the scale marked on glass, was fixed on the outside; thus the temperature of the outer air might be known without opening the casement' (165).

Genre:

Extract, Travelogue

Publications extracted:

Menu von Minutoli 1827 Menu von Minutoli, Wolfradine 1827. Recollections of Egypt, London: Treuttel & Wurtz
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Subjects:

Race, Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Quackery, Faith, Miracle, Superstition

    Reports a general conviction among the 'Orientals' that all Europeans 'have a knowledge of medicine and necromancy'. Observes that it is 'easy to acquire the reputation of an able physician', and reports: 'the really skilful medical man who accompanied us during our tour in Upper Egypt, was accustomed [...] in imitation of the celebrated Sangrado, of happy memory, to administer only the most simple remedies, which never failed to produce a prompt and marvellous effect'. (167) The reference is to Dr Sangrado, a quack doctor in Alain R Le Sage's Le Sage, Alain René (1668–1747) CBD
Close   View the register entry >> novel Gil Blas Le Sage, Alain René 1715–35. Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, Paris: Ribou
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Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Botany, Natural Economy, Providence

Genre:

Anecdote, Extract

Publications extracted:

New Monthly Magazine New Monthly Magazine (1814–81) New Monthly (1882–84) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Scientific Practitioners, Heroism, Morality, Religion

    Records the reported observations of Franklin's daughter concerning his final illness, his moral conduct, and his religious beliefs.

Genre:

Anecdote, Extract

Publications extracted:

New Monthly Magazine New Monthly Magazine (1814–81) New Monthly (1882–84) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Exploration, Collecting, Status, Patronage, Museums

    Laments that Giovanni Belzoni 'died in poverty' and that 'others reaped the reputation that should be his'. Observes that 'No just mention of Belzoni occurs in the British Museum British Museum
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Genre:

Recipe

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Pharmaceuticals

Genre:

Recipe

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Pharmaceuticals

Genre:

Letter

Subjects:

Physics

See also:

Anon, 'Specific Gravities', Mirror of Literature, 9 (1827), 23

Genre:

Anecdote

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Morality

    The anecdote concerns the avaricious behaviour of a doctor called in to assist a woman in labour.

Genre:

Anecdote

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners

    Relates an anecdote of George Horne Horne, George (1730–92) ODNB
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Genre:

Extract, Instructions

Publications extracted:

Indicator Indicator (1819–21) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Mental Illness, Medical Treatment

    Advises that otherwise unexplained melancholy is due to 'some physical weakness' which should be rectified. 'The blood of a melancholy man is thick and slow' and he should therefore put his blood in motion by exercise, drinking wine, and other 'excitements'.

Genre:

Epigram, Extract

Publications extracted:

Literary Magnet Literary Magnet (1823–27) Wright's London Magnet (1828) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Pharmaceuticals

    'Philosophy, like medicine, has abundance of drugs,—few good remedies, and scarcely any specifics'.

Genre:

Extract, Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

[Hogg] 1827 [Hogg, James] 1827. 'The Shepherd's Calendar: General Anecdotes', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 21 (1827), 434–48
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Subjects:

Animal Behaviour

Genre:

Extract, Letter

Publications extracted:

Madras Courier Madras Courier (1785–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Race, Vulcanology

    A letter to the newspaper introduces an 'amusing' attempt at the English epistolatory style by a Bengalee copying clerk. It includes the following: 'Contemplating with adoration the sublime grandeur of English gentlemen, my heart and mind rebound and beat with such palpitation for joy, that it may be likened unto the vulcanic raptures of Mount Vusivious in England'.

Genre:

Miscellaneous, Instructions

Subjects:

Horticulture

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Machinery, Instrument-makers

People mentioned:

—— Boverick Boverick, —— (fl. 1760?) WBI
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Genre:

Miscellaneous, Extract

Publications extracted:

Monthly Magazine Monthly Magazine (1796–1843) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Human Species, Commerce, Race, Monstrosities, Natural History, Religion, Genius, Exhibitions

    The writer begins by observing quizically: 'We know not if, among the several qualities, to the possession of which philosophers have ascribed our superiority over frogs and jackdaws, the spirit of commerce has been duly registered—whether the continually working principle of barter, wanting in all other animals, has given a triumphant distinction to humanity, and thus proved the immortal essence of man in his day-book and ledger' (257). Describes the 'Jew slopseller' in terms that are sometimes those of natural history. Observes of his appearance, 'Horace Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BC) CBD
Close   View the register entry >> himself never imagined such a monster; it would be the head of a fox on the body of a mastiff—of a cat, fixed on the neck of an antelope'. States of his behaviour, 'it would seem some spirit of gain inhabited his every tendon and nerve, and that his body echoed and throbbed throughout with their clamour and their stirring'. Considers that his 'prime god is made at his majesty's mint' and observes: 'If he can give to second-cloth the passing freshness of superfine, he is, in his own esteem, a second Descartes Descartes, René Du Perron (1596–1650) DSB
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Genre:

Extract, Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

[Phillips 1827] [Phillips, T.] 1827. Scenes and Occurrences in Albany and Caffer-Land, South Africa, London: W. Marsh
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Subjects:

Ethnography, Natural History

Genre:

Instructions

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Pharmaceuticals

Genre:

Instructions

Subjects:

Chemistry, Domestic Economy

Genre:

Anecdote, Drollery

Subjects:

Natural History, Error, Acclimatization

    Relates that the bailie of a coastal town in Fife, watching a ship break up in a storm, noticed a turkey being washed ashore. 'Whether it was that turkeys had never then been seen in Fifeshire, or that the terrific scene had utterly confused all distinctions in his mind between zoology and ornithology' he was terrified, and announced to the town that he had seen 'a dreadful cretur'. On being questioned further he reported that he took it to be 'ane elephant'.

Genre:

Anecdote, Drollery

Subjects:

Hydropathy, Publishing

    Reports that John Pringle Pringle, Sir John, 1st Baronet (1707–82) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> mentioned in one of his works having cured a soldier by daily use of the 'dog-and-duck water'—that is, the celebrated waters drawn from the medicinal spring at the Dog and Duck Dog and Duck, tavern and medicinal spa
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Genre:

Anecdote, Drollery

Subjects:

Mathematics, Error

People mentioned:

King James I, James I, King of England and Scotland (formerly King James VI of Scotland) (1566–1625) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Henry Sacheverell Sacheverell, Henry (bap. 1674–1724) ODNB
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Genre:

Miscellaneous, Reportage

Subjects:

Disease, Physiology, Experiment, Error, Medical Treatment

People mentioned:

Georgius Baglivi Baglivi, Georgius (1668–1707) DSB
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    'Every body knows the strange effects which for many years were attributed to the bite of the tarantula, and the extent to which even scientific persons allowed their credulity to carry them on the subject' (277). Canvasses various of the physiological explanations formerly offered for the phenomena. Describes the overhaul of the subject by Dr Sanguietti Sanguietti, Dr (fl. 18th century) ML1/9/250b/5
Close   View the register entry >> and Francesco Serao Serao, Francesco (1702–1783) WBI
Close   View the register entry >>, whose experiments and publications 'effected a complete change in the opinions of well informed persons [...] who no longer believed in the venomous qualities of the tranatula, and the malady which had been attributed to their bite'. Reports a recent case detailed in the Osservatore Medico Osservatore Medico (1823–33) RLIN
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Close   View the register entry >>. Observes: 'By this case the negative conclusions of Dr. Sanguietti are shown to be without foundation', but records that the 'extraordinary symptoms formerly described' were 'probably the offspring of a heated imagination'. (278)

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Adulteration

    'How shocking 'tis our fate to dread, / By dealing with our baker! / And, while we eat our daily bread, / Befriend the undertaker! / Death oft, by pistol, sword, or knife, / Inflicts a mortal wound; / But who would think the staff of life / Would fell us to the ground?'.

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Botany

Publications cited:

Rooke 1799 Rooke, Hayman 1799. A Sketch of the Ancient and Present State of Sherwood Forest, Nottingham: S. Tupman
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    Discusses the antiquity of various trees, based on ciphers cut into the wood.

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Agriculture, Entomology

Genre:

Extract, Poetry, Drollery

Publications extracted:

[Wadd 1827a] Wadd, William 1827a. Nugae Canorae; or, Epitaphian Mementos (in Stone-Cutters' Verse) of the Medici Family of Modern Times. By Unus Quorum, London: Callow & Wilson
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Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Death, Putrefaction

    ' ——, of worm-destroying note, / With little folks who breed 'em, / Has all his life been poisoning worms, / And now's consign'd to feed 'em. / Thus, 'twixt our doctor and his foes, / Accounts are pretty 'trim; / For many years he lived by those, / And now these live on him.'

Genre:

Miscellaneous, Extract

Publications extracted:

Phillips 1827 [Phillips, T.] 1827. Scenes and Occurrences in Albany and Caffer-Land, South Africa, London: W. Marsh
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Subjects:

Natural History

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Instruments, Electricity, Meteorology, Metrology

People mentioned:

Jean A Deluc Deluc, Jean André (1727–1817) DSB
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Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Mathematics, Physics, Steam-power

Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Chemistry, Instruments, Metrology

Genre:

Anecdote

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Veterinary Science, Animal Behaviour

People mentioned:

Anthony von Iffland Iffland, Anthony von (1798–1876) WBI
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Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Botany, Wonder

People mentioned:

Richard Fletcher Fletcher, Rev Richard (of Hampstead) (fl. 1827) ML1/9/252a/4
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Genre:

Extract, Anecdote

Publications extracted:

Bevan 1827 Bevan, Edward 1827. The Honey Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology and Management, London: Baldwin, Craddock and Joy
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Subjects:

Entomology, Reason

Publications cited:

Darwin 1794–96 Darwin, Erasmus 1794–96. Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, London: James Johnson
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Genre:

Extract, Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

Brooke 1826 Brooke, Arthur de Capell 1826. Winter Sketches in Lapland; or, Illustrations of a Journey from Alten on the Shores of the Polar Sea in 69°55" North Lat. Through Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish Lapland, to Torneå at the Extremity of the Gulf of Bothnia: Intended to Exhibit a Complete View of the Mode of Travelling with Rein Deer, the Most Striking Incidents that Occured During the Journey, and the General Character of the Winter Scenery of Lapland, London: John Murray
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Subjects:

Zoology

Genre:

Reportage, Extract

Publications extracted:

Archives Générales de Médécin Archives Générales de Médécin (1823–1900+) BUCOP
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Subjects:

Death, Putrefaction, Chemistry

People mentioned:

Antoine G Labarraque Labarraque, Antoine Germain (1777–1850) WBI
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Genre:

Instructions

Subjects:

Domestic Economy, Chemistry

Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Invention, Exhibitions, Instruments, Time, Magnetism, Navigation, Exploration

People mentioned:

Jacques F Houriet Houriet, Jacques Frédéric (1743–1830) WBI
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Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Physics, Microbiology

People mentioned:

Mr Parkins, Parkins, Mr (fl. 1827) ML1/9/254a/8
Close   View the register entry >> Christian G Ehrenberg, Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried (1795–1876) DSB
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Institutions mentioned:

Royal Society Royal Society of London
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Genre:

Anecdote, Extract

Publications extracted:

Thompson 1827 Thompson, George 1827. Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa: Comprising a View of the Cape Colony, with Observations on the Progress and Prospects of British Emigrants, London: Henry Colburn
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Subjects:

Exploration, Astronomy, Navigation, Race

Genre:

Extract, Anecdote

Publications extracted:

Thompson 1827 Thompson, George 1827. Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa: Comprising a View of the Cape Colony, with Observations on the Progress and Prospects of British Emigrants, London: Henry Colburn
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Subjects:

Exploration, Animal Behaviour

Genre:

Introduction, Literary Notice; Extract, Poetry, Drollery

Publications extracted:

[Croly] 1827 [Croly, George] 1827. May Fair: In Four Cantos, London: William H. Ainsworth
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Subjects:

Exploration, Navigation, Chemistry, Steam-power, Machinery, Publishing

    The poet reviews quizzically all the items it is supposed Parry will take with him, including 'Some gallons of Sir Humphrey's Davy, Sir Humphry, Baronet (1778–1829) DSB ODNB
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Genre:

Extract, Anecdote, Drollery

Publications extracted:

Dibdin 1827 Dibdin, Thomas John 1827. The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin of the Theatres Royal, Covent-Garden, Drury-Lane, Haymarket, &c., and Author of The Cabinet, &c, 2 vols, London: H. Colburn
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Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Architecture, Dissection

    Dibdin describes a visit with Michael Kelly to the house of his friend the surgeon James Wilson Wilson, James (1765–1821) WBI
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Genre:

Anecdote

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Pharmaceuticals

Genre:

Biography, Extract

Publications extracted:

Inspector Inspector (1826–27) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Reading, Time, Astronomy, Astrology, Meteorology, Prognostication

    The narrator describes Hans Hosman, a 'venerable Dutchman' he knew some years before 'in the neighbourhood of Franklin, in Mississippi' (372). Hosman had only three books: a guide to New York, a Dutch Bible, and an almanac dated 1797. The last of these was one of his 'most especial treasures, and as the holy book ministered to the comfort of his soul, he resorted to this very frequently to obtain information in many matters relating to his body.' He frequently used it 'to learn the day of the month, the changes of the moon, the rising and setting of the sun, &c.' but 'it was more especially his oracle on the subject of the weather, when it was his constant practice to consult it, before undertaking any affair of great importance'. Often the planets 'most capriciously flew into the face of his oracle, manifestly setting at defiance its prognostications, but this never once staggered his faith in its complete authenticity. He used to say that their strange conduct must be attributed to the new-fangled notions existing in the world of latter days'. (373)

Genre:

Extract, Travelogue

Publications extracted:

Brooke 1826 Brooke, Arthur de Capell 1826. Winter Sketches in Lapland; or, Illustrations of a Journey from Alten on the Shores of the Polar Sea in 69°55" North Lat. Through Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish Lapland, to Torneå at the Extremity of the Gulf of Bothnia: Intended to Exhibit a Complete View of the Mode of Travelling with Rein Deer, the Most Striking Incidents that Occured During the Journey, and the General Character of the Winter Scenery of Lapland, London: John Murray
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Subjects:

Exploration, Aesthetics, Design

    Describes, among other things, the aurora borealis.

Genre:

Extract, Travelogue

Publications extracted:

Brooke 1826 Brooke, Arthur de Capell 1826. Winter Sketches in Lapland; or, Illustrations of a Journey from Alten on the Shores of the Polar Sea in 69°55" North Lat. Through Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish Lapland, to Torneå at the Extremity of the Gulf of Bothnia: Intended to Exhibit a Complete View of the Mode of Travelling with Rein Deer, the Most Striking Incidents that Occured During the Journey, and the General Character of the Winter Scenery of Lapland, London: John Murray
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Subjects:

Natural History, Hunting

Genre:

Extract, Travelogue

Publications extracted:

Brooke 1826 Brooke, Arthur de Capell 1826. Winter Sketches in Lapland; or, Illustrations of a Journey from Alten on the Shores of the Polar Sea in 69°55" North Lat. Through Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish Lapland, to Torneå at the Extremity of the Gulf of Bothnia: Intended to Exhibit a Complete View of the Mode of Travelling with Rein Deer, the Most Striking Incidents that Occured During the Journey, and the General Character of the Winter Scenery of Lapland, London: John Murray
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Subjects:

Natural History, Hunting, Animal Behaviour, Ethnography

Genre:

Extract, Short Fiction, Drollery

Publications extracted:

Inspector Inspector (1826–27) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Nutrition, Disease, Engineering

    The narrator has always had a huge appetite, but is slight in build: 'At fourteen, I was long, lean, and cadaverous, and to those who had never seen me dine, of a pulmonary appearance; those who had, candidly acknowledged, that if there was a consumption visible, it was in the dinner, and not in the diner' (401). As a young man in love he strives at a dinner not to reveal his appetite to 'the sentimental Amelia'. Before the evening is over he finds that his 'abstinence had most remarkably Macadamized McAdam, John Loudon (1756–1836) ODNB
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Genre:

Extract, Travelogue

Publications extracted:

Brooke 1826 Brooke, Arthur de Capell 1826. Winter Sketches in Lapland; or, Illustrations of a Journey from Alten on the Shores of the Polar Sea in 69°55" North Lat. Through Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish Lapland, to Torneå at the Extremity of the Gulf of Bothnia: Intended to Exhibit a Complete View of the Mode of Travelling with Rein Deer, the Most Striking Incidents that Occured During the Journey, and the General Character of the Winter Scenery of Lapland, London: John Murray
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Subjects:

Natural History, Hunting, Animal Behaviour, Commerce

People mentioned:

John Colquhoun, Colquhoun, John (1805–85) ODNB
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Genre:

Extract, Miscellaneous, Drollery

Publications extracted:

New Monthly Magazine New Monthly Magazine (1814–81) New Monthly (1882–84) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Agriculture, Commerce, Experiment, Horticulture, Pollution, Natural History, Nomenclature, Taxonomy, Botany, Sex, Race, Lecturing, Matter Theory, Exploration

    The narrator disputes the supposed pleasures of country living, and is scathing about 'Gentleman-farming' as being either sordid if practiced for gain, or a waste of the land if not. 'The notion of gentlemen's agriculture being beneficial to the community in the way of experiment, is altogether a sham plea. The real farmer, who lives by his labour, alone makes useful experiments, because he alone undertakes them at a heavy personal risk'. The narrator is less scathing of gardening, but observes that 'the florist may have [...] a hundred times more pleasure in London, than can be obtained in the country' since the plants of 'every clime are there laid at his feet, collected within the small space of a nursery ground'. (416) Observes that, since it is more difficult to grow plants in the 'smoke of London', the associated excitement is greater. As 'generally pursued', natural history is 'a most pompous inanity; a substitution of sounds of ideas, of nomenclature for knowledge'. 'With the exception of a very few men of real science, almost uniformly inhabiting great cities, your observers of the loves of the cockchafers, the Paul Prys into the mysteries of the cryptogameic hymen, are for the most part the heaviest mortals that breathe'. Observes of the parochialism of country gentlemen that a stranger in their company 'is as completely thrown out of all conversation or understanding, as a New Zealander at a lecture on the atomic theory'. (417)

Genre:

Essay, Extract

Publications extracted:

Hathaway 1827 Hathaway, T. 1827. Essays on the Following Subjects; Pleasures of Literature. Leisure, Education, etc., Bishops Stortford: [n. pub.?]
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Subjects:

Associationism, Education, Reading, Scientific Practitioners, Astronomy, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy

People mentioned:

Dugald Stewart, Stewart, Dugald (1753–1828) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Isaac Newton Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727) DSB
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Genre:

Extract, Anecdote, Drollery

Publications extracted:

New Monthly Magazine New Monthly Magazine (1814–81) New Monthly (1882–84) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Sound, Anatomy, Nomenclature

    'DR. JOHNSON, when a lady who travelled with him in a carriage, remarked that she could not hear him in consequence of the noise, is said to have answered, "Madam, the stripetuosity of circumrotary motion renders the modulations of ordinary discourse inaudible; and the cartilaginous materials which compose our auricular members become stultified to the exercise of their natural functions!"'.

Genre:

Anecdote

Subjects:

Zoology

People mentioned:

Louis C de S de Freycinet Freycinet, Louis Claude de Saulces de (1779–1842) WBI
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Genre:

Recollections

Subjects:

Superstition, Piety, Meteorology, Prognostication, Light, Electromagnetism

Genre:

Anecdote

Subjects:

Nutrition, Agriculture, Nationalism

Genre:

Anecdote, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Commerce

    'COLMAN Colman, George, the younger (1762–1836) ODNB
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Genre:

Anecdote

Subjects:

Scientific Practitioners

    '"I HAVE lived," said Dr. E. D. Clarke, "to know that the great secret of human happiness is this: never suffer your energies to stagnate.—The old adage of 'too many irons in the fire,' conveys an abominable lie. You cannot have too many; poker, tongs, and all:—keep all going."'

Genre:

Anecdote, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners

    An anecdote concerning the dentist father of François J Talma Talma, François Joseph (1763–1826) CBD
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