Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Legal Astronomy

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Observations of a Naturalist

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

How to Make a Railway

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Stilton Cheese

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

The Moon's Age

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Sugar

A Great Curiosity

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Agricultural

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Instinct in Animals

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Palpitations

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

A Substitute for Bread

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Discovery

    Congratulates the 'scientific world' for discovering 'a new constellation' christened Jonathan after the state of Texas. Compares the constellation to Sagittarius owing to its skill in archery.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Hunting, Morality, Crime

    Discusses the case of a cowherd who suffered a heavy fine for apparently shooting a lark merely for the purpose of discharging his gun. Proceeds to attack the injustice of game laws and in particular, George C G F Berkeley Berkeley, George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge (1800–81) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, a statesman with notorious interests in hunting.

Genre:

Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Nutrition, Health

    Announces the launch of 'Dr. Buckland's Head'—an 'eating house' run on a 'novel, economic, and scientific principle', specifically William Buckland's Buckland, William (1784–1856) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> notorious belief in the nutritional value of 'starch, peas, and mangel wurzel'. Dishes include 'Mouchoir de Poche a la Totbury', a 'delicious entree of fricasseed pocket-handkerchiefs', and 'Split Peas au Naturel'.

Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Commerce

    Reports that an incomplete telegraphic message, 'Abd-el-Kader has been taken' caused 'funds' to rise, but the rest of the message—'with a dreadful cold in his head'—caused funds to fall. Adds that the 'coup had been sufficiently successful'; however, the telegraph's inventors played 'into the hands of their agents at the Bourse'.

Genre:

Regular Feature, Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Education, Nomenclature

    Defines 'Doctor' as somebody 'who has taken the high degree in any of the learned professions, but it is not necessary that he should be in the highest degrees fit for the rank assumed'. Adds that although doctor literally means 'able to teach', they are not necessarily 'efficiently taught'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Discovery

    Following news of the discovery of a planet 'Astrea', hopes that astronomers name the next 'luminary' after Punch.

Genre:

Drama, Drollery; Illustration, Caricature

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Quackery, Medical Treatment, Patronage

    Includes a scene 'chiefly designed for recommending HOLLOWAY'S Holloway, Thomas (1800–83) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> pills' and includes a 'Chorus of Good Spirits' who sing the pill's praises, and 'an Irish Earl' (a reference to Mason G Straftord (5th Earl of Aldborough) Stratford, Mason Gerard, 5th Earl of Aldborough (1784–1849) Cokayne 1910-59
Close   View the register entry >>), who is convinced by the message in a box of the pills, claiming that 'Whoever would be free from earthly ills, / Will take, each night and morn, six of these pills'. The illustration shows Stratford dancing on stage, whilst advertising Holloway's pills.

Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Amusement, Instruments, Invention, Magic, Charlatanry, Politics, Government, Machinery

    Compares the Prime Minister Robert Peel Peel, Sir Robert, 2nd Baronet (1788–1850) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, a 'great political chess-player' whose political moves are 'suggested entirely by others', to the automaton chess-player, 'one of the wonders of mechanism' whose moves are controlled entirely by M Mouret Mouret, M (fl. 1846) PU1/10/7/2
Close   View the register entry >>, a celebrated chess-player.

Genre:

Illustration, Caricature

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Subjects:

Amusement, Instruments, Invention, Charlatanry, Politics

    Continuing from Anon, 'The Political Automaton Chess-Player', Punch, 10 (1846), 66, depicts the Prime Minister Robert Peel Peel, Sir Robert, 2nd Baronet (1788–1850) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> as the 'automaton chess-player' playing a game of political chess with contemporary political figures as chess pieces. Richard Cobden Cobden, Richard (1804–65) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> is shown controlling Peel from the box under the chess-board.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery; Reportage, Spoof

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Railways, Engineering, Commerce

    Describes the 'bursting of the Great Railway Bubble' as if it were an exploding locomotive, punning on those words common to railway engineering and commerce. Explains, for example, that 'a total exhaustion of the receiver, which created a fearful vacuum, was the immediate cause of the frightful calamity', and that although some railway lines 'felt themselves secure' in being placed on solid 'primary deposit', 'it was found that this deposit had been gradually eaten away by some birds of prey with long bills, so that these lines have since been involved in the common ruin'.

Genre:

Editorial, Drollery

Subjects:

Evolution, Cosmology, Politics, Agriculture

    Exploiting the title and cosmology of Chambers 1844 [Chambers, Robert] 1844. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, London: John Churchill
Close   View the register entry >>, argues that 'Protection originated [...] in an intellectual fog of singular density', whose 'vestiges are apparent in the imperfect state of Agriculture' and the 'crippled and shackled condition of Commerce'. Holds that the vestiges are also evident in the 'ducal skull' which shares 'thickness' with protection.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Subjects:

Phrenology, Politics, Government

    Noting that the phrenologist James Deville Deville, James (1777–1846) DNBS
Close   View the register entry >> 'makes casts of the heads' of people at different periods of their lives and of different 'circumstances of mental and moral culture', the author thinks that politicians' heads should be 'taken regularly every five or seven years'. Believes this would allow Charles A W Anderson-Pelham (Lord Worsley) Anderson-Pelham, Charles Anderson Worsley (2nd Earl of Yarborough and 3rd Baron Worsley) (1809–62) Cokayne 1910-59
Close   View the register entry >> to see how the minds of the Prime Minister, Robert Peel Peel, Sir Robert, 2nd Baronet (1788–1850) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> and his Home Secretary, James R G Graham Graham, Sir James Robert George, 2nd Baronet (1792–1861) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, have changed owing to free trade. The illustration depicts a foppish-looking phrenological bust smoking a pipe.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery; News-Commentary, Spoof

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Subjects:

Military Technology, War, Government

    Suggests an apparatus by which one gunner can 'sponge out' several guns at the same time, an apparatus that has allegedly been sent to the Board of Ordnance Board of Ordnance
Close   View the register entry >>. The illustration shows that the apparatus resembles a gigantic garden fork.

Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Geology, Ancient Authorities, Charlatanry, Prognostication

    Reports that a series of 'loud reports' were ascribed to John Dee's Dee, John (1527–1608) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> 'earthquake', an event 'payable some time back, according to the bill drawn by Dee on public credulity'.

Genre:

Reportage, Satire

Subjects:

Mental Illness, Animal Behaviour, Hunting, Class, Politics, Government

    Reports that the decision of William B Baring (2nd Baron Ashburton) Baring, William Bingham, 2nd Baron Ashburton (1799–1864) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> to take hares out of the game class has caused an unusual prevalence of madness among the species. Identifies hares with aristocrats insofar as both have enjoyed the privileges of legal protection. Reports that the 'lunatic hares' foresee the abolition of protection for partridges and other animals hunted by the aristocracy—moves which the hares believe will destroy the aristocracy, the established church, and the monarchy. Concludes by noting that hares are trying to rally support from 'all other descriptions of game' to 'invoke the British Lion'.

Genre:

Editorial, Drollery; Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Quackery

    Presents letters from individuals testifying to the value of various medicines. Most individuals praise the effect of the medicine on non-medical problems: J Bugden, for example, claims that Thomas Holloway's Holloway, Thomas (1800–83) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> ointment stopped one of his cart wheels from creaking, while John Sharpshoes applauds the power of Morison's Morison, James (1770–1840) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> pills to kill slugs and other vermin.

Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Horticulture, Agriculture, Experiment

    Attempts to interest the Horticultural Society Royal Horticultural Society
Close   View the register entry >> in various experiments to grow vegetation in the 'arid district' of Golden Square. The unidentified experimenter's efforts include throwing sawdust on the grass, in order to make the trees look greener, and constructing artificial trees from wood and evergreen paint.

Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Meteorology, Magnetism, Measurement

    Reports on a Glasgow Herald Glasgow Herald (1805–1900+) BUCOP
Close   View the register entry >> article describing the experiences of John P Nichol Nichol, John Pringle (1804–59) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>. The 'local Herschel Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792–1871) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> for Scotland' failed to understand how, during a recent hurricane, scientific instruments and 'the magnetic house' were carried about by the wind, but there was 'no commotion in the atmosphere'. Thinks Nichol's attribution of the phenomena to a 'storm of translation' is a 'comfortable way of consoling one's self for having one's house blown about one's ears'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Politics, Discovery

    Holds that the cavity recently discovered by astronomers in the middle of the sun is a 'mouth', and indicates the sun's boredom with the long Corn Law debate.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Universities, Education

    Notes that the focus on 'classical and mathematical' studies at the University of Oxford University of Oxford
Close   View the register entry >> and the University of Cambridge University of Cambridge
Close   View the register entry >> has been criticized as 'musty, fusty, rusty, monastic, and obsolete'. Laments the fact that Cambridge does not teach pugilism—the 'most' natural of all 'sciences' and one that most students practice. Notes the absence of such positions as a 'Master of the noble Art of Self-defence' and of a prize-ring as a 'circle of collegiate science'. Announces the foundation of various professorships and degrees in pugilism.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Electricity, Display, Politics, Government

    Likens the performance of the Prime Minister Robert Peel Peel, Sir Robert, 2nd Baronet (1788–1850) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> to Angelique Cottin Cottin, Angelique (fl. 1846) PU1/10/13/2
Close   View the register entry >>, a Frenchwoman capable of repelling 'Chairs and tables' once charged with electricity. Proposes four experiments to prove Peel's 'infinitely greater powers of attraction and repulsion', the latter qualities referring to the movements of the politicians with whom Peel engages. In the first experiment, for example, Peel was 'very heavily charged during the late debate' and succeeded in 'throwing one half of the Conservative members, quite to the opposite side of the house', while in the second experiment, he was charged and 'found to possess the power of attracting members of the Agricultural League Agricultural League
Close   View the register entry >>'. A 'gentleman of great scientific acquirements' assures Punch that Peel is 'quite as powerful as an electric eel'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy

    Suggests that the public should be cautious about the plethora of intelligence regarding new comets, since it is easy to convince them that a 'flash of lightning' or an 'eccentric piece of luminous matter', especially when wrapped in 'descriptive jargon', is a comet. Advises that alleged comets be examined by 'a committee of qualified astronomers', in order to avoid such cases as a light in the Vauxhall Gardens Royal Gardens, Vauxhall
Close   View the register entry >> being mistaken for a new star.

Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Subjects:

Military Technology, Steamships

    Describes a new military apparatus enabling the French to 'snuff out British vessels' and their crews. Text and illustration reveal three versions of the apparatus, each one resembling a giant candle snuff hinged on the bow of a steamship.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Discovery, Observation

    Claims that 'Bela' (a reference to the comet discovered by Wilhelm von Biela Biela, Wilhelm von (1782–1856) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>), though 'palmed off upon the scientific public as a bran new comet', is actually 'one of our old celestial acquaintances'. Accordingly, will be more suspicious about announcements of 'new' comets and recommends that James South South, James (1785–1867) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> and other astronomers learn to distinguish tails 'floating about' in their heads from real comets.

Genre:

News-Digest, Spoof

Subjects:

Palaeontology, Extinction, Politics

    Reports on the discovery of 'the head of that nearly extinct species, the Roebuck'. This news will relieve the statesman John A Roebuck Roebuck, John Arthur (1802–79) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, who has 'long since lost his head'.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery; News-Commentary, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Subjects:

Public Health, Gas Chemistry, Politics, Government, Controversy, Charlatanry

    Following controversy surrounding David B Reid's Reid, David Boswell (1805–63) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> ventilation system, announces that Punch has launched an inquiry into the benefits of the system 'for brewing draughts of different kinds of atmosphere'. Announces that Reid can produce air smelling of carbon and oxygen, and that he will be selling various breezes, including a 'genuine BOREAS' and 'Breezy Cotswold', and food in the Houses of Parliament Houses of Parliament
Close   View the register entry >>. Expects his air will 'supersede wine at the dinner table'. Concludes with a poem praising Reid's invention. The illustration shows a bar selling such airs as 'Fine Old Arctic' and 'Zephyr' to various political characters including, inevitably, Henry P Brougham (1st Baron Brougham and Vaux) Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery; Essay, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Subjects:

Railways, Instruments, Commerce, Engineers

    The illustration shows a pawnbroker asking a customer how much he wants for his theodolite. The text argues that the alarming 'state of the public pocket' can be gauged by the fact that a 'celebrated engineer', formerly earning twenty guineas a day for laying railroads, is forced to 'cut off with his scientific apparatus to the pawnbrokers'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Public Health, Heat, Engineering, Government, Charlatanry

    Speculates on the destination of several cargoes of ice imported into Britain. Suggests they may be used by David B Reid Reid, David Boswell (1805–63) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> in his attempt to cool the atmosphere in the Houses of Parliament Houses of Parliament
Close   View the register entry >> or, alternatively, in workhouses, owing to Reid's claim that freezing bodies 'feel a total prostration of the appetite'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Electricity, Education, Natural History

    Believes that the laying of the Dover-Calais submarine telegraph will result in a number of striking aquatic phenomena including 'galvanic soles', 'an immense assortment of shocking herrings', and sharks eating through cables during 'Royal' transmissions. Stresses that the invention will allow French masters to teach their subject to English schools.

Genre:

Editorial, Drollery

Subjects:

Photography, Invention, Politics, Government

    Argues that photography should be used to give 'something like permanency to political appearances', which tend to change so frequently. Notes that the 'portraits are often not very flattering to the subjects, for the shadows are strongly marked', and that a photograph of the Prime Minister Robert Peel Peel, Sir Robert, 2nd Baronet (1788–1850) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> would reveal the change in his political 'character'.

Genre:

Advertisement, Spoof

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Education

    Seeks a situation as a 'Visiting and Dispensing Assistant', claiming that his disagreement with the Courts of Examiners Courts of Examiners
Close   View the register entry >> impeded his medical education. Boasts 'considerable experience of Night Work' [a reference to medical practitioners' dissolute nocturnal behaviour] and can 'give references to several respectable publicans'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Subjects:

Public Health, Engineering, Government

    Speculates on the details of David B Reid's Reid, David Boswell (1805–63) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> proposal to blow air of varying temperatures into the Houses of Parliament Houses of Parliament
Close   View the register entry >>. Suggests that he will hang 'a series of bellows in the roof of the building' which, by pulling on a rope, can blow air at a desired temperature and in the required quantity. Accuses Reid of 'self-conceit' and considers his plan to be wanting an 'air of practicability'. The illustration shows Punch's idea of the inside of Reid's invention. It comprises seven bellows, producing blasts of air at temperatures from 'Freezing' to 'Very Hot', connected to the 'House'.

Genre:

Diary, Spoof

Subjects:

Railways, Engineering, Transport, Controversy

    Considers it his 'dewty' to 'come forwoods, and igspress' his 'opinion upon that nashnal newsance—THE BREAK OF GAGE'. Describes the 'inconvenience' and mishaps caused by the fact that he and his family were forced to change railway carriages (presumably owing to a change of railway gauge) twice on a journey to the West of England.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Subjects:

Railways, Transport, Progress, Heroism

    Depicts a statue of Mr Punch as an engine driver sitting on a railway locomotive. Text explains that 'to keep pace with the times' there must be 'equestrian statues with locomotives instead of horses', which will become 'obsolete and ridiculous'.

Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Public Health, Invention, Engineering, Controversy, Government

    Reports on the consequences of the 'dreadful gale' in the House of Commons House of Commons
Close   View the register entry >> caused by David B Reid's Reid, David Boswell (1805–63) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> ventilation machine.

Genre:

Editorial, Drollery

Subjects:

Photography, Light, Physiognomy

    Contrary to its last article on this subject (Anon, 'Political Photography', Punch, 10 (1846), 209), reports that Mr Beard Beard, Mr (fl. 1846) PU1/10/22/1
Close   View the register entry >> has produced a photographic portrait that does not emphasize the lines on the face and renders the sun's 'fiercest rays as "mild as the moon-beams"'.

Genre:

Essay, Satire

Subjects:

Natural History, Ornithology, Animal Behaviour, Politics, Nationalism, Race

People mentioned:

Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus (or von Linné), Carl (1707–78) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Georges L Leclerc, comte de Buffon Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de (1707–88) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>

    An attack on American policies couched in terms of a detailed description of the ruthless habits of the American eagle. Notes that the bird 'preys chiefly on the Oregon racoon [an allusion to British and American conflict over that state], the Texas opossum, and the green snake of California'. Adds that the bird is fatal to 'the large species of goose called Creditor', is 'partial to the flesh of negroes', has an 'antipathy' towards 'that noble animal, the British Lion', and has formed an alliance with that 'more valuable bird', 'the Gallic Cock'. Claims that 'many eminent naturalists' believe that the species is 'becoming deteriorated' and while the stars on its wing will diminish, 'the stripes' on its back will increase.

Genre:

Song, Drollery

Subjects:

Geology, Education

    The article is subtitled 'Intended for the use of Cambridge University of Cambridge
Close   View the register entry >> Professors'. Its author regards geology as 'a noble thing / To teach in Alma Mater', and believes that it will 'teach the student made of clay, / Cognoscere se ipsum'. Adds that 'there's nought so good as stone / To form the road to knowledge' and promises students that 'in my next I'll take a view / Of William Buckland's Buckland, William (1784–1856) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Megatherium'.

Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct. [2]

Illustrators:

N, pseud.  [William Newman] Newman, William (fl. 1842) Spielmann 1895
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
Close   View the register entry >>

Subjects:

Railways, Transport, Commerce

    Suggests that the large number of 'defunct Railway shares' should be buried in a 'large scale' cemetery for 'the late much-lamented Railways', a place that it expects to be visited by 'sincere mourners', including 'attorneys, engineers, scrip-holders, and provisional committee-men'. Suggests that lawyers 'might write eulogistic inscriptions in a truly parental style of affectionate regret'. The illustrations show a tombstone in the shape of a small upturned steam locomotive, and another in the form of the front of a steam locomotive. The latter features one of the 'sincere mourners' to which the text refers.

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Mathematics, Gender, Education

    Describing himself as 'Mathematician' who has the 'misfortune to be married', the narrator details the complex algebraical argument to convince his wife that he could not afford to take her to Brighton and buy her a shawl. Notes that he lost his argument and asks Mr Punch if he would 'exert his influence to cause ladies to be instructed in Mathematics'.

Genre:

Announcement, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct. [2]

Subjects:

Railways, Invention, Engineering, Transport

    Describes and illustrates two new locomotive designs: one, shaped like its name, 'the Tortoise', is designed for the 'luggage and parliamentary trains' and to keep the poor on the road 'as many hours as possible'; the other locomotive, 'the Clown', is capable of 'skipping and leaping, which is found to exist, without the slightest cause, on various railways'.

Genre:

Illustration, Caricature; News-Commentary, Drollery; Poetry, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

J L, pseud.  [John Leech] Leech, John (1817–64) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
Close   View the register entry >>

Subjects:

Public Health, Heat, Engineering, Controversy, Government, Politics, Charlatanry

    Illustration depicts the statesman Henry P Brougham (1st Baron Brougham and Vaux) Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> sitting inside an 'exhausted receiver' (a giant upturned wine glass). Text reports Brougham's objections to being trapped inside the House of Commons House of Commons
Close   View the register entry >> for the purposes of David B Reid's Reid, David Boswell (1805–63) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> 'ventilating experiments'. Celebrates Brougham's 'rencontre' with Reid with a poem that describes Brougham's feelings of suffocation and shivering resulting from Reid's ventilation system. Brougham complains that he 'call'd for warmer air, / But the pipes [of the ventilation system] never cock'd' and that Reid was the 'cause / Of this humbug'. Concludes by wondering whether Brougham must 'die shut in / An exhausted receiver?'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Animal Behaviour, Hunting

    Responds to news that Canadian alligators are to be 'killed for their oils'. Compares alligators to the pheasants of 'Merrie England' and suggests that alligators should be fattened on 'live Indians'. Anticipates the establishment of alligator preserves and the creation of protection laws.

Genre:

Essay, Drollery; Advertisement, Spoof

Subjects:

Quackery, Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Class, Status, Patronage

    Wonders why people are so surprised at aristocratic patronage of quackery. Notes that Mason G Statford (5th Earl of Aldborough) Stratford, Mason Gerard, 5th Earl of Aldborough (1784–1849) Cokayne 1910-59
Close   View the register entry >> spends most of his time 'taking pills, and writing puffs about them for the newspapers'. Suggests an advertisement from a 'Proprietor of a New Pill' wanting to improve his business. The advertisement requests the participation of several types of aristocrat including 'an Earl who is willing to be cured of every disease', 'a Gouty Marquis', and a 'consumptive Countess'. Adds that Irish earls will not be treated and invites barristers to try his 'new Voice Lozenges'.

Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Anthropomorphism

    Following a spell of hot weather, reports that the sun 'had a glorious time of it', by 'melting a large quantity of butter, making a lot of hay', and performing many 'useful' and 'fantastical' feats. Adds that the sun, however, managed to go 'quietly off to bed at his usual hour'.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery; News-Commentary, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

N, pseud.  [William Newman] Newman, William (fl. 1842) Spielmann 1895
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
Close   View the register entry >>

Subjects:

Menageries, Zoological Gardens

    Reports on the tendency of 'Foreign Powers' to send wild and exotic beasts to Queen Victoria Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India (1819–1901) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, who forwarded them to William Tyler Tyler, William (1799–1864) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> at the Surrey Zoological Gardens Surrey Literary, Scientific and Zoological Institution—Gardens
Close   View the register entry >>. Notes that the latter institution is now full up and suggests that Victoria houses the animals in a menagerie and 'wild beast ground' at Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace
Close   View the register entry >>. The illustration depicts several animals, including a giant serpent, birds of prey, and giraffes, in an imaginary menagerie at the palace.