Genre:

Notes

Subjects:

Scientific Practitioners, Natural History, Botany, Electricity, Astronomy, Philosophy, Architecture, Mathematics, Chemistry, Religion, Statistics, Zoology, Physiology, Medical Practitioners, Light, Engineering, Invention, Manufactories, Steam-power

People mentioned:

Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus (or von Linné), Carl (1707–78) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Benjamin Franklin, Franklin, Benjamin (1706–90) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Luigi Galvani, Galvani, Luigi (1737–98) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Nicholas Copernicus, Copernicus, Nicholas (1473–1543) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> David Hume, Hume, David (1711–76) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Christopher Wren, Wren, Sir Christopher (1632–1723) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Joseph Priestley, Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804) 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 >> John Graunt, Graunt, John (1620–74) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Georges Cuvier, Cuvier, Georges (1769–1832) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Roger Bacon, Bacon, Roger (c. 1219–c. 1292) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Matthew Boulton, Boulton, Matthew (1728–1809) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> James Watt, Watt, James (1736–1819) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Auguste Comte, Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier (Auguste) (1798–1857) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Dominique F J Arago, Arago, Dominique François Jean (1786–1853) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> James Cook, Cook, James (1728–79) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Gottfried W Leibniz, Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Tycho Brahe Brahe, Tycho (1546–1601) DSB
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Genre:

Diary, Spoof

Subjects:

Agriculture, Animal Husbandry

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Zoological Gardens, Zoology

Institutions mentioned:

Zoological Society—Gardens Zoological Society of London —Gardens
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Genre:

Catechism, Spoof

Subjects:

Education, Mathematics, Physical Geography, Political Economy

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Aeronautics

    'Aëronauts'.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery; Poetry, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

D M Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834–96) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Human Development, Animal Development, Zoology

    The illustration represents the scene depicted in the poem. It shows a brook in a wooded area through which fly the heads of young men and women, powered by butterfly wings attached to the sides of the heads.

Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Biology, Animal Magnetism, Electricity, Physiology, Comparative Philology, Narcotics, Pathology, Psychology, Disciplinarity, Language

    Comprises a list of parodies on scientific and medical disciplines. For example, defines 'Buyology' as 'How to get great bargins at sales', and 'Pathology' as 'How to find your way where the roads meet'.

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Biology, Physical Geography, Discovery, Commerce, Vaccination

People mentioned:

Isaac Newton Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727) DSB
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Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

D M Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834–96) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Evolution, Human Development, Darwinism, Gender

    Shows a long procession of male and female ancestors of Mr Punch. The figures are dressed in the costumes of their period, from 1066 to 1868. All the male ancestors are drawn with hooked noses to indicate the long ancestry of this prominent feature on Mr Punch's face.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

C K Keene, Charles Samuel (1823–91) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Astronomy, Instruments, Observation, Scientific Practitioners, Gender

    Shows a frosty night scene at the back of a house. In the middle of a snow-covered lawn, the bald-headed Professor Parallax kneels on the grass to look through his telescope at the star Capella, which is high in the night sky. The Professor urges the corpulent Mrs Spudgrove to stoop down and observe the star, but as the caption explains, she has already seen several other heavenly objects and has 'almost had enough of it'.

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Meteorology, Comparative Philology, Superstition

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

J T Tenniel, Sir John (1820–1914) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Zoological Gardens, Amusement

    Shows Captain Bettington Binks riding a young elephant past a crowd of onlookers at the Zoological Society Gardens.

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Heat, Instruments

Genre:

Instructions, Spoof

Subjects:

Agriculture, Animal Husbandry

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Zoological Gardens

Institutions mentioned:

Zoological Society—Gardens Zoological Society of London —Gardens
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Genre:

Address, Spoof

Subjects:

Zoology, Comparative Anatomy

    Lists various 'griefs' of the day including the death of the walrus (at the Zoological Society Gardens Zoological Society of London —Gardens
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Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Utilitarianism, Class, Human Development, Health, Disease, Pollution, Crime, Periodicals

    Lists various 'curiosities' shown at a recent 'Conversazione of the Poor Law Commissioners'. These ridicule poor law guardians, particularly those responsible for the notorious Farnham Poor Law Union Workhouse Farnham Poor Law Union—Workhouse
Close   View the register entry >>, for creating such woefully poor conditions in workhouses and workhouse infirmaries. For example, the exhibits include a 'Specimen of an infirmary blanket, warranted not to keep the cold out', 'A bottle of air taken from a workhouse bedroom. In proof of its impurity, a light being placed in it immediately goes out', and 'A few stalactites found in the "Stalactite cave of filth" referred to in the Lancet Lancet (1823–1900+) Waterloo Directory
Close   View the register entry >> Commissioners' Report' (a reference to the Lancet's investigation of the Farnham workhouse).

Genre:

Regular Feature, Poetry

Subjects:

Lecturing, Amusement

People mentioned:

John H Pepper Pepper, John Henry (1821–1900) ODNB
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Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Astronomy, Religious Authority, Religion, Astrology

    Corrects a claim made by Pope Pius IX Pius IX, Pope (1792–1878) CBD
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Genre:

Reminiscences, Drollery

Subjects:

Psychology, Education, Astronomy, Observation, Exploration, Instruments

People mentioned:

Dugald Stewart, Stewart, Dugald (1753–1828) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> William Paley Paley, William (1743–1805) DSB
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    Anticipates the events of 1868. The author regrets that the next solar eclipse will not be visible from Britain, noting that 'If the assiduous watchmen on the hill at Greenwich [the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Royal Observatory, Greenwich
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Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Invention, Machinery

    The first illustration shows a man having his hair brushed by a large brush rotated by a machine above the barber's shop. The other illustrations show the barber, believing that his machine requires oiling, finally discovering that its poor performance is due to the fact that the boy who turns the belt of the machine has fallen asleep.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Class, Education, Museums, Human Development, Nationalism, Cultural Geography, Government, Patronage, Amusement, Narcotics

    Begins by announcing that 'It is not all dark in East London' and proceeds to describe the attempt by Septimus C H Hansard Hansard, Septimus Cox Holmes (1823–95) WBI
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Close   View the register entry >>). Notes that the museum will 'be the means of enabling our workmen to compete on more equal terms than at present with the skilled workmen of foreign countries, especially in matters of taste', and describes the government's enthusiasm and progress towards building the museum. Points out that 'All that remains to be done [...] is to pay for the land' and invites readers to subscribe. (8) Explains that since the museum will have long opening hours it will be able 'to fight the gin-shop and the tap-room on fair terms' and anticipates that the flowers that will grow in the museum garden will be 'flowers of Hope', unlike those of 'sorrow and despair' which have usually graced Bethnal Green.

Genre:

Diary, Spoof, Serial

Subjects:

Pollution, Government, Mental Illness

Genre:

Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Societies, Lecturing, Geology

    Announces that the next Bakerian lecture at the Royal Society Royal Society of London
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Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Railways, Transport

    'Making a Railway'.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

E G Griset, Ernest Henry (1844–1907) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Photography, Astronomy, Animal Behaviour, Zoology

    Shows monkeys responding to the attempt by a man to paint, take photographs, play music, and look through a telescope in the wilderness. The illustrations headed 'Photography' and 'Astronomy' show monkeys clambering over the instruments and imitating the behaviour of the man.

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Nutrition, Animal Development, Animal Husbandry, Zoology, Spiritualism

    Written from the perspective of a donkey, the letter begins by noting that some people wonder where donkeys go when they die, and suggests that the ghosts of asses might be responsible for table-rapping. Argues that members of his species do not die but 'disappear' and asks that they be 'decently put out of sight'. Expresses a wish that donkeys should be disposed of in the same way as horses—by being 'stalled and fattened when past work', 'dispatched' by a butcher, and then eaten.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Utilitarianism, Health, Disease, Morality, Periodicals

    Responds to a testimonial supporting the guardians of the Farnham Poor Law Union Workhouse Farnham Poor Law Union—Workhouse
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Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Veterinary Science, Pharmaceuticals, Language, Medical Treatment

    Discusses a Pall Mall Gazette Pall Mall Gazette (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Chemistry, Military Technology, Organic Chemistry, Politics

    Containing a description of modern explosives, this poem begins by noting how in the days 'Before Chemistry has started' there was no louder or more damaging explosive than gunpowder. Proceeds to 'Modern chemic science' and details the new explosives including 'the fulminates / Of mercury, and silver', the highly unstable 'chloride of ammonium, / To be named with small encomium', nitroglycerine and gun-cotton, 'all sorts of matches, / To be fired by rubs and scratches', and the volatile hydrocarbons that 'blow all to shatters'. Concludes by considering the consequences of the Romans and Athenians being armed with such weapons.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Utilitarianism, Industry, Manufactories, Human Development, Disease, Health, Race

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

L S Sambourne, Edwin Linley (1844–1910) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Gender, Zoology, Amusement

    Shows a woman with a snake coiled on the back of her head, the shape of the snake resembling the latest fashion in chignons.

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Exploration, Physical Geography, Heat,

    Discusses a letter in The Times The Times (1777–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Utilitarianism, Morality, Nutrition, Health, Education, Class

    Begins by noting that with the passage of the Reform Bill, there have been calls for greater educational provisions for the poorer classes. Points out that the poor need to be fed before they can be educated and announces the formation of a new 'Humane Society' for 'providing weekly dinners for poor children', a society conducted by Anthony A Cooper (7th Earl of Shaftesbury) Cooper, Anthony Ashley, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (formerly styled 'Lord Ashley') (1801–85) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> which aims to improve the health and powers of children through provision of 'good solid dinners'.

Genre:

Diary, Spoof, Serial

Subjects:

Invention, Electricity, Music, Military Technology, Amusement

    Describes some of the inventions of his 'Portable Friend' including a camp stool whose legs contain revolvers and daggers, a galvanic attachment to a piano enabling the instrument to play tunes and light cigars and pipes during parties, and a 'galvanic portmanteau' which will 'mark the time, the distance, tell the day of the month, cook a dinner, be a bed carriage' and 'a boat'.

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment

    'Drawing the Stumps at "Lord's"'.

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Nutrition, Zoology, Psychology

    'Night Mare'.

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Politics, Medical Treatment, Homeopathy, Controversy

Institutions mentioned:

Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Physicians
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Genre:

Diary, Spoof, Serial

Subjects:

Invention, Technology, Domestic Economy

    Describes more inventions of his 'Portable Friend' including a travelling-cap that can be turned into a portable bath, a waterproof coat, a boat, a hot-water bottle, and a sponge-bath. In a discussion, the narrator's friend works out how to turn his invention into a house on wheels.

Genre:

Regular Feature, Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Natural History, Ornithology, Language

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Periodicals

    Defines 'Periodical Meteors' as 'Magazines that make a flash for a time or two, and then suddenly disappear'.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Engineering, Environmentalism, Cultural Geography

    Begins by comparing the smoothness of Parisian streets (accomplished with steam-rollers) to the roughness of England's thoroughfares, but relishes news that the City of London Commissioners of Sewers City of London Commissioners of Sewers
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Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Geology

    'The Earth'.

Genre:

Regular Feature, Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Exploration, Zoology, Animal Behaviour

    Reports that travellers in America have recorded that, after watching the 'wonderful agility of the opossum in its native forests, they could but exclaim, in conscious inferiority—Non opossumus', a reference is to the Latin plea 'non possumus' (i.e. 'we cannot').

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Mathematics, Politics

    'Find the centres of the Fenian Circles'.

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Exploration, Imperialism, Zoology, Zoological Gardens

People mentioned:

James Cook, Cook, James (1728–79) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> Joseph Banks Banks, Sir Joseph (1743–1820) DSB ODNB
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Institutions mentioned:

Zoological Society—Gardens Zoological Society of London —Gardens
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Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Patronage, Heroism, Telegraphy, Invention

    Recalls the theological argument 'that the proof of the small value which Providence sets upon Wealth is shown by the sort of persons who get the most of it'. Supposes that 'the same rule applies to Honours', noting the number of unworthy peers, while Charles Wheatstone Wheatstone, Charles (1802–75) DSB
Close   View the register entry >>, 'who invented the Electric Telegraph and the Stereoscope', is only to be knighted, and that 'after thirty years'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Travel

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Education, Experiment, Mathematics

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

F E Eltze, Fritz (fl. 1868) Spielmann 1895
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Natural History, Zoology, Disease, Human Development, Scientific Practitioners

    Shows a young girl standing before her father, a 'Naturalistic Papa', in his study. The girl tells her father that 'George' (presumably her brother) has caught a worm—a 'ring worm'.

Genre:

Introduction, Drollery; Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Class, Agriculture, Invention

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Crime, Class, Health, Nutrition

    Discusses a report of the death of a pauper in Holloway Prison Holloway Prison
Close   View the register entry >>, one of fifty-one paupers who have been imprisoned for begging. The alderman who sent them to prison subsequently treated his charges to hard labour and a diet of 'dry bread and gruel'. Presents an extract from the report which reveals that the prisoners were genuine beggars suffering from starvation and physical exhaustion. Notes that following the inquest into the death of one of the prisoners, the coroner's jury advised that the prisoners' diets should be changed. Concludes by bitterly condemning the alderman for his barbarous act.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Periodicals, Controversy, Observation

    Responds to a Spiritual Magazine Spiritual Magazine (1860–77) Waterloo Directory
Close   View the register entry >> attack on Punch's Punch (1841–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Politics, Reasoning, Quackery, Medical Treatment

People mentioned:

James Morison, Morison, James (1770–1840) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Thomas Holloway Holloway, Thomas (1800–83) ODNB
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Genre:

Song, Drollery

Subjects:

Zoology, Zoological Gardens, Military Technology, War, Politics

    Describes the armadillo to be seen at the Zoological Society Gardens Zoological Society of London —Gardens
Close   View the register entry >>. Draws attention to the strong coat of armour which covers the species and considers 'how well it would be, / Were all of our neighbours armed only like thee'. Describes the precarious political situation in Europe, wishing that its countries would 'leave one another alone', in which case they would not need as strong a 'safeguard' as the armadillo's. Notes that 'France will arm to the teeth, not with rivals to cope, / But to fight, if required, for the crown of the POPE Pius IX, Pope (1792–1878) CBD
Close   View the register entry >>', but that if France were to disarm, its example would prompt other European countries to follow suit.

Genre:

Essay

Subjects:

Hunting, Morality

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Railways, Transport, Language, Education

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Domestic Economy, Health, Periodicals

    Discusses a recent controversy in the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (1852–90) Waterloo Directory
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Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

C K Keene, Charles Samuel (1823–91) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Education, Mathematics, Nutrition, Human Development

    Shows a father attempting to teach his son 'Harry' geometry using a cake. He tells his son that the circumference of the cake is roughly equal to three times the diameter and is then interrupted by his son begging to have the 'c'cumf'rence for my share!!'.

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Nutrition, Zoology, Language

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Nutrition, Zoology, Language

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Photography, Commerce, Government

    Mr Punch presents Benjamin Disraeli Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–81) ODNB
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Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Nutrition, Zoology, Language

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Prognostication, Eschatology, Religion, Religious Authority, Astrology

People mentioned:

Richard J Morrison, Morrison, Richard James ('Zadkiel') (1795–1874) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Robert C Smith Smith, Robert Cross ('Raphael') (1795–1832) ODNB
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    Calls on John Cumming Cumming, John (1807–81) ODNB
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Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Nutrition, Zoology, Language

Genre:

Illustration, Caricature

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

J T Tenniel, Sir John (1820–1914) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Politics, Education

    Shows a general practitioner's waiting room in which are several statesmen and allegorical figures associated with the key political issues of the day. Standing near the door to Dr Bull's surgery, and dressed as a footman, is Benjamin Disraeli Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–81) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>. In the foreground stands Erin, representing Ireland, while around her are John Bright Bright, John (1811–89) ODNB
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Close   View the register entry >> or William E Forster Forster, William Edward (1818–86) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>). In the back of the room sits an old and miserly-looking John Russell (1st Earl Russell) Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) ODNB
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Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Vulcanology, Geology

    Discusses a report in a 'Neapolitan newspaper' describing the apparent refusal of Mount Vesuvius to die out.

Genre:

Song, Drollery

Subjects:

Nutrition, Zoology, Language

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Disease, Politics, Pharmaceuticals, Narcotics

    Describes solutions to the problems of Ireland as if the country were a patient. Notes that the 'doctors' differ over 'the case of Ireland', while 'empirics' propose to administer 'tonics, stimulants, and alteratives'. Believes solutions to the Irish problems may be presented in the style of patent medicines (for example, 'Try the Endowment of Irish Roman Catholic Priests in grants and glebes taken from the Established Church'), but concludes that the only panacea likely to prove effective is tobacco.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Museums, Amusement

Institutions mentioned:

South Kensington Museum South Kensington Museum
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Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Time, Invention, Religion, Politics, Government

    Discusses the advantages of using a 'sixteen minute' gauge to limit sermons in churches and speeches in the Houses of Parliament.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Observation, Instruments, Ornithology, Animal Behaviour

    Depicts the adventures of a missionary who is directed by his bishop to the 'plains of Timbuctoo'. His recitation of 'his nones' attracts the attention of a savage cassowary which is subsequently attacked by vultures (80).

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Political Economy, Universities, Religion, Religious Authority

    Describes James E T Rogers's Rogers, James Edwin Thorold (1823–90) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> failed attempt to secure for himself the chair of political economy at the University of Oxford University of Oxford
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Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Gender, Periodicals, Education

    Responds to a Lady's Own Paper Lady's Own Paper (1866–72) Waterloo Directory
Close   View the register entry >> article on Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (née Garrett), Elizabeth (1836–1917) ODNB
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Close   View the register entry >>. Concludes by asking Mr Punch to 'blow up the Council which presides over medical education' and to open the 'healing profession' to qualified women.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Adulteration, Crime

    Discusses a recent address given to the Social Science Association National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
Close   View the register entry >> by Henry Letheby Letheby, Henry (1816–76) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>. Notes Letheby's evidence for food adulteration and his description of the way that 'in the olden times' traders convicted of adulterating their articles were forced to expose their shady practices in public, were placed in the pillory, and then had their trading license revoked. Concludes by regretting that this practice has been stopped.

Genre:

Essay

Subjects:

Sanitation, Public Health, Health, Disease, Government, Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Patronage, Hospitals, Politics, Industry, Manufactories, Pollution

    Begins by reminding readers of the criticism aimed at Mr Punch for his views on the manufacturing districts in the Black Country (see Anon, 'The Queen in the Black Country', Punch, 51 (1866), 238, , Anon, 'The Black Country. Is it as Black as Mr. Punch has Painted it?', Punch, 51 (1866), 240–41, , Anon, 'The Black Country, Not all Black', Punch, 51 (1866), 262 and , Anon, 'White Upon Black', Punch, 52 (1867), 17) and in New Zealand. Urging readers to 'fly' to the 'pure air and primitive simplicity of the country', introduces and presents extensive extracts from a damning report, by Dr Thorne Thorne, Dr (fl. 1868) PU1/54/8/6
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Close   View the register entry >>, has given his tenants allotments on which they can store 'foul accumulations'. The following extract contains Thorne's description of the shocking state of the wells and drainage in the village, facilities which make the water 'nothing better than stinking pools'. (87) Expresses no surprise that Terling was recently visited by 'King Typhus', killing hundreds of people, and presents Thorne's damning evidence against Terling's poor-law guardians who had taken measures to disinfect the village and to supply villagers with medical provisions, but had ignored Thorne's repeated calls for the removal of the foul 'nuisances'. Thorne adds that the guardians could have prevented the cholera outbreak had they performed their duty, and adds that Lord Rayleigh had informed him of the properly constructed cesspools with which he was supplying villagers. Includes an extract from Thorne's second report on Terling, which presents further evidence of the board of guardians' signal neglect of Thorne's advice, the continuing presence of 'abominable' nuisances in the village and of the board's failure to build properly constructed cesspools. Punch sarcastically concludes that this illustrates what 'a great principle is "Local Self-Government"' whose prophet is Bumble (the parish beadle in Charles Dickens's Dickens, Charles (1837–96) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Oliver Twist [Dickens, Charles John Huffam] 1838. Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, 3 vols, London: Richard Bentley
Close   View the register entry >>.) Presents Thorne's praise for Dr Gimson Gimson, Dr (fl. 1868) PU1/54/8/7
Close   View the register entry >>, who has attended sick villagers, and Lord Rayleigh and his wife Clara E L Stutt (Baroness Rayleigh) Strutt, Clara Elizabeth La Touche, Lady Rayleigh (fl. 1868) PU1/54/8/7 ODNB, s.v. Strutt, John William
Close   View the register entry >>, who have embarked on such philanthropic schemes as establishing a convalescent hospital for children. In a final extract, Thorne describes the equally dire conditions of Witham, a village near Terling, whose guardians have also ignored the unsanitary conditions of the houses and streets. Concludes by pointing out that the Sanitary Act of 1866 empowers the Secretary of State to inquire into such cases of neglect, and to force boards of guardians to perform their duty. (88)

Genre:

Regular Feature, Proceedings, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Government, Politics, Education, Military Technology, Steamships

    Notes the government's introduction of a bill to nationalize electric telegraphs and points out that since the Civil Service Civil Service
Close   View the register entry >> is now 'reasonably educated, we may now hope that our messages will be accurately transcribed'. Also notes that in the House of Lords House of Lords
Close   View the register entry >> a question was raised on floating batteries for coastal defence, and reports were heard on the establishment of Charles Seely's Seely, Charles (1803–87) WBI
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Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Agriculture, Breeding, Class, Education, Reading, Evolution, Darwinism, Science Communication, Animal Development

    Pokes fun at a review of Darwin 1868 Darwin, Charles Robert 1868. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, 2 vols, London: J. Murray
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Close   View the register entry >> work. Relates that 'Old JOHN STOCKWELL, of Bathley Wood Farm' is prompted by talk at his local public house to borrow the volumes from 'his clergyman, who is scientific, and subscribes to a London Library', and to peruse the work while being stimulated by brandy and water. Relates that since the farmer's education stopped at fourteen he fails to 'master the polysyllabic difficulties' in the work, and after struggling with 'Hybridism' and 'Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis' 'throws DARWIN down' and retires to bed where he 'resolves never again to stray away from Old Moore Vox Stellarum (1701–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Education, Meteorology

    'In Meteorology'.

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Mental Illness, Exploration, Psychology, Phrenology

    Presents a discussion between the author and his friend, Mr Bruff, who think that explorers are insane, not least because of their tendency to 'go roaming about [...] among lions and cannibals'. The author retorts that the same 'gentlemen of wealth' are equally insane to 'put themselves in the way of cannon balls' and insists that such famous travellers as David Livingstone Livingstone, David (1813–73) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> and John H Speke Speke, John Hanning (1827–64) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> are sane but actuated 'by a particular impulse'. The discussion then focuses on Bruff's claim that two brothers must both have an insane interest in travel, although the author argues from phrenology that a large organ of 'Locality' will, for one brother, find 'relief in exertion', but for the other brother the size of this organ will produce large amounts of 'pent-up energy' and mental imbalance.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Utilitarianism, Politics

    Discusses the suspension by the Poor Law Board Poor Law Board
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Close   View the register entry >>. Explains that Rogers was dismissed because he 'repeatedly appealed to the public and the Poor Law Board' rather than the guardians, and suggests that he had 'paid the penalty of his zeal'.

Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Sound, Music, Invention, Steam-power

    Notes from a passage in Tyndall 1867 Tyndall, John 1867. Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London: Longmans, Green and Co.
Close   View the register entry >> how John Tyndall Tyndall, John (1820–93) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> explained that music could be transmitted to great distances using wooden conductors. Discusses the possibility of using this to listen to Crystal Palace Crystal Palace
Close   View the register entry >> concerts 'without the bore of going to them'. Warns that 'great care must be taken in laying down the sound-tubes, so that no unpleasant noises [for example, 'the whistle of a steam-engine'] may chance to be conveyed by them'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Language, Mechanics, Dynamics

    Believes the title of a paper recently presented by James C Maxwell Maxwell, James Clerk (1831–79) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> to the Royal Society Royal Society of London
Close   View the register entry >>—'On Governors'—is evidence that 'The encroachments of Slang are daily becoming more and more audacious'. A version of this paper was published as Maxwell 1868 Maxwell, James Clerk 1868. 'On Governors', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 16, 270–283
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Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Botany, Breeding, Darwinism, Language

    Three comic definitions: 'Hybridism—In DARWIN Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–82) DSB
Close   View the register entry >> (a reference to Darwin 1868 Darwin, Charles Robert 1868. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, 2 vols, London: J. Murray
Close   View the register entry >>)', 'Highbreedism—In Belgravia', and 'Highbreadism—In baking circles, when the quartern loaf goes up'.

Genre:

Editorial Reply, Spoof

Subjects:

Photography, Language, Chemistry, Railways

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

C K Keene, Charles Samuel (1823–91) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Zoological Gardens

    Shows a young boy and his aunt standing beside a lion's cage in the Zoological Society Gardens Zoological Society of London —Gardens
Close   View the register entry >>. The boy tells his aunt that he would like to see his school headmaster placed in the lion's den.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Veterinary Science, Dissection, Surgery, Cultural Geography, Nationalism

    Expresses horror at cruel practices perpetrated at French schools of veterinary science. Noting how students are obliged to dissect live horses, considers French veterinary surgeons to be 'bigger brutes than those on which they operate', and emphasises that English dissecting rooms are for instructing students, not for torture.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Military Technology, Manufactories, Industry, Religious Authority

    Discusses news of a Lyons factory that produces nine hundred Chassepot rifles every day. Punch sarcastically praises this rate of production because it causes such carnage on behalf of Pope Pius IX Pius IX, Pope (1792–1878) CBD
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Genre:

Regular Feature, Proceedings, Drollery

Subjects:

Public Health, Architecture, Government

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Environmentalism, Railways, Transport, Commerce

    Discusses an attempt by the Metropolitan Board of Works Metropolitan Board of Works
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Close   View the register entry >> lands for which he is charging a huge price. Suggests that the Board of Works be allowed to take legal action against Wilson, just as a railway company could take action against a landowner who charged exorbitant costs for buying his land.

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Quackery, Medical Treatment, Medical Practitioners, Commerce

    Begins by describing the recent collapse of Thomas Holloway's Holloway, Thomas (1800–83) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> shop premises on the north side of the Strand. Believes Holloway 'surpassed in name OLD PARR' and how, in his shop, Holloway had 'compounded Pills' which he 'declared in puffs and bills'. Explains that the site of the shop is to be used for 'Courts of Law' and warns those 'Quacks, on public health who prey' to glean a bad omen from the fall of the house of Holloway.

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Physical Geography, Education, War

    The writer describes his attempts to improve his knowledge of geography. Stresses how his familiarity with various geographical locations has come from major conflicts, such as the Crimean war, the war between Austria, France, and Italy, and the current war between Britain and Abyssinia.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

C K Keene, Charles Samuel (1823–91) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Mathematics, Domestic Economy

    Shows a 'Studious Lodger', standing near a table, in conversation with his landlady, Mrs Priggins. Pointing, with a knife, to a plate of meat he tells Mrs Priggins that if she had a better understanding of mathematics she would 'readily comprehend how impossible it is that this steak which I sent from table last night a rectangular parallelogram, is now an irregular pentagon!!'.

Genre:

Short Fiction, Drollery, Serial

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

George L P B Du Maurier Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834–96) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Vulcanology, Exploration, Geology, Zoology, Human Development

Institutions mentioned:

Acclimatisation Society, Acclimatisation Society, New South Wales
Close   View the register entry >> Royal Geographical Society Royal Geographical Society
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Genre:

Regular Feature, Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

L S Sambourne, Edwin Linley (1844–1910) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Gender, Zoology, Amusement

    Shows a woman wearing a hat in the shape of a swan's head. Around her shoulders, she wears a white-feathered shawl, and warms her hands in a muff made from a swan's feathers and feet. The caption explains, 'This little duck wear and effective aquatic jacket, strongly recommended for the boating season'.

Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

Exhibitions, Museums, Representation, Architecture

People mentioned:

Christopher Wren Wren, Sir Christopher (1632–1723) DSB
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Institutions mentioned:

South Kensington Museum South Kensington Museum
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Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

L S Sambourne, Edwin Linley (1844–1910) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Zoology, Class, Exhibitions, Display

    Narrates the experiences of two yokels, Josias Gutch and Zacharias Brown. Josias describes to his friend a visit to a 'Zircus' which advertised a mysterious animal called 'the great Zaga-zias'. He explains that he demanded his money back on not seeing the beast before being directed to a tent where he saw what Zacharias identifies from his description as 'an Nellyphant'. The two friends disagree about the identity of the beast and ask the parson for help; he takes them back to Wombwell's menagerie Wombwell's Menagerie
Close   View the register entry >> in his trap. What Josias took to be 'the Great Zaga-zias' proves to be an elephant identified as 'THE GREAT SAGACIOUS'.

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

J T Tenniel, Sir John (1820–1914) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Disease, Politics, Religion

    Shows Dr Disraeli (Benjamin Disraeli Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–81) ODNB
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Close   View the register entry >>) standing near a chair on which sits Paddy, a comic representation of Ireland. Paddy's swollen jaw is wrapped in a bandage labelled 'Protestant Church', which is identified as the bad tooth of the title. The dialogue between the two doctors reveals their different solutions to Catholic opposition of the established Church of Ireland Church of Ireland
Close   View the register entry >>, Gladstone believing that it should 'come out at once' (be disestablished), Disraeli being 'decidedly in favour of stopping'.

Genre:

Regular Feature, Proceedings, Drollery

Subjects:

Archaeology, Geology, Museums, Railways, Transport, Accidents

    Notes the discovery of evidence that English porcelain may have been manufactured at Bow, where 'moulds have been found whence China now at South Kensington South Kensington Museum
Close   View the register entry >> is stated to have been made'. Adds that geologists at the Museum of Economic Geology Museum of Economic Geology, Charing Cross
Close   View the register entry >> have reported that the owners of the land on which the discovery was made want to advance research 'in the interests of English art'. Later notes the introduction of a railway bill making it compulsory to provide means of communication between guards and passengers.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Railways, Transport, Charlatanry, Commerce

People mentioned:

Samuel M Peto Peto, Sir Samuel Morton (1809–89) ODNB
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Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Invention

    Presents a short drama describing how a hairdresser defended his use of machinery to brush the hair of a swell.

Genre:

Introduction, Drollery; Advertisement, Spoof

Subjects:

Railways, Transport, Heroism, Religion

    Includes an advertisement from a firm of dubious sounding 'Ecclesiastical Decorators, Plumbers, and Glaziers' who propose to construct a stained glass window 'representing the progress of the construction of a Railway, and designed to illustrate the life and works of an eminent Engineer'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Aeronautics

    Announces that a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society Royal Aeronautical Society
Close   View the register entry >> 'has flown' and will 'fly the length of the Crystal Palace Crystal Palace
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Genre:

Short Fiction, Drollery, Serial

Subjects:

Mesmerism, Physical Geography, Mathematics, Medical Treatment

Genre:

Regular Feature, Proceedings, Drollery

Subjects:

Military Technology, Government, Politics

    Notes John S Pakington's Pakington, John Somerset, 1st Baron Hampton (1799–1880) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> bringing forward of the Army Army
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Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Utilitarianism, Class, Health, Disease, Language

    Laments the ways in which poor-law inspectors 'use fine official language to veil in some degree the horrors they discover, and which it is their duty plainly to disclose'. Presents extracts from a report describing some of the grim conditions in Bedminster Poor Law Union Workhouse Bedminster Poor Law Union Workhouse
Close   View the register entry >> and reporting that the words 'inadquate' and 'insufficient' have been used by guardians to describe conditions which, as Ernest A Hart Hart, Ernest Abraham (1835–98) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> found, were inhumane and even fatal to paupers.

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Railways, Sound, Pollution

Genre:

Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Societies, Medical Practitioners, Quackery, Medical Treatment, Charlatanry

    Announces that Thomas Holloway Holloway, Thomas (1800–83) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> delivered the Harveian Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Physicians
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Close   View the register entry >> saying that 'at forty every man is either a fool or a physician', observes that many in the audience were aged over forty.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Education

    Believes that medical students will be interested in a report on the Florentine chamber of deputies who are debating the 'Grinding-Tax Bill'. Suggests that this is a 'tax upon grinding, the consideration whereof may occasion some of those youths who design themselves candidates for diplomas in medicine and surgery to rejoice as being better off than the Italian students'.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Military Technology, Government, Politics

    Notes the existence of a 'Special Committee' for 'floating obstructions and submarine explosive structures for sea-defence' and its publication of a report on 'Passive Obstructions for the Defence of Harbours and Channels'. Wonders if the board of the Admiralty Admiralty
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Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Hospitals, Medical Treatment, Representation

    Praises the work of John Absolon Absolon, John (1815–95) WBI
Close   View the register entry >>, an artist who, 'without money-payment has given three months of well-occupied time to the painting of ten pictures in distemper, for the decoration of one of the sick wards of Guy's Hospital Guy's Hospital
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Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Politics, Medical Treatment, Pharmaceuticals

    Referring to William E Gladstone's Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–98) ODNB
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Genre:

Short Fiction, Drollery, Serial

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

D M Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834–96) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Evolution, Human Development, Darwinism, Ornithology, Zoology, Nutrition

    The illustration shows activity on the top of a house-boat (the 'Volcano Villa' of the story), which is sailing into a sunset. On the chimney of the house is perched a strange spoonbill (a 'pangofflin') with a beak formed in the shape of two forks. On the roof, a simian William Nutt (the long-serving man servant in the story) balances on the top of a chair, juggles various items of cutlery, and balances several bottles on its nose. This entertainment pleases Nutt's employer, Grace Marchmont, who looks on admiringly from her resting place near the chimney stack.

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Ornithology, Evolution, Darwinism

    Addressed to the editor of the 'Chikkin Hazard', this explains his choice of illustration accompanying Anon, 'Chikkin Hazard. Chapter XIII. Floating Capital', Punch, 54 (1868), 165–66. The letter-writer points out that the bird in the illustration is a 'tame pangofflin' which is a 'variety of the spoonbill' whose 'peculiar bill' is, according to the author's ornithological friend, 'a splendid illustration of MR. DARWIN'S Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–82) DSB
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Genre:

Essay

Subjects:

Sound, Physics, Spiritualism, Charlatanry

    Boasting that Mr Punch's jokes have stopped the 'spirits' from giving musical concerts, tha author stresses how 'easy it would be to copy their performance', appealing to a passage in Tyndall 1867 Tyndall, John 1867. Sound: A Course of Eight Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London: Longmans, Green and Co.
Close   View the register entry >> in which the physicist insists on the unlimited distance through which sounds and music can be transmitted. Interprets this as suggesting that the sounds of a guitar or an accordion (instruments frequently used at séances) could be transmitted from a room beneath the 'apartment where the spirits were holding their séance' and thus 'wondrously astonish the weak minds of the audience'.

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Transport, Steam-power, Palaeontology

    Records the 'horror, surprise, and indignation' with which he responded to the sight of a 'large steam-roller' at work in Park Lane. Likens the crowd's reaction to that elicited by a 'Dodo or Plesiosaurus, or some other praediluvian and now non-extent monster'. Proceeds to condemn this aspect of 'street-improvements', not least because it has been borrowed from France. Upholds the virtues of travelling in carriages along bumpy roads, and thinks steam-rollers 'must end in revolutions' as in France.

Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

Gender, Psychology, Mental Illness, Disease, Mesmerism, Spiritualism, Religious Authority, Religion

    Written from the perspective of a bachelor, this links a variety of female maladies to hysteria. Explains that women's tendency to 'laugh or cry / Without reason why' and to indulge in violent actions is attributable to hysteria. Similarly, believes that hysteria is responsible for a woman's cunning and ability 'to feign [...] without her will', as well as her 'prophetic fits', her obedience to mesmeric and spiritualistic forces, and her subordination to the will of 'divines' and 'Ritualism'. Concludes by wishing that his future wife be content with her husband and his intention to 'avert her from that dire disease, / Hysteria'.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Astronomy, Politics

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Quackery, Medical Practitioners, Politics, Government, Public Health

    Addressed to the Home Secretary, Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy Gathorne-Hardy, Gathorne, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, the letter-writer supports a plea in 'a medical journal' for him to 'press forward the Medical Acts Amendment Bill, which will rob the quacks of their power to assume medical titles', and which has been neglected for several years. Believes that 'There can hardly be much public business which should be deemed more pressing than that of taking care of the health of the public', and insists that depriving quacks of medical titles will undermine their power to endanger people's lives.

Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

Exploration, Heroism, Representation

    Compares the false stories promulgated by the 'Johanna men' about David Livingstone's Livingstone, David (1813–73) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> death to the lies of Joanna Southcott Southcott, Joanna (1750–1814) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> (Southcott is spelt 'Southcote' suggesting an allusion to the Secretary of State for India, Stafford H Northcote Northcote, Sir Stafford Henry, 1st Baron Iddesleigh (1818–87) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>). Notes the 'pride' with which Roderick I Murchison Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1st Baronet (1792–1871) DSBODNB
Close   View the register entry >> announced 'brave' Livingstone's safety and return home, and dismisses a recent bust of 'the late' Livingstone in favour of a real 'LIVING STONE'.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Hospitals, Patronage

Institutions mentioned:

St George's Hospital St George's Hospital
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Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

Heroism,

    In response to news that Roderick Murchison has been elected to the Académie des Sciences, Paris Académie des Sciences, Paris
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Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Government, Politics, Commerce

    Discusses the opposition of Robert Grimston Grimston, Robert (1816–84) ODNB
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Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

L S Sambourne, Edwin Linley (1844–1910) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Gender, Zoology, Amusement

    Shows a woman wearing a hat in the shape of an exotic bird—presumably a 'celestial' bird.

Genre:

Essay

Subjects:

Railways, Transport, Race, Human Development

    Begins by noting the recent 'opening of two railways into wild and savage Northern districts'—the Sutherland Railway Sutherland Railway
Close   View the register entry >> in Scotland and the St John's Wood Railway Company St John's Wood Railway Company
Close   View the register entry >> extension to the Metropolitan Railway Metropolitan Railway Company
Close   View the register entry >>. Describes Mr Punch's experience of the latter, which terminates in a 'swarthy moor' and which uses 'new and luxurious' carriages and agreeable porters. Proceeds to describe the inhabitants of St John's Wood as if they were an exotic civilisation: for example, the author stresses that they are 'not ill-conditioned', that their language 'has affinity with that of the Pembridge districts, and Bayswater', that they indulge in 'dreary' amusements 'usual among savage tribes', and that they sustain worship of a 'Great Spirit called the Pine-Apple Ghost'.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Zoology, Nutrition

Genre:

Catechism, Spoof

Subjects:

Gender, Medical Practitioners, Quackery, Charlatanry

    'Why ought a Medical Quack to be a Woman? / Because he's always a Charlotte Anne.'

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

G B Bowers, Georgina (b. 1836) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Economic Geology, Domestic Economy, Political Economy

    Shows an elderly man sitting by a fire in his drawing room. He tells his maidservant not to 'put too many coals on' because it makes him 'shiver when I think that in three hundred years we shall have none left'. This responds to contemporary debate on the rapid depletion of Britain's coal measures.

Genre:

Extract, Reportage

Publications extracted:

Daily Telegraph Daily Telegraph (1856–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Subjects:

Photography, Light, Instruments, Politics, Religion

    Presents two different reports (from the Daily Telegraph Daily Telegraph (1856–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Close   View the register entry >>) of Russell's recent stance on his younger political colleagues' policy of disestablishing the Church of Ireland Church of Ireland
Close   View the register entry >>. The format of the article is designed to mimic the two, subtly different, photographs used in a stereoscope.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Utilitarianism, Disease, Health, Medical Practitioners, Politics, Government, Charlatanry

    Begins by noting how attention has recently been directed to the filthy condition of workhouses, and discusses a report in the Pall Mall Gazette Pall Mall Gazette (1865–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Genre:

Short Fiction, Drollery, Serial

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

George L P B Du Maurier Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834–96) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Zoology, Animal Behaviour, Human Development, Music, Anatomy, Instruments

    Includes two illustrations of a monkey sitting and playing musical instruments. It also includes an illustration of several birds and fishes, and a snake, all of which have cutting implements (for example, a saw and a bradawl) for mouths.

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

George L P B Du Maurier Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834–96) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Zoology, Animal Behaviour, Human Development, Amusement

    Includes an illustration of a monkey dressed in gentleman's clothing. It is shown in two poses: 'Working out a problem' and 'Solving a problem'.

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Military Technology, Steamships

Genre:

Regular Feature, News-Commentary

Subjects:

Amusement, Music, Evolution, Darwinism, Language

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Railways, Transport, Cultural Geography

Publications cited:

London Scotsman London Scotsman (1867–71) Waterloo Directory
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    Discusses a stormy meeting to discuss the affairs of the Caledonian Railway Caledonian Railway
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Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Botany, Natural History, Language, Taxonomy

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Spiritualism

People mentioned:

Daniel D Home Home, Daniel Dunglas (1833–86) ODNB
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Genre:

Catechism, Spoof

Subjects:

Gender, Medical Practitioners, Quackery, Charlatanry, Analytical Chemistry, Scientific Practitioners

    Following Anon, 'Question for Dr. Mary Walker', Punch, 54 (1868), 177, insists that since a 'Medical Quack can be called a woman because he's a Charlotte Anne', so 'a Chemist might be called a Ditto, as he is an Anne Eliza (Analyser)'.

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Exploration, Physical Geography, Imperialism, Travel, Heroism, Controversy, Human Development, Mapping, Ethnology, Anthropology, Geology

    Possibly a response to a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society Royal Geographical Society
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Close   View the register entry >> expedition to Abyssinia were discussed. Begins by praising Murchison, the president of the society, and 'the Chief in Johanna'. Notes the support for Murchison's views by Samuel W Baker Baker, Sir Samuel White (1821–93) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, Richard F Burton Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821–90) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, Francis Galton Galton, Sir Francis (1822–1911) DSB ODNB
Close   View the register entry >>, 'PETH'RICK' (probably John Petherick Petherick, John (1813–82) WBI
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Close   View the register entry >>, and Mr Osborne Osborne, Mr (fl. 1868) PU1/54/18/1
Close   View the register entry >>, all of whom loudly declare Murchison, a 'ho-ieroe'. Describes the way that Murchison stood alone 'like a rock' ''Gainst F.G.S.'s shock' in seeing through the large 'lie' of 'Moussa' (this is possibly Moussa of Sati Moussa of Sati (d. 1883) WBI
Close   View the register entry >>), a move that won the praise of Baker and Burton. Proceeds to praise David Livingstone's Livingstone, David (1813–73) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> feats, including his defiance of 'slave-hunters and fevers and tsetse', and his tracing, mastering, and mapping of tribes. In the concluding stanza, urges the fellows of the Geographical Society to reiterate their praise for 'the pride of the Highlands' who hails from a 'high Gaelic line' that is as 'Old as Silurian slates' on which Murchison 'may be proud to recline'. However, anticipates that the rooms of the Geographical Society will witness 'a still brighter gem'—the return of Livingstone.

Genre:

Regular Feature, Proceedings, Drollery

Subjects:

Railways, Commerce, Charlatanry, Government

    Notes William Hutt's Hutt, Sir William (1801–82) ODNB
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Genre:

Regular Feature, Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Military Technology, Ornithology, Animal Behaviour, Patenting, Electricity, Manufactories, Supernaturalism, Spectroscopy

    Lists various items of scientific news which involve puns on technical terms. For example, 'The proper thing to use with gun-cotton is shot silk', and 'A Scientific Ghost-story will shortly appear in fortnightly numbers, founded on Spectrum Analysis'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Catechism

Subjects:

Matter Theory, Cosmology, Periodicals, Comparative Philology, Ancient Authorities

    Anticipating the wide readership of Alfred Tennyson's Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809–92) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> 'Lucretius' Tennyson, Alfred 1868. 'Lucretius', Macmillan's Magazine, 18, 1–9
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Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Crime, Charlatanry, Patronage, Scientific Practitioners

    Begins by identifying Daniel D Home Home, Daniel Dunglas (1833–86) ODNB
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Genre:

Short Fiction, Drollery, Serial

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

George L P B Du Maurier Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834–96) ODNB
Close   View the register entry >> Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander 1895. The History of "Punch", London: Cassell
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Subjects:

Zoology, Reasoning, Palaeontology, Nutrition

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Crime, Charlatanry, Patronage, Scientific Practitioners

    Believes the legal trial between Jane Lyon Lyon, Jane (fl. 1868) Jenkins 1982
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Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Agriculture, Human Development, Politics

    Discusses the 'prevalent practice of baby-farming', practitioners of which are distinguished from other farmers because they are never protectionists and always 'utterly heartless', since they do not wish for any legislation that will protect their livestock.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Crime, Charlatanry, Commerce

People mentioned:

Daniel D Home Home, Daniel Dunglas (1833–86) ODNB
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Genre:

Short Fiction, Drollery, Serial

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Technology

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Crime, Charlatanry, Commerce

People mentioned:

Daniel D Home Home, Daniel Dunglas (1833–86) ODNB
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Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Education, Ornithology, Palaeontology, Statistics, Public Health

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Charlatanry

Genre:

Regular Feature, Proceedings, Drollery

Subjects:

Government, Politics, Measurement, Nationalism, Cultural Geography, Gender

    Notes the discussion in both Houses of Parliament Houses of Parliament
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Close   View the register entry >>, 'the Mechanist of the Heavens' (a reference to Somerville 1831 Somerville, Mary 1831. Mechanism of the Heavens, London: J. Murray
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Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Astronomy, Instrument-makers, Scientific Practitioners, Representation, Exhibitions

    Describes how the companion of a 'scientific friend' consoled him by explaining that the portrait of telescope inventor James Gregory Gregory (Gregorie), James (1638–75) DSB
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Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Domestic Economy, Gender

    Pokes fun at an advertisement from a woman medium for 'séances of Youth'. Punch suggests that this means that lady séance-goers can 'get themselves enamelled by disembodied impostors'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Politics, Spiritualism, Language

    Following remarks in The Times The Times (1777–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Close   View the register entry >> having 'allowed themselves to be tied up', suggests that there are similarities between the liberal statesmen and the mediums William H H Davenport Davenport, William Henry Harrison (1841–77) WBI
Close   View the register entry >> and Ira E Davenport Davenport, Ira Erastus (1839–1911) WBI
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Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Spiritualism, Periodicals, Language

People mentioned:

Daniel D Home Home, Daniel Dunglas (1833–86) ODNB
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Genre:

Advertisement, Spoof

Subjects:

Exploration, Physical Geography, Heroism | Medical Practitioners, Controversy, Quackery

    Includes advertisements for a watch with which to 'count the minutes' until David Livingstone's Livingstone, David (1813–73) ODNB
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Genre:

Short Fiction, Drollery, Serial

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Human Development, Zoology, Evolution

    Includes an illustration showing Grace Marchmont and her simian-looking servant, William Nutt, standing on a beach.

Genre:

Essay, Spoof

Subjects:

Politics, Government, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Matter Theory, Force, Commerce, Electrochemistry, Electricity

    Divided into two sections. In 'To Dissolve Parliament Houses of Parliament
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Close   View the register entry >>', and 'Colouring Matter'. 'Gum Benjamin' is responsible for giving Parliament its 'adhesive' properties while being 'wonderfully plastic'. Points out how the 'sensitive atoms' of Parliament can be held in suspense by 'an occult influence'—presumably that of 'Gum Benjamin'. In 'Electoral Affinities', gold is claimed to be a 'universal political solvent, specially remarkable for its electoral affinities'. Using an analogy between politics and electrochemistry, explains how bringing the 'auriferous wires of a powerful club battery' in contact with 'the Poll' causes the latter to become 'positively electrified with venal avidity, the whole body surrounding the Poll, being charged with a subtle fluid technically called craft'.

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Military Technology, Government, Political Economy

    Discusses an extract from The Times The Times (1777–1900+) Waterloo Directory
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Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Railways, Transport, Commerce

Genre:

News-Commentary