Punch, 12 (1847), [xiii].
May
Anon
Genre: | Illustration, Drollery; Reportage, Drollery |
Relevant illustrations: | wdct. |
Geological Recreations Subjects: | Societies, Geology, Scientific Practitioners |
The illustration, entitled 'An Association for the Advancement of Science
[an allusion to the
British
Association for the Advancement of Science] on an excursion',
depicts several geologists having a picnic on a beach. The text describes
geologists' eating habits, including their tendency to deal with pies as if
they were geological strata.
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