Punch,  27 (1854), 12.

Old Cambridge Owls

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Archaeology, Language, Animal Development


    Responding to a report in The Times concerning the Cambridge Archaeological Society, criticises John S Henslow for not knowing that a 'porwigle or polley-wiggle is an undeveloped or undergraduate frog' rather than a young frog.



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