Punch,  27 (1854), 40.

Quite a Novelty

Anon

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

J L, pseud.  [John Leech] *

Subjects:

Botany, Natural History, Scientific Practitioners


    Shows an 'Amiable Experimentalist' and his friends at a dinner table in a room on whose walls hang pictures of fungi. He provides his friends with a botanical description of the mushrooms they are eating and they look on in consternation.



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