Genre:

News-Commentary

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

[Trident], pseud.  [Henry R Howard] *

Subjects:

Time, Technology, Menageries, Animal Behaviour

    Discusses the observation of a correspondent in The Times that the 'wooden outside case' of the great clock of St Paul's Cathedral was like Wombwell's menagerie. The illustration shows animals frolicking at a menagerie, notably a swan balancing on its beak a rod on which a lizard perches.