Punch,  5 (1843), 96.

The British Association at Cork

Anon

Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Societies, Ethnology, Comparative Philology, Mathematics, Domestic Economy


    Brief descriptions of the alleged activities of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. These include Professor Luddyfuddy on 'the probable length of the whiskers of the Aborigines of Ancient Jericho' and the association's 'experiments with the ordinary knife and fork'.



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