Punch,  51 (1866), [v]–[viii].

Introduction

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary; Notes



[1] Political Summary

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Disease, Astronomy

Institutions mentioned:

Atlantic Telegraph Company


    Notes the successful laying of an Atlantic telegraph cable between Britain and the United States, an outbreak of cholera in London, and a 'great meteoric shower' in November 1866 ([vi])



[2] Notes

Subjects:

Engineering, Telegraphy, Government, Patronage, Medical Practitioners, Public Health, Societies, Military Technology, Railways, Astronomy, Industry, Gender

Institutions mentioned:

Atlantic Telegraph Company


    Summarises articles on Cowper P Coles (PU1/51/1/7), on a tunnel under the English Channel (, PU1/51/2/3), on John Thwaites and the opening of the Thames Embankment (, PU1/51/6/2), on the Atlantic telegraph cable (, PU1/51/6/5, , PU1/51/5/8, and , PU1/51/6/6), on the knighthood conferred upon John Simon (, PU1/51/8/6), on William R Grove and the 1866 British Association meeting (, PU1/51/9/1, , PU1/51/10/1) ([vii]). The article on Coles suggests that these 'Notes' were written long after 1866: the items on Coles and the Channel tunnel refer to Coles's death in 1870 and to a Channel tunnel project of 1876. This section also refers to another article on the Atlantic telegraph cable and mentions the knighthoods conferred on Richard A Glass, Samuel Canning, and William Thomson (, PU1/51/11/1). It also summarises articles on election bribery (, PU1/51/11/4), on the cost of British armaments (, PU1/51/13/2), the bankruptcy of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company (, PU1/51/17/3), a meteor shower (, PU1/51/22/7), John Bright's political address in Dublin (, PU1/51/19/5), Queen Victoria's visit to industrial Wolverhampton (, PU1/51/23/13), the trial of a quack (, PU1/51/24/1), and the activities of an 'American Lady Doctor', Mary Walker (, PU1/51/25/5). ([viii])




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