Mink [?] eating a fish Finish:Rolled On the desk is an

On the desk is an ink well

A soot sweeper carrying his brush and sack past the Foundling Hospital

Joseph Dalton Hooker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1847

he advent of the railways had made Sunday excursions popular amongst the skilled working class

Mink [?] eating a fish Finish:Rolled On the desk is anVignette of a predatory mammal, possibly a mink, eating a landed fish within reeds. Closing vignette (p. 405) from 'Nuove sperienze intorno alla dolcificazione dell'acqua del mare', by Antonio Mario Lorgna, Memorie della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali, vol. 3 (1786) pp. 375 405. Original: woodcut engraving. 1786