Museum of Practical Geology: a lecture by Lyon Playfair on the chemistry, manufacture and uses of glass. Wood engraving, 1852.

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[1852]
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31052i
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Museum of Practical Geology: a lecture by Lyon Playfair on the chemistry, manufacture and uses of glass. Wood engraving, 1852. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Museum of Practical Geology was opened in 1851 by Albert Prince Consort in Jermyn Street, London. It closed in 1933, the contents passed to the Science Museum, and the men's department store Simpsons was built on the site

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[London] : [Illustrated London news?], [1852]

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1 print : wood engraving ; image 17.6 x 23.8 cm

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Museum of Practical Geology--Dr Lyon Playfair's lecture.--(See next page.) Text on verso describes the lecture, and mentions conviction of Charles Pickering for stealing books from the British Museum Library, which occurred in 1852 (P.R. Harris, A history of the British Museum Library, London 1998, p. 229 and 707)

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