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Crystal Palace

A mighty hippopotamus displays its huge teeth

St Bride's is one of Christopher Wren's churches built to replace those destroyed by the Great Fire of London

1638 (1809)

So I've Found You At Last

Two specimens of crustaceans mb-width 998 Crystal PalaceMarine zoological studies of the crustaceans Nymphon gracile (figure 1) and Nymphon hirtum (figure 2). Plate 19 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). Figure 1 is described as simply: 'Inhabits the British sea every where.' T William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. Original: copperplate