The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY. * This notice has been contributed by Robert Hunt, Esq., keeper of Mining in theuseum. n 57 Q HALL OF TtiK MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL, GEOLUGY. commodio
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY. * This notice has been contributed by Robert Hunt, Esq., keeper of Mining in theuseum. n 57 Q HALL OF TtiK MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL, GEOLUGY. commodious building has been erected to receive them. One front oilthis museum (shown in the previous page) is in Piccadilly, theapartments at this end of the building being occupied by the library,palseoutological office, model-room, laboratory, and the offices of thedirector and secretary; the other front, which is the chief entranceto the museum, is in Jermyn Street. The objects of this establishment are to exhibit all the practicalapplications, in the most extended sense, which have been made of thegeological and mirieralogical formations of the United Kingdom. Themanner in which this has been accomplished will be understood fromthe following summary of the arrangements. On entering from Jermyn Street, we find a very spacious hall (seeabove), which is devoted to the exhibition of all the building and orna-mental stones of these islands. In the cases around the hall will be foundspecimens, in six-inch cubes, of most of the sandstones, ooli
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