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 . ate screen, thepilasters and cornice of the Cornish serpentine, and the panels of LEARNED SOCIETIES, ETC. MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL OE0L0GY. 577 he Irish serpentine, framed,vith the productions of
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 . ate screen, thepilasters and cornice of the Cornish serpentine, and the panels of LEARNED SOCIETIES, ETC. MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL OE0L0GY. 577 he Irish serpentine, framed,vith the productions of Der-jyshire, which are themselves;ery fine specimens of inlay- j. There is also in thisjiall a very large copy of anEtruscan vase, cut in thei\berdeen granite. In thehentre is a tessellated pave-nent, formed from the Corn-ish China clay by Prossers]»rocess of compression, andManufactured by , and around this will|>e found a paving of encausticiiles. Numerous pedestals inafferent stones stand aroundhe hall, showing in them-jelves the variety of marblesdiich Great Britain and Ire-md produce, which supportpecimens of marble vases,ptuettes in artificial stone,lement, &c. Ascending by a handsomeiaircase, at the sides of whichbecimensof British industrial*t are placed, the principalbor of the museum is reachedfliee plan). This apartment of the following dimen- long, 55 ft. the and. ons: —95 , 32 ft. high to I o » . tne root, auu GROUND plam of museum of practical geolooy. j!2 ft. 9 m. in the centre. he roof of this is of iron, and the arrangements for the admissionI light are exceedingly good. It is glazed with rough plate glass,r|e panes being each 10 ft. by 3 ft. 4 in., and f in. thick. Around thisjom run two light galleries, so that there are three tiers of glassjlses, and upon the balustrade of the galleries are horizontal glassjses, which are devoted to the exhibition of British fossils. In these!ses will be found specimens of the earliest forms of o
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