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'It is not that a small bird sings With aught of warning voice And bids distrust Anointed kings

'The Lagoons

Plate 11 from the paper 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the mercantile navy'

showing fashionably-dressed figures strolling in St James's Park

The Great Melbourne Telescope mb-code 1239281 'It is not that aThe 48 inch reflecting telescope, designed by Thomas Grubb, seen erected at Grubb's works at Rathmines in Dublin, Ireland. A workman takes up the observer's position, sitting in a temporary chair observer. The telescope was tested at the Grubb works before being sent to the Melbourne Observatory, Australia, to become operational in 1869. Inscribed verso in pencil: '? Melbourne telescope' Original: albumen print. 1867