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... British Museum , ' Oxford and Cambridge Nuts to Crack , ' which was reprinted in America . Richard Gooch was born at Norwich . At the time of his death , 4 September , 1849 , aged about fifty - eight , he held an appointment in the ...
... British Museum , ' Oxford and Cambridge Nuts to Crack , ' which was reprinted in America . Richard Gooch was born at Norwich . At the time of his death , 4 September , 1849 , aged about fifty - eight , he held an appointment in the ...
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... British Museum Reading - Room in the early seventies . I can very well remember them , but think Mr. Jenner must be mistaken as to the date , which must have been something like twenty years earlier . The brothers , who were dressed in ...
... British Museum Reading - Room in the early seventies . I can very well remember them , but think Mr. Jenner must be mistaken as to the date , which must have been something like twenty years earlier . The brothers , who were dressed in ...
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... British tower should be Anglo - Indian sense of " to boast , " is fully explained called a " beautiful drawing " of one and caricature " of the other , I cannot fancy . Both Barrère and Leland . This is scarcely the meaning in the ...
... British tower should be Anglo - Indian sense of " to boast , " is fully explained called a " beautiful drawing " of one and caricature " of the other , I cannot fancy . Both Barrère and Leland . This is scarcely the meaning in the ...
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... BRITISH FRESHWATER FISHES . With a Coloured Figure of each Species drawn from Nature by A. F. Lydon , and numerous Engravings . With Descriptive Letterpress by the Rev. W. HOUGHTON , M.A. F.L.S. Imperial 8vo . SPORTFOLIO ( The ) ...
... BRITISH FRESHWATER FISHES . With a Coloured Figure of each Species drawn from Nature by A. F. Lydon , and numerous Engravings . With Descriptive Letterpress by the Rev. W. HOUGHTON , M.A. F.L.S. Imperial 8vo . SPORTFOLIO ( The ) ...
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... BRITISH " LIFE OF ST . ALBAN . - Salmon alludes to a " Life of St. Alban , written in British , " which the ninth Abbot of St. Albans discovered in a Roman wall in the heart of that city . In- formation as to the book's whereabouts ( if ...
... BRITISH " LIFE OF ST . ALBAN . - Salmon alludes to a " Life of St. Alban , written in British , " which the ninth Abbot of St. Albans discovered in a Roman wall in the heart of that city . In- formation as to the book's whereabouts ( if ...
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