'Plumbum galaena' aeroplane At the end of December

At the end of December 1868

Palmerston had introduced a bill to transfer the government of British Indian possessions from the East India Company to the Crown

but he changed his mind and was successfully elected as an MP for the constituency of Westminster in 1807

hang in a string bag

'Plumbum galaena' aeroplane At the end of DecemberSpecimen of Galena (lead sulphide) here termed 'sulphure of lead; galaena'. Plate 24 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R. Taylor & Co., 1804). The accompanying text states that "This is the commonest lead ore The present specimen came from Derbyshire, and is valuable from having the primitive cubic crystals so distinct." The plate is inscribed: "May 1