Lumpfish Possesion The reference in the heading

The reference in the heading to a civil war concerns the many rumours circulating during the previous year concerning Louis Napoleon's supposed plot to launch an invasion on Britain

Humphry Davy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803

with 'butler' Gladstone at the rear bringing in the covered dish of redistribution

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Lumpfish Possesion The reference in the headingSide view of the Lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus. Reversed image [and therefore an original illustration for] De Historia Piscium, by Francis Willughby and John Ray (Oxford, 1686) plate 98 where it is styled 'Lumpus Anglorum'. This version is inscribed 'Lumpus Anglorum HHT. ad vivum delin.' Not dated. Original: ink on paper. ca. 1685 1686