Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:Single Formal photographic portrait of William

Formal photographic portrait of William Henry Besant

'Explanation of Plate XII'

Study of a porpoise skeleton

The small girl stands with her Grandmother's boa wrapped around her neck

Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland Finish:Single Formal photographic portrait of WilliamMonoscopic view from a stereo image used to produce Plate 24 figure 7 from the paper "On the construction of specula of six feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulae made with them", by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 151 (1861) pp. 681 746. The great telescope seen from the south, showing the position of the telescope when a man enters the tube to fix the small speculum