Academic Collection (#42)

Hubert Murray Burge / Vf
HUBERT MURRAY BURGE Headmaster of Winchester and Bishop

Edward Terry / Players 03
EDWARD TERRY English actor and manager (not related to the famous Terry family) seen here in the role of a schoolmaster in My Pretty Maid

James Challis / Cdv
JAMES CHALLIS English clergyman and astronomer

Sir Cw Wilson / Hill & Sau
SIR CHARLES WILLIAM WILSON Soldier, seen here in academic dress

Wa Spooner / Vfair 1898
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD SPOONER English clergyman and academic of New College, Oxford, best known for his Spoonerisms

Magdalene / Cambridge / 1907
Cambridge: Magdalene College the Pepys Library

British Association Tkt
Admission Ticket for the 1843 meeting of the British Association at Cambridge, with a view of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Daguerres Discovery
Daguerres discovery of an effective permanent photographic process, is announced by Arago to the Academy of Sciences in Paris. Date: 10 August 1839

Acad Francaise / Moloch
Caricature of the Academie Francaise, personified as a worrisome old woman compiling a dictionary

Newcastle Univ Student
A graduate of Newcastle University poses for his photograph in academic dress

Selective Breeding
Winners of a contest for selective breeding, matching brains with beauty, the academic with the athletic

Academie Francaise
Allegorical depiction of the academy showing toga clad men of learning surrounded by scientific instruments participating in all branches of the arts & sciences

Societies / Royal Society
House occupied by the Royal Society in Crane Court, Fleet Street

Academie Francaise 1867
The reception of M. Cuvillier Fleury at the French Academy; the most celebrated of the five academies included in the Institut

Royal Society / Fairholt
A meeting at Somerset House, London

Fairholt / Royal Antiq. Soc
A meeting at Somerset House, London

School Report / Front
A school report card for Ecole de Pont-Levoy for the academic year 1847 -8. Comments are passed on this pupils character

School Report / Inside
A school report card for Ecole de Pont-Levoy for the academic year 1847 -8. This child generally achieves the comment Bien with a few Tres Biens for music

Picard / Academiefrancaise
Louis-Benoit Picard, French playwright and member of the Academie- Francaise

Geog Commerciale 1887
A meeting of the Societe de Geographie Commerciale, Paris

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