Calx carbonata tripe left half-profile

left half-profile

holding horse whips

Brunswick and East India Docks looking east with the River Lea in the middle distance and Perry's Masthouse on the right

15th May 1937

'A Gentle Vegetarian'

Calx carbonata tripe left half-profileSpecimen of calcium carbonate crystal, here termed 'crystallized carbonate of lime', showing optical effects. Plate 35 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 fine yellowish crystal shows at the apex three polished faces the double refraction is seen, when held in certain directions, by the