Sir Richard Airey Product:Postcard Mycological studies of the Giant

Mycological studies of the Giant Knight Agaricus (Tricholoma) Colossus (modern taxonomy Tricholoma colossus)

Compilation of astronomical observations showing the progress of a comet [now designated C/1742/C1] across the night sky between 23 February and 3 March 1742

Specimen from an old woman who suffered 'under symptoms of general paralysis and imbecility

20 October 1917

Sir Richard Airey Product:Postcard Mycological studies of the GiantSir Richard Airey, 1878. Airey was Quarter Master General of the 1st Brigade of the Light Division, and was present at the battles of Alma and Inkermann during the Crimean War, and wrote the order for the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. He was also Governor of Gibraltar. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc.