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THE PALACE AND PARK: ITS NATURAL HISTORY, AND ITS PORTRAIT GALLERY, TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE POMPEIAN COURT.
GUIDE TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE AND ITS Park and Gardens.
PART I. PRELIMINARY AND INTRODUCTION.
ADVERTISEMENT.
PREFACE TO ORIGINAL EDITION.
CONVEYANCE BY ROAD AND RAIL.
Crystal Palace Company. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
THE REFRESHMENT DEPARTMENT.
INDEX TO THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE, ITS GARDENS AND PARK, AT SYDENHAM, As described or named in the General Guide-Book.
INTRODUCTION.
ACCOUNT OF THE BUILDING.
PART II. THE INTERIOR.
THE ENTRANCE.
INTRODUCTION TO THE FINE ARTS COURTS.
THE EGYPTIAN COURT.[5]
THE GREEK COURT.[6]
THE ROMAN COURT[8]
THE ALHAMBRA COURT.[9]
THE ASSYRIAN COURT,[11]
THE BYZANTINE AND ROMANESQUE COURT.[12]
THE GERMAN MEDIÆVAL COURT.[13]
THE ENGLISH MEDIÆVAL COURT.[14]
THE FRENCH AND ITALIAN MEDIÆVAL COURT,[15]
THE RENAISSANCE COURT.[16]
THE ELIZABETHAN COURT.
THE ITALIAN COURT,[17]
VESTIBULE TO THE ITALIAN COURT.[18]
COURT OF MONUMENTS OF ART.
THE STATIONERY COURT.[20]
THE BIRMINGHAM COURT.[21]
THE SHEFFIELD COURT.[22]
THE POMPEIAN COURT.[23]
NATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT.
FOREIGN GLASS MANUFACTURES.
BRITISH PORCELAIN MANUFACTURES.
CERAMIC COURT.
FANCY MANUFACTURES.
THE NAVE AND TRANSEPTS.
THE SOUTH TRANSEPT.
THE CANADIAN COURT.
THE LIBRARY READING ROOM.
THE GREAT CENTRAL TRANSEPT.
THE NORTH TRANSEPT, AND TROPICAL END OF THE BUILDING.
THE LECTURE ROOM.
THE COLOSSAL EGYPTIAN FIGURES,
THE BOTANY OF THE PALACE.
THE GALLERIES. THEIR FINE ART, AND OTHER COLLECTIONS.
THE PICTURE GALLERY.
THE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM AND TECHNOLOGICAL COLLECTION.
PORTRAIT GALLERY,
THE INDIAN COURT.
THE AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT DEPARTMENT.
THE MACHINERY IN MOTION.
PART III. THE EXTERIOR.
THE SITE.
THE PARK AND GARDENS.
THE TERRACES.
THE ARCHERY GROUND.
THE CRICKET GROUND.
THE GEOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND THE EXTINCT ANIMALS.[27]
THE CRYSTAL TOWERS.
THE ARTESIAN WELL, AND THE WATER SUPPLY.
THE FOUNTAINS.
PART IV. EXHIBITORS’ DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE.
INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.
EXHIBITORS’ DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE
THE PORTRAIT GALLERY OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
THE PORTRAIT GALLERY.
ANTIQUE PORTRAITS.
THE ITALIAN PORTRAITS.
THE FRENCH PORTRAITS.
THE GERMAN PORTRAITS.
ENGLISH PORTRAITS.
INDEX TO THE PORTRAIT GALLERY.
THE NATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE DESCRIBED.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
PART I. ETHNOLOGY.
PART II. ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY.
GEOLOGY AND INHABITANTS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
The Secondary Island.
THE CHALK.
No. 1.—The Mosasaurus. (Mosasaurus Hoffmanni, Hoffmann’s Mosasaur.)
Nos. 2 & 3.—The Pterodactyle.
THE WEALDEN.
Nos. 4 & 5.—The Iguanodon. (Iguanodon Mantelli, Conybeare.)
No. 6.—The Hylæosaurus. (Hylæosaurus Owenii.)
THE OOLITE.
No. 7.—The Megalosaurus.
Nos. 8 & 9.—Pterodactyles of the Oolite.
Nos. 10 & 11.—Teleosaurus.
THE LIAS.
Enaliosauria.
The Ichthyosaurus.
Plesiosaurus.
NEW RED SANDSTONE.
Batrachia.
THE POMPEIAN COURT IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
DESTRUCTION OF HERCULANEUM AND POMPEII.
PLINY’S LETTER TO TACITUS.
TO CORNELIUS TACITUS.
DISCOVERY OF THE ANCIENT CITIES.
JOURNAL.
HISTORY OF THE POMPEIAN HOUSE.
DESCRIPTION OF THE POMPEIAN HOUSE.
ATRIUM.
CUBICULA.
8. THE TABLINUM.
PERISTYLE.
EXTRACT FROM VITRUVIUS. Book vii., Chap. 5.
EXTRACT FROM PLINY’S NATURAL HISTORY.
NOTE.
Transcriber’s Notes.
Changes made
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