'Trevandrum Observatory...from the North West' Size:S: 40 x 30cm and the public debt was

and the public debt was growing rapidly

Presentation ceremony in St James's Palace

' Sir Frederick Augustus Abel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1860

figures of bryophytes set within a landscape

'Trevandrum Observatory...from the North West' Size:S: 40 x 30cm and the public debt wasView of Trevandrum Observatory from the north west. The main observatory is shown on small hill on the skyline. The observatory was designed and constructed in 1837 by W. H. Horsley, a lieutenant in the Madras Engineers, under the patronage of Sri Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma (1813 1846) Maharaja of the State of Travancore [now Thiruvananthapuram in the state of Kerala, India]. Plate 2 from Description of an observatory established at Trevandrum by his