Two specimens of fern leaf mb-width 1789 View showing the different stages

View showing the different stages of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade scaling ladder drill

1876-1883)

Thousands of people lined the streets to welcome their heroes back from London

17th September 1978

Two specimens of fern leaf mb-width 1789 View showing the different stagesA photogenic drawing of two plant specimens, the leaves placed on sensitized paper and exposed to sunlight. Inscribed above in ink: 'An early attempt at Photography from Norwich.' Apparently, an early use of the process developed by William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (1800 1877). The naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790 1872) in whose papers this image is preserved, practised as a surgeon in Swaffham, Norfolk, 1816 c. 1859.