Machine for sampling sea-water at depth Size:XS: 40 x 30cm and Disraeli on the right

and Disraeli on the right in boots with his rods slung across his back

Nobby Stiles refereeing a charity match at Oswestry

He claimed the land speed record on 17th July 1964 at Lake Eyre

An English extract of the letter was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

Machine for sampling sea-water at depth Size:XS: 40 x 30cm and Disraeli on the rightPlate 11 from the paper 'On the specific gravity, and the temperature of sea waters, in different parts of the ocean, and in particular seas; with some account of their saline content', by Alexander Marcet, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 109 (1819), pp. 161 208. The instrument has twintrapdoors within a weighted brass cylinder. Original: pencil on paper. 1819