Alkekengi Barbadense... HMS Victory This relates to the decision

This relates to the decision by Disraeli's government to undertake another attempt to complete the mapping of the Northwest Passage through the archipelago that stretches from the North American mainland towards the North Pole

and Abraham Lincoln for the Northern States on the right

Rumours of the invasion of Britain by France abounded

' Sir George Clerk was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819

Alkekengi Barbadense... HMS Victory This relates to the decisionBotanical study of a specimen of physalis, inscribed: 'Alkekengi Barbadense, patulum, parvo flore, fructu amplo, mucrone productioni Act. Phil n. 399.' A specimen of this plant was noted in 'A catalogue of the fifty plants sent from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society 1726', by Isaac Rand, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 35 (1729), p. 293. Not signed. Original: watercolour on paper. ca. 1730