Pumpkin Man 2 mb-code 42-41622726 Plate 2 from the publication

Plate 2 from the publication A memoir on amputation of the thigh at the hip joint

Bill Travers seen here being made up as Snout on the set of Peter Hall's film 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' on location at the Compton Verney Estate

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

This relates first to the bad weather during the previous month of December 1876 when nearly six inches of rain fell in the one month

Pumpkin Man 2 mb-code 42-41622726 Plate 2 from the publication