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the Aurelia was designed to replace the ageing Aprilia
a member of a protection organisation who falls foul of both his colleagues and the law by committing murder
December 27/1873
Head and shoulders portrait of Bennet
Plate 9 from The zoological miscellany
Boat sailed by aerostatic 'wings' Finish:Float frame the Aurelia was designed toPlate 21 for the paper 'Sur un moyen de donner la Direction aux machines aerostatiques', by Comte de Galvez [Bernardo de Glvez y Madrid, Viscount of Galveston and Count of Glvez (1746 1786)], Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 74 part 2 (1784), pp. 469 470. The illustration shows the vessel under way with three pairs of 'sails' being operated manually. The papers states that these were inspired by 'the use birds make of their wings
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