Telescope from Selenographia mb-width 2401 In 1898 President William McKinley

In 1898 President William McKinley appointed him a member of the commission created to establish government in the Territory of Hawaii

View of two figures standing near a shop front on Macclesfield Street

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910)

Middle Temple Hall

was naturalist aboard two expeditions led by Otto von Kotzebue (1787-1846)

Telescope from Selenographia mb-width 2401 In 1898 President William McKinleyTelescope from Selenographia, 1647 (1956). Selenographia is a work by the German Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius (1611 1687). A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.