Heath's gallery of British engravings.

English and French.

The art treasures of England; the master-pieces of the best English, Irish and Scottish painters and sculptors represented by one hundred fine steel engravings, with biographical and descriptive text.

Mode of access: Internet.

British mezzotinto portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : accompanied by biographical notes, and appendix of a selection of the prices produced at public sales by some of the specimens, down to the present time /

Includes indexes.

Illustrations of the British flora : a series of wood engravings, with dissections, of British plants /

Handbook revised by J.D. Hooker, London, 1908.

The British story briefly told : from early times to the present period : with thirty-four engravings representing the sovereigns in their proper costumes, and six engravings on steel, illustrative of the history.

Numbered plates are dated December 1832.

Picturesque rides and walks, with excursions by water, thirty miles round the British metropolis; illustrated in a series of engravings, coloured after nature; with an historical and topographical description of the country within the compass of that circle.

Mode of access: Internet.

The book of gems and cabinet of art : containing a series of fifty splendid steel engravings /

Mode of access: Internet.

The British angler's manual, or, The art of angling in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, with instructions in fly-fishing, trolling, and angling at the bottom.

Embellished with engravings from pictures and drawings by the author.

Harrison's British classicks.

Two columns to the page.

A catalogue of pictures by British artists in the possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bart. : with etchings from the whole collection, including the pictures in his gallery at Tabley house, Cheshire /

Includes mezzotint engravings.

Romano-British wall-painting fragments: a spectroscopic analysis

Raman spectroscopic analyses of fragmented wall-painting specimens from a Romano-British villa dating from ca. 200 AD are reported. The predominant pigment is red haematite, to which carbon, chalk and sand have been added to produce colour variations, applied to a typical Roman limewash putty composition. Other pigment colours are identified as white chalk, yellow (goethite), grey (soot/chalk mixture) and violet. The latter pigment is ascribed to caput mortuum, a rare form of haematite, to which kaolinite (possibly from Cornwall) has been added, presumably in an effort to increase the adhesive properties of the pigment to the substratum. This is the first time that kaolinite has been reported in this context and could indicate the successful application of an ancient technology discovered by the Romano-British artists. Supporting evidence for the Raman data is provided by X-ray diffraction and SEM-EDAX analyses of the purple pigment.

Mining in Northern British Columbia

The history of the settlement of the province is tied to patterns of exploration and min development. In Northern British Columbia the Cariboo goldfields provided the impetus for settlement of the region and the beginning for mining to extend into the watern and northern regions in a series of minor gold rushes. The northern half of the province has a geological diverse mineral base that supports a wide variety of mining, and a gradual improvement of exploration and mining methods due to scientific knowledge and technology provided opportunities for lode gold and base metal mines to be developed. The success of mining is based on world ore prices and competitive markets that impact the economic viability of developing a mine. Mining faces increasing pressures in the northern half of the province due to other resource values, such as tourism or protected areas, that claim and compete for a similar land base.