The Palace and Park Its Natural History, and Its Portrait Gallery, Together with a Description of the Pompeian Court

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  THE
  PALACE AND PARK:
  ITS
  NATURAL HISTORY,
  AND ITS
  PORTRAIT GALLERY,
  TOGETHER WITH
  A DESCRIPTION OF THE POMPEIAN COURT.

  IN THE UNDERMENTIONED GUIDES:

  1. PALACE AND PARK;
  2. PORTRAIT GALLERY;
  3. ETHNOLOGY & NATURAL HISTORY.
  4. EXTINCT ANIMALS;
  5. POMPEIAN COURT;

  [Illustration]

  CRYSTAL PALACE LIBRARY,
  CRYSTAL PALACE, SYDENHAM.

  1859.




  GUIDE
  TO THE
  CRYSTAL PALACE
  AND ITS
  ~Park and Gardens.~

  BY SAMUEL PHILLIPS.

  A NEWLY ARRANGED AND ENTIRELY REVISED EDITION,
  BY F. K. J. SHENTON.

  WITH NEW PLANS AND ILLUSTRATIONS, AND AN INDEX OF
  PRINCIPAL OBJECTS.

  [Illustration]

  CRYSTAL PALACE LIBRARY;
  CRYSTAL PALACE, SYDENHAM.

  1859.


  LONDON:
  ROBERT K. BURT, PRINTER,
  HOLBORN HILL.


PART I.

PRELIMINARY AND INTRODUCTION.


  NOTE.--This Division of the Guide-Book contains the _Index to
  Principal Objects_; and the _Company’s Official Announcements_; with
  the _Refreshment Tariff_; an _Introduction_ to the General Guide-book;
  and an _Account of the Building_.


ADVERTISEMENT.

  The arrangement of the present edition has been made with the view of
  simplifying, as much as possible, the reference to particular objects;
  as well as of enabling the visitor to regularly explore with advantage
  every portion of the Crystal Palace. The splendid Botanical
  Collection, now thoroughly acclimatised, and very complete, is
  described as fully as the nature of the book will permit.


PREFACE TO ORIGINAL EDITION.

The following pages are presented to the public as a brief but connected
and carefully prepared account of the exterior and interior of the
Crystal Palace. It is believed that no important or interesting object
in connexion with the Exhibition is without its record in this little
volume; although, in so vast a collection of works of architecture,
sculpture, and industrial manufacture, it is clearly impossible to
compress within the limits of a General Hand-book all the information
which is necessary to satisfy the visitor desirous of precise and
accurate knowledge of the numberless objects offered to his
contemplation.

A general and comprehensive view of the Crystal Palace will
unquestionably be obtained by the perusal of the present manual. The
Hand-books of the respective departments will supply all the detailed
information necessary to fill in the broad and rapidly drawn outlines.
In them, Literature will faithfully serve as the handmaiden to Art, and
complete the great auxiliary work of education which it is the first aim
of the Crystal Palace to effect.

These Hand-books are published at prices varying from three-pence to
eighteen-pence, according to the size of the volume. The lowest possible
price has been affixed to one and all. It may be fearlessly asserted
that books containing the same amount of entertainment, information, and
instruction, it would be difficult to purchase at a more reasonable rate
elsewhere.

[Illustration: PRINTED BY R. K. BURT, HOLBORN HILL, CITY.]


CONVEYANCE BY ROAD AND RAIL.

The trains start punctually from the London Bridge and Pimlico Stations
at the times advertised in the official bills to be found in various
parts of the building; but special trains are put on always as occasion
may require.

The shortest route from London, by carriage, will be found marked on the
accompanying map. The ordinary entrances from the road are at the South
and Central Transepts. Entrances are also provided opposite Sydenham
Church, and at the bottom of the Park, below the Grand Lake and Extinct
Animals.

Omnibuses leave Gracechurch Street for the Crystal Palace at intervals
from 10 in the morning. An omnibus also leaves the Paddington Station at
a quarter to 11 A.M. Also one from the Kings and Key, Fleet Street, at
12 o’clock, and one from the Green Man, Oxford Street, at the same time.
Omnibuses leave the City for Camberwell every 10 minutes. Conveyance can
also be procured from Peckham and Clapham. On fête days omnibuses run at
frequent intervals, at times according to the season.

Crystal Palace and Lower Norwood to Oxford Street, _viâ_ Norwood,
Brixton Road, Elephant and Castle, Westminster Road, Whitehall, Waterloo
Place, and Regent Street--(_c_) green; (_m_) Norwood.