William John Burchell : the materials of a lecture delivered before the British Association in the Town Hall, Cape Town, on Thursday evening, August 17, 1905
A 1907 London lecture record by Edward Bagnall Poulton on the naturalist William John Burchell, written from materials first delivered to the British Association in Cape Town in 1905. The single picture is a frontispiece portrait of Burchell in three-quarter view, drawn in fine pencil-like line with soft shading on the jacket and hair, captioned beneath with his name and the date 1816. A designer could take its quiet, restrained portrait manner, with generous margins and a small centred caption, as a model for understated biographical plates.
