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Image 1: Sketch of cone of Mount Pelée showing changes between November 1902 and January 1903. By [?W M Hadden, Major, Royal Engineers], 1903 [GSM/DR/Ft/S/11]
Image 2: Shrapnel and other debris from the German bomb which damaged the Geological Museum at Exhibition Road at 11.47 pm on 10 September 1940 [2008.8]
Image 3: Robert Etheridge (1819-1903). [P552080]