A page from the Dresden codex, Maya manuscript Size:S: 60 x 45cm ' George Bentham was elected

' George Bentham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862

'Portrait of a Lady'

Canadian actor-manager and dramatist

Volume 7 (London

c1894 (1964)

A page from the Dresden codex, Maya manuscript Size:S: 60 x 45cm ' George Bentham was electedA page from the Dresden Maya Manuscript, 1901. The Dresden Codex is held in the Schsische Landesbibliothek, the state library in Dresden, Germany. It is the finest surviving example of works of Mayan literature written on paper made from bark. Many existed at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America but the vast majority were destroyed by the Spaniards. A print from The World's History, A Survey of Man's Record, by Dr HF Helmolt,