Agriculturalists at the Exhibition from The Illustrated London News (19 July 1851): 101. “He finds it very hot; but believes they say it is hotter in the gallery; and wonders why Mr. Paxton don't find some means of cooling the air, icing the fountains, or driving a cold blast through the organs, or something of that sort.”
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