Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs mb-code NTS_BROE_73_755 posed on a tree branch

posed on a tree branch

'The Great-Little Random

one of which was Manning

in his fireman's helmet

Panoramic view of the funeral procession of Queen Mary II

Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs mb-code NTS_BROE_73_755 posed on a tree branchPlate 18 figures 1 11 from the paper 'Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 322 330. Eleven views and details of legs from the Bluebottle (Musca vomitoria) and Fever fly (Bibio febrilis) at x100 and x6,400 magnification. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Royal Society stamp verso, with an inscription