The 'red-headed wood-pecker' and the 'water oak' Size:S: 36 x 28cm Study of the distended stomach

Study of the distended stomach of a dungong (Dugong dugon)

Monument to Sir Christopher Hatton in old St Paul's Cathedral

This should not prevent our appreciation of such a concentration of character as in the Society's Lord Kelvin

pikes and axes

The 'red-headed wood-pecker' and the 'water oak' Size:S: 36 x 28cm Study of the distended stomach'Picus capite toto rubro', the red headed wood pecker, perched on the trunk of 'Quercus folio non serrato', the water oak (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Melanerpes erythrocephalus, the red headed woodpecker; Quercus nigra, the water oak). Plate 20 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733.