'Yellow-legged ascalaphus' [Yellow owl-fly] mb-height 2940 Newington Butts and Newington Turnpike

Newington Butts and Newington Turnpike

The River Thames from Richmond Hill

showing figures looking at the exhibits in the Zollverein Department

This 'telescopic philanthropy' was epitomised by Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House

'Yellow-legged ascalaphus' [Yellow owl-fly] mb-height 2940 Newington Butts and Newington TurnpikeEntomological study of the Yellow owl fly Suhpalacsa flavipes an insect native to Australia. Plate 20 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn Engraved & Published by R. P. Nodder. 1814.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. Original: copperplate engraving. 1814