'The hand of a boy with a distempered skin, and a branch of the common Service Tree' mb-code 1150593 East view of St Leonard

East view of St Leonard

Britannia crowns Sir Rowland Hill with a laurel wreath

This relates to the New Arctic Expedition at the start of which two ships

Plate 1 from the publication Icones piscium

'The hand of a boy with a distempered skin, and a branch of the common Service Tree' mb-code 1150593 East view of St LeonardA combined medical and botanical study, showing the hand of an unnamed son of Edward Lambert holding a branch of the wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis). The work had details of a cut specimen of the fruit and its seed, with a detail of the child's skin. Plate 212 from chapter 2 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The boy was the