Grasshopper legs Finish:Stretched late 15th century

late 15th century

Through the murk can be seen London Bridge and the dome of St

Donaghadee harbour in Northern Ireland

Newly created Viscount Ossington

Grasshopper legs Finish:Stretched late 15th centuryPlate 21 figures 7 9 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. Three leg details from a specimen of British grasshopper (Acrydium biguttulum). Pencil inscription below: 'Small Common Grasshopper of the Garden' [?] and in ink 'magnified 2500 times'. Not signed. Royal Society stamp