The little hawk mb-artistname Janine Graf People being presented to Queen

People being presented to Queen Victoria in the drawing-room

Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662)

This illustrates how the burgeoning railway network was encroaching steadily into previously quiet rural areas in the 1870s

With a copy figure of a dugong skull by Georges Cuvier

The little hawk mb-artistname Janine Graf People being presented to QueenBird identified by Catesby as 'Accipiter minor', the little hawk (modern scientific name: Falco sparverius, the American kestrel). Plate 5 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. Original: etching. 1731