Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs mb-code NTS_BROE_73_755 some quarter of a million

some quarter of a million workers in Lancashire were out of work and fresh sources of cotton

Rod Stewart of The Faces with his fiancee Deidre Harrington at Heathrow before leaving for Paris

Front view of the Pantheon

Panoramic view of the funeral procession of Queen Mary II

posed on a tree branch

Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs mb-code NTS_BROE_73_755 some quarter of a millionPlate 18 figures 1 11 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. Eleven views and details of legs from the Bluebottle (Musca vomitoria) and Fever fly (Bibio febrilis) at x100 and x6,400 magnification. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Royal Society stamp verso, with an inscription