Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs mb-code NTS_BROE_73_755 having just tossed a policeman

having just tossed a policeman into the air

Partial view of London Bridge

in his fireman's helmet

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

Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs mb-code NTS_BROE_73_755 having just tossed a policemanPlate 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