Guinea pig and 'Maltese mushroom' from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' Size:L: 100 x 80cm Norwood is now in the

Norwood is now in the London borough of Ealing

This was a period during which the newly burgeoning middle classes had few problems in engaging servants

View of The Observatory in Southwark

showing the trying of prisoners at the Bar

Guinea pig and 'Maltese mushroom' from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' Size:L: 100 x 80cm Norwood is now in theGuinea pig (Mus porcellus) from thesis LIX by Johanes Just. Nauman, 1754, and Fungus melitensis from thesis LXV on the 'Maltese mushroom' by Johanne Pfeiffer, 1755, published in volume 4 of Amoenitates academicae (Stockholm, 1759). Amoenitates academicae ('Academic delights', 10 volumes, 1749 1790) was published in Carl Linnaeus's name, and edited by him (vols 1 7) and J C D Schreber (vols 8 10). It consisted of theses presented and defended by