Grasshopper legs Finish:Stretched late 15th century

late 15th century

1st January 1970

chemical retort and apothocaries' jars also form background material

gloves and handkerchiefs

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