'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Chamberlain's Wharf the drinking habits of the

the drinking habits of the lower classes was subject to a great deal of discussion and argument during the 1860s and 1870s

is in full ceremonial costume and also bearing a crimson bag containing medals for the coronation of King George IV

Elizabeth of Woodville

6th November 1869

'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Chamberlain's Wharf the drinking habits of theStudy of leaf cutter ants, a tarantula spider and other South American insects. Detail from plate 18 of the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Surinam in South America from 1699 1701, where she recorded and collected butterflies and other natural history specimens.