Mytilaspis pomorum [Mussel scale] mb-copyright Alvaro Tapia Children play on the river

Children play on the river bank and Battersea Mill can be seen in the background

Map of the City of London and the City of Westminster c1563

View of the Sessions House

The first railway in Russia was opened in 1837

Mytilaspis pomorum [Mussel scale] mb-copyright Alvaro Tapia Children play on the riverPlate 24, 'Monograph of the Coccidae of the British Isles', by Robert Newstead (Ray Society, 1900 1902). Figures 1 2 Mytilaspis pomorum, views of the insect on the branch of an apple tree, natural size. Signed below 'R. Newstead ad nat del.', cropped and initialled 'R. N.' A replacement illustration for the figures on the subsequent whole plate. An attached sheet is inscribed in pencil 'Mytilaspis pomorum Bouche, Retd. 15 May 1900'. Original: pencil