Grasshopper legs bedroom scene Drawing of the state lottery

Drawing of the state lottery taking place in Coopers' Hall

Sir James Cockle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1865

The mythical giants

South Bank

on the right is a snuff and cigar warehouse

Grasshopper legs bedroom scene Drawing of the state lotteryPlate 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