Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs mb-code NTS_BROE_73_755 Rod Stewart of The Faces

Rod Stewart of The Faces with his fiancee Deidre Harrington at Heathrow before leaving for Paris

in his fireman's helmet

some quarter of a million workers in Lancashire were out of work and fresh sources of cotton

and now stands next to Kilburn High Road Station

Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs mb-code NTS_BROE_73_755 Rod Stewart of The FacesPlate 18 figures 1 11 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. Eleven views and details of legs from the Bluebottle (Musca vomitoria) and Fever fly (Bibio febrilis) at x100 and x6,400 magnification. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Royal Society stamp verso, with an inscription