'gizzard of the Soland goose...' blindness onto the pitch for a

onto the pitch for a league match at St James Park

He served as its Treasurer from 1666 to 1679

Lance Bombardier Ed Ferguson of Glasgow

The illustrations correspond to figures 1-2 and 5-6 [although here in a different order] on plate 10 and 11 of the published paper 'Account of several phaenomena observed during the Ingress of Venus into the solar disc' by William Hirst

'gizzard of the Soland goose...' blindness onto the pitch for aPlate 11 from the paper 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 102 (1812), pp. 394 404. Section of the gizzard of the Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus). The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso