Great diving beetle legs Size:L: 90 x 60cm St Luke's Hospital

St Luke's Hospital

people come and go

competing in cars and on motorcycles in the years between the wars

The building is on the site of the former residence of the Bishops of London

The Duke of Wellington riding past the Achilles statue in Hyde Park

Great diving beetle legs Size:L: 90 x 60cm St Luke's HospitalPlate 20 figures 1 16 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. Sixteen views and details of legs from a male specimen of the Great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) at x25, x100, x400, x900 and x40,000 magnification. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Royal Society stamp verso.