Insects in the Royal Society's Repository Finish:Float frame Trees damaged by a storm

Trees damaged by a storm of 15th October

on the wall hangs a representation of a slave bazaar in Bagdad

Joanna Lumley

The Ratcliffe Fire of July 1794 was the worst fire disaster to affect London between the Great Fire of London and the Blitz

4th July 1977

Insects in the Royal Society's Repository Finish:Float frame Trees damaged by a stormStudies of a 'Fly Nest'; a 'Wild Bee'; a Lanthorne Flie' ('Lanthorn Fly, of Peru two or three of these fasten'd to a stick will give sufficient light to those that travail or walk in the Night'); a 'Nocoonaca' ('may be called The Great West Indian Goat Chafer'); the 'Lesser Bull Chafer'; a 'Great Gogle Ey'd Beetle' ('Carabus Indiae Orientalis maximus'); a 'Long Gogle Ey'd Beetle of the East Indies'; and a 'Thick Gogle Ey'd Beetle of the East Indies'