Oak bush-cricket legs mb-code 1150751 showing the architect John Nash

showing the architect John Nash spiked by the seat of his trousers on the spire of All Souls Church

Will Smith

24th December 1940

Such was the stench from the river that parliamentary proceedings were interrupted

Oak bush-cricket legs mb-code 1150751 showing the architect John NashPlate 21 figures 10 13 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. Four leg details from a specimen of Oak bush cricket (Locusta varia) at x36 and x625 magnification. Original: watercolour on paper. 1816