Saw-scaled viper Ferrari 250 LM apparently in the President's Office

apparently in the President's Office of the Royal Society at Carlton House Terrace

A knife grinder sharpening a knife on Whitehall

Plate 48 figure 2 from the paper 'On the placenta'

Plate 19 for the paper 'Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales'

Saw-scaled viper Ferrari 250 LM apparently in the President's OfficeFull body study of a Saw scaled viper ('Echis carinata') with two head studies and one body detail showing scalation, including the saw scales from which the reptile takes its common name, includes details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 12 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on