Grasshopper legs bedroom scene The scene is described below

The scene is described below the image in English and French

Sir James Cockle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1865

Cowley is now in the London borough of Hillingdon

with ornamental surround containing scrolls

Grasshopper legs bedroom scene The scene is described belowPlate 21 figures 7 9 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. Three leg details from a specimen of British grasshopper (Acrydium biguttulum). Pencil inscription below: 'Small Common Grasshopper of the Garden' [?] and in ink 'magnified 2500 times'. Not signed. Royal Society stamp