Earthworm Size:S: 36 x 28cm North view of Marshalsea prison

North view of Marshalsea prison on Borough High Street

This relates first to the bad weather during the previous month of December 1876 when nearly six inches of rain fell in the one month

the first running of the Monaco Grand Prix

became the London residence of the Duke of Wellington when he acquired it in 1817

Original is oil on canvas 76x91

Earthworm Size:S: 36 x 28cm North view of Marshalsea prisonPlate 16 from the paper 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, the barnacle, and the earthworm, which impregnate themselves; though the last from copulating, appear mutually to impregnate one another', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 113 (1823), pp. 140 151. Figure 1 shows a back view of the earthworm, x2 magnification; figure 2 shows the same worm under dissection, x2