'The White Fulica' Size:S: 36 x 28cm All Hallows-by-the-Tower Church

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Half-length portrait of William Clift

the left rests on a brown leather-bound volume of his own stellar observations [eventually published posthumously as Atlas Coelestis

He served as its Treasurer from 1666 to 1679

cannot understand why anyone would wish to read about the sport of prize fighting

'The White Fulica' Size:S: 36 x 28cm All Hallows-by-the-Tower ChurchOrnithological study of a Lord Howe Swamphen or White Gallinule (Porphyrio albus), an extinct bird native to Lord Howe Island, Australia. Plate 27 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The body is about the size of a domestic fowl. The shoulders are furnished with a small crooked spine This bird is the only species of its genus yet known of a white colour' The plate is