Insects in the Royal Society's Repository Finish:Float frame 4th July 1977

4th July 1977

The Ratcliffe Fire of July 1794 was the worst fire disaster to affect London between the Great Fire of London and the Blitz

or in the gallery above

Mike Smith and Lenny Davidson

Insects in the Royal Society's Repository Finish:Float frame 4th July 1977Studies of a 'Fly Nest'; a 'Wild Bee'; a Lanthorne Flie' ('Lanthorn Fly, of Peru two or three of these fasten'd to a stick will give sufficient light to those that travail or walk in the Night'); a 'Nocoonaca' ('may be called The Great West Indian Goat Chafer'); the 'Lesser Bull Chafer'; a 'Great Gogle Ey'd Beetle' ('Carabus Indiae Orientalis maximus'); a 'Long Gogle Ey'd Beetle of the East Indies'; and a 'Thick Gogle Ey'd Beetle of the East Indies'