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  • A variety of insect life including beetles, wasps and dragonflies. Engraving by R. Scott after T. Brown.
  • A variety of insects including beetles, moths, wasps and flies. Engraving by R. Scott after T. Brown.
  • Six insects and two spiders, including a cicada adult and nymph, a butterfly and two gnats. Gouache painting.
  • A snapdragon plant (Antirrhinum orontium) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • A bael tree (Aegle marmelos) with sectioned fruit, a dancefly (Empis livida) and three worms (Enchelis species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1804, after J. Ihle.
  • Thirteen flies (Sylvicolæ species). Coloured etching by M. Harris, ca. 1766.