'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Chamberlain's Wharf the drinking habits of the

the drinking habits of the lower classes was subject to a great deal of discussion and argument during the 1860s and 1870s

showing Church Street in the foreground

View of the Guildhall with the giants Gog and Magog on either side

'Crossing the Brook'

'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Chamberlain's Wharf the drinking habits of theStudy of leaf cutter ants, a tarantula spider and other South American insects. Detail from plate 18 of the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Surinam in South America from 1699 1701, where she recorded and collected butterflies and other natural history specimens.