Earthworm Size:S: 36 x 28cm 'A Temple Macaroni'

'A Temple Macaroni'

Three snails crawl along the edge of the pond

It had previously been barred by the Crimes Act (Ireland)

Original is oil on canvas 76x91

2nd June 1964

Earthworm Size:S: 36 x 28cm 'A Temple Macaroni'Plate 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