The 'rice-bird' Poor Law Board Botanical study of the 'Rubus'

Botanical study of the 'Rubus' (blackberry bramble)

One of their key aims was to champion the cause of the traditional aristocracy in order to promote in turn their championing of the working classes

Queen Street

he served as its President from 1878 to 1883

'Seated Dancer'

The 'rice-bird' Poor Law Board Botanical study of the 'Rubus'Bird identified by Catesby as 'Hortulanus caroliniensis', the rice bird (modern scientific name: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, the bobolink), perched on a stalk of rice, Oryza sativa. Plate 14 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733. Original: etching. 1731