The little owl Sargeant 'How to Get Money'

'How to Get Money'

Battle Bridge is the area now known as King's Cross

View with a cleaner sweeping up

On 19th April 1861 Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports

View of Daniel Defoe in the pillory at Temple Bar

The little owl Sargeant 'How to Get Money'Bird identified by Catesby as 'Noctua aurita minor', the little owl (modern scientific name: Megascops asio, the eastern screech owl). Plate 7 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