Guinea pig and 'Maltese mushroom' from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' Size:L: 100 x 80cm This was a period during

This was a period during which the newly burgeoning middle classes had few problems in engaging servants

his right hand holding a pen and resting on a table poised above on a sheaf of paper

'Europe in masquerade

James Bradley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718

Referred to in the text as 'The Cacajao'

Guinea pig and 'Maltese mushroom' from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' Size:L: 100 x 80cm This was a period duringGuinea pig (Mus porcellus) from thesis LIX by Johanes Just. Nauman, 1754, and Fungus melitensis from thesis LXV on the 'Maltese mushroom' by Johanne Pfeiffer, 1755, published in volume 4 of Amoenitates academicae (Stockholm, 1759). Amoenitates academicae ('Academic delights', 10 volumes, 1749 1790) was published in Carl Linnaeus's name, and edited by him (vols 1 7) and J C D Schreber (vols 8 10). It consisted of theses presented and defended by