A specimen of bat Color Image The ceremony of laying the

The ceremony of laying the first stone of Blackfriars Bridge

3rd October 1981

Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster from the River Thames

South Square

A specimen of bat Color Image The ceremony of laying theZoological studies of a bat 'From Mr, Danderidge's Cabinet'. Figures 1 rear view of the animal, with wings spread. Figure 2 front view. Plate 13 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature, by Richard Bradley (London, 1721). Inscribed 'Plate XIII. T. Cole sculp.' Richard Bradley (1688 1732) English botanist and writer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. Original: copperplate engraving. 1721