'The Variegated Lizard' mb-height 5871 showing the interior of a

showing the interior of a prison with the daughter and son visiting their father

POSITIVE ABOVE AND NEGATIVE BELOW THE VARNISHED PLATE

considered this mutiny - as did Punch

8th September 1966

'The Variegated Lizard' mb-height 5871 showing the interior of aZoological study of the Lace Monitor (Varanus varius) a lizard native to Australia, shown in a landscape that includes a water lily. Plate 38 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'This Lizard approaches so extremely near to the Lacerta Monitor of Linnaeus, or Monitory Lizard, as to make it doubtful whether it be not in reality a variety of that species' The plate is