'Banksian hipparchia' [Banks's brown butterfly] Finish:Stretched Borough High Street

Borough High Street

Gladstone and Lord Derby can be seen pulling up short of the hazard

4th June 1964

barges and rowing boats on the Thames

for talks on his next film

'Banksian hipparchia' [Banks's brown butterfly] Finish:Stretched Borough High StreetEntomological studies of Banks's brown butterfly, Heteronympha banksii, an insect native to Australia. Views from above and below. Plate 10 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn Engraved & Published by Rd. P. Nodder Feby 1814.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in