Snakes and a cricket from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' mb-code 1238730 'Peaches and Grapes'

'Peaches and Grapes'

Has been in my cellar Four-and-Twenty years come last Christmas

Driven either by Jack Sears or Richard Thompson

(Picture) Viv Anderson out muscled in the air by a Coventry

and from there to Universal Suffrage

Snakes and a cricket from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' mb-code 1238730 'Peaches and Grapes'Snakes and a cricket from thesis XVI 'Surinamensia grilliana' by Petro Sundio, 1748, published in volume 1 of Amoenitates academicae (Stockholm, 1749). 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 students at Uppsala University. Original: engraving. 1749