The 'blew jay' and the 'bay-leaved smilax' Product:Canvas In the foreground a water

In the foreground a water vessel can be seen on the River Thames

Inscribed: 'Tabula XXXXI

it was believed by many in authority in England that the agitation in Ireland was caused only by a very few men of violence and that

Abraham Newland (Chief Cashier) appears through the door

Botanical study of great water reed grass (Gramen palust

The 'blew jay' and the 'bay-leaved smilax' Product:Canvas In the foreground a water'Pica glandaria caerulea cristata', the blew jay crested jay, perched on a branch of the 'Smilax laevis lauri folio baccis nigris', the bay leaved smilax (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Cyanocitta cristata, the blue jay; Smilax laurifolia, the laurel greenbriar). Plate 15 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal