Five specimens of reptiles

Zoological studies of five types of lizards and snakes. Figure 1 “The Rattle-Snake from the West Indies; taken from one of those preserv’d in the Museum of the Royal Society.� Figure 2 “A West Indian serpent; taken from the original in the same Museum.� Figure 3 “A Lizard from Sir Hans Sloane’s Cabinet�. Figure 4 chameleon, “The Camelion; from the Royal Society.� Figure 5 “A Flying Lizard from Amboina in the East Indies; from my own collection...� [Ambon in the Moluka Islands, Indonesia, therefore Draco linneatus?]

Plate 9 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature, by Richard Bradley (London, 1721). The figures are represented as being on a single piece of paper pinned to the darkened background of the plate. Inscribed “Plate IX. T.Cole sculp.“

Richard Bradley (1688-1732) English botanist and writer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. Figure 1 on this plate is a specimen from the Royal Society’s Repository.