A view of the initiation showing Jack Spratt, a Methodist theologian from the Peace River district in full uniform. Note the bee'd nest attached to his back.
This is one of the earliest publications by zoologist and explorer, Sir John Richardson. His Notice of the Fishes was included as an appendix in Sir John Franklin’s Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21,…