Twelve specimens of foraminifera Product:Postcard Sir Thomas More and Catherine

Sir Thomas More and Catherine Howard

Drapers' Almshouses

Garry Thompson

28th October 1976

This relates to a riot staged by Irish Catholics in Birkenhead during October 1862

Twelve specimens of foraminifera Product:Postcard Sir Thomas More and CatherineA composite illustration built up from individual plates within the book Conchyliologie systematique, et classification methodique des coquilles by Pierre Denys de Montford (2 volumes, Paris, 1808 1810). Each specimen of foraminifera [single celled marine organisms with shells] is inscribed with De Montford's 'genre' number and a brief caption. Each appears with an indication of the actual size of the specimen, drawn alongside the magnified