Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository mb-height 4870 South-east view of the Church

South-east view of the Church of St Michael

Little Dean's Yard

Crowds milling around the market stalls in the run up to Christmas 1960

The dome of St Paul's can be seen on the other side of the River Thames

obviously did not always appeal to the ears of the new middle classes

Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository mb-height 4870 South-east view of the ChurchStudies of five whelk ('wilk') shells: a 'Square Wilk' ('Buccina Rhomboidea'); a 'Long Square Wilk'; a 'Thick Lipp'd Wilk'; a 'Triangular Wilk'; and an 'Inverted Wilk Snail' ('Bucchicochlea'). Table 10 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge, by Nehemiah Grew (second printing: London, 1686). The Royal Society's