Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository Finish:Float frame Vaults beneath Leathersellers' Hall

Vaults beneath Leathersellers' Hall

views of normal and parasitised female

looking through the lens of a camera during shooting of their new film Help

30th March 1969

Interior view of Somerset House

Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository Finish:Float frame Vaults beneath Leathersellers' HallStudies 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