Two specimens of crustaceans mb-width 998 22nd August 1983

22nd August 1983

In the background is Sadler's Wells Theatre with green awning

British soldier

A mighty hippopotamus displays its huge teeth

Two specimens of crustaceans mb-width 998 22nd August 1983Marine zoological studies of the crustaceans Nymphon gracile (figure 1) and Nymphon hirtum (figure 2). Plate 19 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). Figure 1 is described as simply: 'Inhabits the British sea every where.' T William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. Original: copperplate