Lumbricus marinus [Lugworm] dissected mb-width 5898 located at Charing Cross

located at Charing Cross

showing the Royal Greenwich Observatory to the left

The building was erected in 1825-1829 on the east side of St Martin's le Grand (subsequently designated the Old General Post Office to distinguish it from the one opened in 1910 on the west side of King Edward Street)

Old Buildings

Lumbricus marinus [Lugworm] dissected mb-width 5898 located at Charing CrossPlate 3 figure 2 from the paper 'An account of the circulation of the blood in the class Vermes of Linnaeus, and the principle explained in which it differs from that in the higher classes', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 1 12. Inscribed uper left 'laid open on the Back between the Branchiae.' The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.