Specimens of Euplectella [Venus's flower basket] mb-height 2856 On 24th March 1860 a

On 24th March 1860 a treaty was signed by Napoleon III and the King of Sardinia concerning the annexation of Savoy and Nice to France

by Sir William Jardine (Edinburgh

with man outside and figures in doorway

a pensioner

Specimens of Euplectella [Venus's flower basket] mb-height 2856 On 24th March 1860 aMarine zoological studies of types of the sponge Euplectella. Plate 4 figures 1 4 from the monograph On Euplectella aspergillum. Also on a new form of globigerina; phosphorescent animalcules, by William Chimmo (London, Taylor and Francis, 1878). The plate is inscribed 'Fig. 1. Euplectella (cucumber) very rare. Fig. 2. True Regadra (Spanish) probably Aspergillum. Fig. 3,4. Primary state of Euplectella, nat. size. W. Chimo del. C. L. G. lith. Mintern