'Helix fontana' snail shell mb-width 3604 by Gideon Mantell

by Gideon Mantell

Refreshments at railway stations differ between the first and second class refreshment rooms

Actor Alan Bennion seen here in make up at the BBC Lime Grove studio

William Heygate

'Helix fontana' snail shell mb-width 3604 by Gideon MantellPlate 2 figures 1 4 from the paper "An account of some minute British shells, either not duly observed, or totally unnoticed by Authors. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks", by John Lightfoot, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 76 (1786), pp. 160 170. Four figures of a freshwater snail shell discovered in clear spring water on the underside of rotten leaves near Bullstrode in Buckinghamshire. Figures 1 2 show the shell at life size.