Fish and starfish in the Royal Society's Repository Size:L: 90 x 60cm showing crowds gathered to watch

showing crowds gathered to watch a hanging

S Algerine is also marked

with the River Thames on the right

' This painting is reproduced as part of Catalogus plantarum

Fish and starfish in the Royal Society's Repository Size:L: 90 x 60cm showing crowds gathered to watchStudies of a 'Square Acarauna' (brought from Surinam, and known by mariners as 'The Old Wife'); a 'Mailed Fish of Brasile' (Brazil) 'Cataphractus Schonveldii' in Grew's description; upper and lower views of a 'Smooth Star Fish or Sea Pad, Stella marina laevior sent from the East Indies'; and a 'Crowned Star Fish. Stella marina coronalis taken in the Danish Sea'. Table 8 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the