'Nautilus lacustris' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Seymour Lucas

Seymour Lucas

'The Donkey Mare

View of the River Thames at low tide near Vauxhall Bridge

Beneath the image is a satirical poem

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'Nautilus lacustris' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Seymour LucasPlate 1 figures 1 8 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. Seven figures of a freshwater Nautilus. Figures 1 2 show the creature at life size. Figures 3 5 are magnified views of the animal and its shell in different orientations. Figures 6 7 are