'The Horned Fish; and the Sea Scorpion' [Longhorn cowfish and Short-spined sea scorpion] Product:Postcard 1943 - February 6

1943 - February 6

500ft 30 miles distant'

Tower of London under siege during the riots of November 1830

View of Trevandrum Observatory from the north west

'The Horned Fish; and the Sea Scorpion' [Longhorn cowfish and Short-spined sea scorpion] Product:Postcard 1943 - February 6Marine zoological studies of two fishes: the Longhorn cowfish Lactoria cornuta, a main image with two uncoloured views of the upper body and underside; with a view of a female Short spined sea scorpion Myoxocephalus scorpius shown with roe or eggs. Plate 284 from chapter 74 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: