Two specimens of crustaceans Eighty Years' War Freddie Dixon's Riley in action

Freddie Dixon's Riley in action on the banking at Brooklands

view of City Road Basin

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I with a Latin inscription below

across the graveyard

Two specimens of crustaceans Eighty Years' War Freddie Dixon's Riley in actionMarine zoological studies of the crustaceans Nymphon gracile (figure 1) and Nymphon hirtum (figure 2). Plate 19 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). Figure 1 is described as simply: 'Inhabits the British sea every where.' T William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. Original: copperplate