'Helix fontana' snail shell mb-width 3604 and boat masts behind

and boat masts behind

Statues on Holborn Viaduct

by Gideon Mantell

Royal Society stamp verso with an inscription in ink 'Fig: 1

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

'Helix fontana' snail shell mb-width 3604 and boat masts behindPlate 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.