Specimens of Euplectella [Venus's flower basket] mb-height 2856 3rd May 1969

3rd May 1969

the Princess of Wales and Mansfield

On 24th March 1860 a treaty was signed by Napoleon III and the King of Sardinia concerning the annexation of Savoy and Nice to France

by Sir William Jardine (Edinburgh

looking towards London Bridge

Specimens of Euplectella [Venus's flower basket] mb-height 2856 3rd May 1969Marine zoological studies of types of the sponge Euplectella. Plate 4 figures 1 4 from the monograph On Euplectella aspergillum. Also on a new form of globigerina; phosphorescent animalcules, by William Chimmo (London, Taylor and Francis, 1878). The plate is inscribed 'Fig. 1. Euplectella (cucumber) very rare. Fig. 2. True Regadra (Spanish) probably Aspergillum. Fig. 3,4. Primary state of Euplectella, nat. size. W. Chimo del. C. L. G. lith. Mintern