Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository mb-height 4870 Little Dean's Yard

Little Dean's Yard

'The Battle of Temple Bar'

Mrs Disraeli on the right runs a Baby Farm

His train is being held by eight eldest sons of peers assisted by the Master of the Robes

South-east view of the Church of St Michael

Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository mb-height 4870 Little Dean's YardStudies of five whelk ('wilk') shells: a 'Square Wilk' ('Buccina Rhomboidea'); a 'Long Square Wilk'; a 'Thick Lipp'd Wilk'; a 'Triangular Wilk'; and an 'Inverted Wilk Snail' ('Bucchicochlea'). Table 10 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge, by Nehemiah Grew (second printing: London, 1686). The Royal Society's