Bottlenose dolphin Finish:Stretched On the left a rat

On the left a rat with the head of John Smith is attacking sacks

in each hand he holds a goose by the neck

in Bethnal Green

' Plate 2 from the publication Icones piscium

headed 'Damp

Bottlenose dolphin Finish:Stretched On the left a ratPlate 18 for the paper 'Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales', by John Hunter, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 77 part 1 1787 pp. 371 450. Two views of an animal described by Hunter as a bottle nose whale or Delphinus delphis [the latter is the present name of the short beaked common dolphin]. The main figure shows the animal's right side, with a water spout indicating the position of the blowhole; a detail of the