'Helix fontana' snail shell Finish:Stretched Street scene with horse drawn

Street scene with horse drawn vehicles and pedestrians

Monument to Earl Howe

This cartoon is accompanied by a 'letter' from one of these bookmakers who says that unless he is compensated for the loss of his livelihood

or the telling of stories generally

'Helix fontana' snail shell Finish:Stretched Street scene with horse drawnPlate 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.