'Nautilus melo...' [two specimens of foraminifera] rope-flyer 9th March 1967

9th March 1967

Colfe's Almshouses in Lewisham

Wedding Day of secretary Jennifer Mary Jones & motor mechanic James Baker at the Tower of London

The Endeavour

George Peacock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1818

'Nautilus melo...' [two specimens of foraminifera] rope-flyer 9th March 1967Copy of plate 24 from from Testacea microscopica aliaque minuta ex generibus Argonauta et Nautilu by Leopold von Fichtel and J. P. C. von Moll (New edition, Vienna, 1803. Inscribed below with captioning details. 'Nautilus melo var[chi and beta] Alveolina Melo' The two foraminifera [single celled marine organisms with shells] in the illustration are reproduced under magnification, in section, and at actual size. In modern taxonomy, varieties of Borelis