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Crowds milling around the market stalls in the run up to Christmas 1960

hillclimbs

A lithographed version of this

South-east view of the Church of St Michael

The dome of St Paul's can be seen on the other side of the River Thames

Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository mb-height 4870 Crowds milling around the marketStudies 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