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Image number: RS.10412
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Whelk shells in the Royal Society’s Repository
Date
1681
Object type
Image reference
Library reference
18848
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 280mm
width (print): 170mm
width (print): 170mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Studies 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 museum collection, or Repository, was established in the 1660s. It was intended to be “a General Collection of all the Effects of Arts, and the Common, or Monstrous Works of Nature”, for use by the Fellows in their attempts to understand and classify the natural world. The first catalogue of the collection was produced by Nehemiah Grew in 1681; it was reissued in 1686 and 1694.
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 museum collection, or Repository, was established in the 1660s. It was intended to be “a General Collection of all the Effects of Arts, and the Common, or Monstrous Works of Nature”, for use by the Fellows in their attempts to understand and classify the natural world. The first catalogue of the collection was produced by Nehemiah Grew in 1681; it was reissued in 1686 and 1694.
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