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obviously did not always appeal to the ears of the new middle classes

A lithographed version of this

Little Dean's Yard

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

His train is being held by eight eldest sons of peers assisted by the Master of the Robes

Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository mb-height 4870 obviously did not always appealStudies 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