'Helix fontana' snail shell mb-width 3604 by Gideon Mantell

by Gideon Mantell

William Heygate

Actor Alan Bennion seen here in make up at the BBC Lime Grove studio

Royal Society stamp verso with an inscription in ink 'Fig: 1

A group of fans listening to a group on stage at the main stage

'Helix fontana' snail shell mb-width 3604 by Gideon MantellPlate 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.