Fossilised Ichthyosaur paddle Size:XL: 100 x 75cm The future King Edward VIII

The future King Edward VIII visits Windsor House

Amphistegina javanica and Heterostegina clathrata

in Regents Park

Inscribed above 'Dessin de la Chaloupe et machine qui a servie a l'experience faite sur le canal de Manzanares le 1er Marz 1784'

floribus albis

Fossilised Ichthyosaur paddle Size:XL: 100 x 75cm The future King Edward VIIIPlate 16 from the paper 'Some farther account of the fossil remains of an animal, of which a description was given to the Society in 1814', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 318 321. The specimen was from the Lyme Regis area and in the collection of 'Mr Johnson', eg James Johnson of Bristol. Therefore collected by him or possibly by Mary Anning, from whom he bought fossils. Original: ink on paper.