'Octopus macropus' [Atlantic white-spotted octopus] William Whetenhall 19th May 1967

19th May 1967

Evelyn Ellis driving an 1895 Panhard

A war veteran in the traditional red uniform of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea sits reading from a newspaper to a young boy

Plate 34 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever

'Octopus macropus' [Atlantic white-spotted octopus] William Whetenhall 19th May 1967Marine zoological study of the Atlantic white spotted octopus (Octopus macropus). The cephalopod is presented with details views, including from beneath and in motion. Plate 24 in the section 'G. Poulpe' from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles.., by Andr tienne d'Audebert de Frussac (1786 1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802 1857) (Paris, 1848). Various