Bottlenose whale Day & Son flower buds

flower buds

'The Next Sweet Thing à La Porcupine

Order of the Bath

9 year old Charlie Boorman and 10 year old Brian Walters act as doodlebug spotters and continue with their lessons at Otham village school near Maidstone

Bottlenose whale Day & Son flower budsPlate 19 for the paper 'Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales', by John Hunter, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 77 part 1 1787 pp. 371 450. View of the animal from its left side. The specimen, apparently a juvenile of twenty one feet in length, 'was caught above London Bridge in the year 1783, and became the property of Alderman Pugh'. Numbered 'IIII'. Not signed. Watermarked 'J Whatman'. Original: ink on paper. 1787