Venus's flower basket shipping Industry interior scene showing a group

interior scene showing a group of men and woman playing a game of cards

Wales for the Dr Who TV serial 'Delta and the Bannermen' 29th June 1987

is told by Vulcan that her efforts have had the paradoxical effect of creating work for him

perched on the trunk of 'Quercus (forte) marilandica'

A horse and carriage stands in the street

Venus's flower basket shipping Industry interior scene showing a groupStudy of the sponge Euplectella aspergillum, known as Venus's flower basket. The sponge became a novelty and a wedding gift in Victorian England since it was frequently home to a pairing of male and female shrimps. Plate from the monograph On Euplectella aspergillum. Also on a new form of globigerina; phosphorescent animalcules, by William Chimmo (London, Taylor and Francis, 1878). The plate is not inscribed. William Chimmo (1828 1891) Royal Navy