Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository Finish:Float frame Muhammad Ali meets Bjorn Borg

Muhammad Ali meets Bjorn Borg the reigning Wimbledon Champion

Carcano was Maserati's patron

30th March 1969

Interior view of Somerset House

Vaults beneath Leathersellers' Hall

Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository Finish:Float frame Muhammad Ali meets Bjorn BorgStudies of five whelk ('wilk') shells: a 'Square Wilk' ('Buccina Rhomboidea'); a 'Long Square Wilk'; a 'Thick Lipp'd Wilk'; a 'Triangular Wilk'; and an 'Inverted Wilk Snail' ('Bucchicochlea'). Table 10 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge, by Nehemiah Grew (second printing: London, 1686). The Royal Society's