Ocythoe cranchii [winged argonaut] mb-code 1237500 She was being tested in

She was being tested in the Channel when she suddenly began to take on much water

'Portrait of Alderman Oliver'

with surround

In the background in the Duke of Edinburgh

Boys by a lock on the Grand Union Canal

Ocythoe cranchii [winged argonaut] mb-code 1237500 She was being tested inPlate 12 from the paper 'Observations on the genus Ocythoe of Rafinesque, with a description of a new species' by William Elford Leach, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 293 296. Six views of the cephalopod Argonauta hians, including details of arms and shell. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: watercolour on paper. 1817