Limpet Collection

Blue-rayed limpet, Patella pellucida (Brown patella, Patella fusca). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Various shell specimens
Whelk, Buccinum undatum 1, Noahs ark, Arca noae 2, noble pen shell, Pinna nobilis 3, Tusus brevis 4, Caltrop murex, Murex tribulus 5, Admiral cone, Conus admiralis 6, volute, Voluta arenata 7

Shells and seaweed on the shore
Sea snail, Haustellum haustellum 1, black and white cone, Conus ebraeus 2, Episcopal miter, Mitra mitra 3, dog conch, Laevistrombus canarium 4, limpet, Patella scutellaris 5, and rosy razor clam

A selection of British Shells Date: circa 1920s

Crepidula, slipper limpets
Slipper limpets collected by Charles Darwin in Chile on the Beagle voyage (1831-1836)

Anthus petrosus, rock pipit
Plate 10 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Symmetrocapulus, limpet
Fossilised specimen of a limpet found in the Jurassic limestone of Les Moutiers en Cinglais, France. 206-142 million years old

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