'Octopus macropus' [Atlantic white-spotted octopus] William Whetenhall Plate 34 from Museum Leverianum

Plate 34 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever

Full body study of a King cobra ('Ophiophagus elaps') with three head studies to show scalation

This relates to the introduction of a motion by Mr Butt calling for Home Rule in Ireland

19th May 1967

December 24

'Octopus macropus' [Atlantic white-spotted octopus] William Whetenhall Plate 34 from Museum LeverianumMarine zoological study of the Atlantic white spotted octopus (Octopus macropus). The cephalopod is presented with details views, including from beneath and in motion. Plate 24 in the section 'G. Poulpe' from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles.., by Andr tienne d'Audebert de Frussac (1786 1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802 1857) (Paris, 1848). Various