'Sepia officianalia' [Common cuttlefish] Finish:none daughter of a rich shipping

daughter of a rich shipping magnate

in the foreground a group of figures appear to be feeding a large black bird

he served as its President from 1885 to 1890

Garlick Hill

'Sepia officianalia' [Common cuttlefish] Finish:none daughter of a rich shippingMarine zoological study of the Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). The cephalopod is presented with the two long tentacles extended, therefore a dead specimen. With supporting detail drawings A F. Plate 1 in the section 'Seiche (Sepia)' 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