Textilarinen..Uvellinen..Helicotrochinen [specimens of foraminifera] Product:Postcard View of workmen hoisting girders

View of workmen hoisting girders for bridge across Farringdon Street

carrying a basket and a bell

At least he is over

awaiting his turn

Textilarinen..Uvellinen..Helicotrochinen [specimens of foraminifera] Product:Postcard View of workmen hoisting girdersCopy of plate 2 from the paper 'Uber den Grunsand und seine Erlauterung des organischen lebens', by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855 (Berlin 1856) pp. 85 176. Supporting text indicates that this shows fourteen specimens of fossil foraminifera [ single celled marine organisms with shells] under three classes. Original: ink and watercolour on tracing paper. ca. 1855