Twelve specimens of foraminifera Product:Postcard Garry Thompson

Garry Thompson

Drapers' Almshouses

View with cows and figures in the foreground

This relates to a riot staged by Irish Catholics in Birkenhead during October 1862

Twelve specimens of foraminifera Product:Postcard Garry ThompsonA composite illustration built up from individual plates within the book Conchyliologie systematique, et classification methodique des coquilles by Pierre Denys de Montford (2 volumes, Paris, 1808 1810). Each specimen of foraminifera [single celled marine organisms with shells] is inscribed with De Montford's 'genre' number and a brief caption. Each appears with an indication of the actual size of the specimen, drawn alongside the magnified