Heart of the Squalus maximus [Basking shark] Finish:Single Signed below 'R

Signed below 'R

The fine weather brought the crowds out to Happy Hampstead

and his baby son who had never seen

The British Prime Minister

Heart of the Squalus maximus [Basking shark] Finish:Single Signed below 'RPlate 18 from the paper 'Additions to an account of the anatomy of the Squalus maximus, contained in a former paper; with observations on the structure of the branchial artery', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 103 (1813), pp. 227 241. From an original specimen caught at Brighton and brought to London for dissection in December 1812. Section of the animal's heart. The work is inscribed above with publication and