Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository Finish:Float frame This cartoon accompanies a poem

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Whelk shells in the Royal Society's Repository Finish:Float frame This cartoon accompanies a poemStudies of five whelk ('wilk') shells: a 'Square Wilk' ('Buccina Rhomboidea'); a 'Long Square Wilk'; a 'Thick Lipp'd Wilk'; a 'Triangular Wilk'; and an 'Inverted Wilk Snail' ('Bucchicochlea'). Table 10 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge, by Nehemiah Grew (second printing: London, 1686). The Royal Society's