Flying fish with freshwater nests and cases Size:XS: 20 x 15cm The plate was printed with

The plate was printed with an English extract of the letter in Philosophical Collections ed

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Flying fish with freshwater nests and cases Size:XS: 20 x 15cm The plate was printed withZoological studies of three types of marine and freshwater specimens. Figure 1 a flying fish 'from the Royal Society'. Figure 2 nest of the 'Tickleback' eg stickleback, probably the freshwater fish Gasterosteus aculeatus aculeatus, the three spined stickleback. Figure 3 four specimens of caddisfly cases. Plate 8 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature, by Richard Bradley (London, 1721). Inscribed 'Plate VIII. T. Cole sculp.'