Inscription Content | Anatomie Clastique 1869 catalogue entry reads (translated from French): 'No. 56 Snail - (Helix pomatia, Lin.) spiral - like type of mollusc, considerably enlarged, 33c. wide (1 foot) by 66c. long (2 feet), with muscles, vessels, nerves, viscera, decomposing into as many fragments as there are organs, and offering more than 600 objects of detail, showing all the parts contained in the tentacle'. |