'Patella oblonga' shell Hans Place View into the steeply-sloped Tarawera

View into the steeply-sloped Tarawera crater

3rd October 1958

By the time production ended in 1963

The Royal Society recommended the civil engineer John Smeaton (1724-1792) for the job

15th November 1988

'Patella oblonga' shell Hans Place View into the steeply-sloped TaraweraPlate 3 figures 1 4 from the paper "An account of some minute British shells, either not duly observed, or totally unnoticed by Authors. In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks", by John Lightfoot, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 76 (1786), pp. 160 170. Six figures of a freshwater shell discovered "adhering to the leaves of Iris pseudacorus in waters near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire." Figures 1 4 show the shell at life size and in