Pectoral fin of the Squalus maximus [Basking shark] mb-code 1620088 A knife grinder at work

A knife grinder at work

Inscribed lower left: 'J

two of whom are operating a fire-engine hand-pump supplying air to a diving bell

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Pectoral fin of the Squalus maximus [Basking shark] mb-code 1620088 A knife grinder at workPlate 16 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. View of the fin dissected to show cartilage arrangement, inscribed 'Two inches to