'Le Roi des Harengs' [Oarfish] mb-code 1239989 poses beside his Yamaha Beluga

poses beside his Yamaha Beluga motor scooter outside the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo building

Published by the London City Mission

'Looking into the Accounts'

during the frost of February 1895

David Jones and John Connolly

'Le Roi des Harengs' [Oarfish] mb-code 1239989 poses beside his Yamaha BelugaMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Oarfish or 'King of Herrings' (Regalecus glesne). Plate 11 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed lower left 'Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. XI.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772