Engravings of various animals in an encyclopaedia. From top left by rows: Asterias glacialis (a sea star), Ascaris vermicularis (pinworm), Balaena phy

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Engravings of various animals in an encyclopaedia. From top left by rows: Asterias glacialis (a sea star), Ascaris vermicularis (pinworm), Balaena physalus (Fin whale), Balistes vetula (Queen triggerfish), Blalla americana, Blennius gallerugine and Blennius occelaris, Blennius viviparus (various Blennies), Boa constrictor, and Boa hortulana (snakes), Bombylius medius and Bombylius merio. This plate was published in George Gregory's A Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, printed at London in 1807.

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