'Testudo ferox' [Florida softshell turtle] mb-code MAC002 5th January 1955

5th January 1955

A young woman and her maid enter a room from outdoors

Lord Mayor Cubitt has been beaten in the election by the Liberal candidate

(and) an exact figure

'Testudo ferox' [Florida softshell turtle] mb-code MAC002 5th January 1955Zoological studies of the Florida softshell turtle Apalone ferox. The freshwater turtle is shown in three figures: two showing the upper and lower body and a third showing the neck in its elongated position. Plate 19 from the book Historia testudinum iconibus illustrata by Johann David Schoepff (Erlangen, 1792). The illustration is inscribed below: 'Testudo ferox Pennant.' The plate has been trimmed for binding, resulting in the loss of artist