A naturalist's specimen collectors were cod.

Gosse records how Gordon of Elgin obtained rare crustaceans from fish stomachs, helped by Widow Scott and her son John.

The fish reached animals people struggled to collect. A fishing family brought them to science.

A naturalist's specimen collectors were cod.

A natural-history illustration of a cod with a schematic translucent stomach and a dotted connection to a tray of crustaceans and shells, recalling specimens collected through Widow Scott and her son John.

A schematic reconstruction of the collecting route described by Gosse. The illustrated catch is not an inventory of one fish.

The Gonoplax crab plate beside Gosse’s discussion of specimens recovered from cod. Colour remaster; this is contextual source art.

A naturalist's specimen collectors were cod.

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