Prints of organisms related to Sir Charles Wyville Thomson The plates are of unknown biological samples taken from the deep-seas on the HMS Porcupine in 1869. Each print has several specimens illustrated on it. Several of the prints are numbered, but there is no corresponding identification. The prints are glued on to carboard backings. One of the micrographs was published in Thomson's 'The depths of the sea. In the introduction of this work, he acknowledges that the drawings were penciled by Jean Jacques Wilde and rendered into wood blocks by J D Cooper. 1873