Garden snail. Helix aspersa (Helix hortensis). "When these animals are disposed to love, they signify their mutual wishes by launching several little darts (spicula) at each other. These darts are of a very sharp form, and of a horny substance, and the animals are provided with a little quiver or reservoir of them during the breeding season.". Illustration signed S (George Shaw).. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany" 1790.. Frederick Polydore Nodder (1751~1801) was a gifted natural history artist and engraver. Nodder honed his draftsmanship working on Captain Cook and Joseph Banks' Florilegium and engraving Sydney Parkinson's sketches of Australian plants. He was made "botanic painter to her majesty" Queen Charlotte in 1785. Nodder also drew the botanical studies in Thomas Martyn's Flora Rustica (1792) and 38 Plates (1799). Most of the 1,064 illustrations of animals, birds, insects, crustaceans, fishes, marine life and