Shell, which supplied both them and Dr Oldenburg and Dr Brune with the wax for their experiments, has changed the formula over the years.

ECONOMIST: Geophysics

He had collapsed between wicker sofa and African coffee table, his legs hairless and white as wax, his stomach a great pale mound, and his face as pinched and pink as crab shell.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian