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32 Soho SquareEngraving from the Banks Archive at the Natural History Museum, London. 32 Soho Square was the residence and Herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks, an English naturalist and botanist
Betula verrucosa, silver birchIllustration depicting silver birch foliage from the Plate Collection of the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Silurian seafloorAn artists impression of the seafloor of the shelf sea surrounding Britain during the Silurian (443 to 417 million years ago), with trilobites, brachiopods, rugose corals, and molluscs
Fannia scalaris, fake fossil fly in amber
Interglacial LandscapeArtists impression of England during a Pleistocene (1.8 million to 11, 000 years before present) interglacial period. Rhinoceros feed on the sparse vegetation in the distance
Susannite on Caledonite4mm crystal of susannite (carbonate) in a mass of caledonite (suplhate). Specimen from the Roughton Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria
Carboniferous coal forestArtists impression of the swamp forests of ferns and other non-flowering plants which covered much of Britain towards the end of the Carboniferous period (354 to 290 million years ago)
Bothriospondylus madagascariensisA fossil specimen of a femur fragment, or thigh bone that once belonged to the dinosaur, Bothriospondylus madagascariensis. It was discovered in Madagacar and dates back to the Middle Jurassic
The Piltdown (Skull) Gravel PitThe site where the Pitdown specimens were claimed to have been discovered (1912-1915). Photograph believed to have been taken during the winter of 1913
Baryonyx fossil remainsPlan of the crazy paving of blocks containing Baryonyx bones at the brick pit excavation site at Ockley, Surrey, UK. This was excavated in 1983 where a Baryonyx specimen was discovered
Wold meteorite landing sitePen and ink sketch showing an obelisk marking the landing site of the Wold Meteorite, Yorkshire, 1812. Image from the Sowerby Collection by Gerrit van Spaendonck
Barkham Avenue, Piltdown, SussexView looking down the drive c. 1912, including from left to right, Venus Hargreaves, Arthur Smith Woodward (with the goose Chipper), Charles Dawson, and Robert Kenward Snr
Holcus landatus, Yorkshire fogIllustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London
Drawing of the Cromwell Road facade of the Natural History MThe Waterhouse building was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened to the public in 1881
BonnetCollected during the archaelogical excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986
Down HouseOnce the home of Charles Darwin and now the Darwin Museum, Orpington, Kent
Display cases in the Central Hall at the Natural History MusThis grand vista of the Central Hall sweeps from the bronze statue of Sir Richard Owen by Thomas Brock to the marble statue of Charles Darwin on the staircase. Photograph taken in April 1906
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus: Head onlyFrom the Lower Jurassic, Lyme Regis, Dorset. This specimen is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found and one of Mary Annings greatest discoveries
Searching for the Piltdown Man
Palaeontology laboratoryPreparing a mounted skeleton of Baryonyx, a carnivorous dinosaur from Sussex, England. Laying out casts made of glass reinforced plastic prior to mounting on exhibition panelling
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus: Head and neckFrom the Lower Jurassic, Lyme Regis, Dorset. This specimen is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found and one of Mary Annings greatest discoveries
Giant deer, February 1893. The Natural History Museum, LondPhotographed by J.D. Pemberton in February 1893, this Megalocerus giganteus skeleton represents an extinct race of giant deer (not elk) that had a distribution throughout Europe
Cetiosauriscus stewarti fossil teethFossil teeth belonging to the Cetiosauriscus, a Sauropod dinosaur, discovered in Peterborough, England. It dates back 158 million years
Crypt of Christ Church, SpitalfieldsPicture taken during the archaelogical excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986
Drawing of the Cromwell Road facade of the Natural HistoryThe Waterhouse building was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened to the public in 1881
Pelorosaurus teethThese robust chopping teeth from Pelorosaurus, a sauropod, show where the outer enamel has been worn away by constant chopping at plants. This dinosaur lived 130 to 112 million years ago
Robert Plot (1640-1696)Portrait of Robert Plot, a British naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum
Down House gardensOnce the home of Charles Darwin and now the Darwin Museum, Orpington, Kent
Limacina mercinensis, holoplanktonic molluscFossilised specimens of Holoplaktonic molluscs found in early Eocene, London Clay at Highgate, London. 58 million years old
Mus musculus, house mouse and Mus muralis, St. Kilda house mCommon Mouse and St. Kilda House Mouse. Plate 28 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21
Turquoise variety HenwooditeA specimen of the turquoise variety called Henwoodite, named after William Jory Henwood (1805-1875) from West Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus skeletonFrom the Lower Jurassic, Lyme Regis, Dorset. This is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found and one of Mary Annings greatest discoveries. Length 2.9 meters
Pliosaurus ferox toothA fossil tooth that once belonged to the extinct carnivorous marine reptile, Pliosaurus ferox that lived during the Jurasic period
Sigillaria mamillaris (Brongniart), LycopodPart of a stem of a Sigillaria mamillaris, a lycopod, a Carboniferous plant. Upper Carboniferous; Darton, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Range: Genus, Carboniferous-Permian, Species, Westphalian
Fuchsias sp. Princess of WalesPlate 16 from The Illustrated Bouquet (1857-64) by Edward Geroge Henderson. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Collection of fossilised molluscsPlate 21 from Gideon Algernon Mantells Fossils of the South Downs, 1822
Hastings amberThis amber is from the Lower Cretaceous rocks of Hastings, East Sussex. Amber is fossilised tree resin
Norfolk Island drawing 4A sketch taken from Botanical Drawings from Australia by Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826)
Medicine bottle found in a childs coffin during the archaeological excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986
Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave 139) maxillaeAdult modern human maxillae excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, (Creswellian)
Flint artifact (Goughs Cave)Creswellian flint artifacts excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, late upper palaeolithic (Creswellian)
Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave 22 / 87)Adolescent human maxillae excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, (Creswellian)
Antler baton (Goughs Cave)Reindeer antler baton excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, (Creswellian)
Polyommatus icarus, common blueA female specimen of the common blue butterfly from England. In the common blue butterfly the males are always clear blue
Dactylioceras commune, ammoniteThis shows a Lower Jurassic snakestone from Whitby, Yorkshire, UK where a snakes head has been carved onto the ammonite
Polygonal corallitesThe simple, polygonal corallites of favosites are well seen in this 6 cm high polished block from the Devonian of south-west England