18th Century Collection (page 33)

Haliaeetus leucocephalus, bald eagle
Plate 1, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Raper drawing No. 6
Salvages [and] Salvages [and] Island of Teneriffe. Painting by George Raper, Ca. 1790

Bison bonasus, European bison
Illustration from Gleanings of Natural History (1758-74) by George Edwards (1694-1773)

Carduelis tristis, American goldfinch
Plate 43, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Syringa sp. Scotch lilac
Folio 75 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Coffea arabica L. Arabian coffee
Drawing by Georg Dionysius Ehret. Image used in The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller (1990) by Hazel Le Rougetel, plate 15

Paradisaea rubra, red bird-of-paradise
Plate 6 from Francois Le Vaillants Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rocliers, Vol.1, (1806)

Carpinus betulus L. hornbeam
Sketch 36 (66 Drawings Volume). From a collection of original drawings and sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Handwritten notes by John Abbot
Handwritten notes to accompany Plate 34, 7 from Volume 16 by John Abbot. Illustration of Metitaea ismeria and Helianthus tracheliifolius

Folio 23 from A Collection of Flowers by John Edwards
Folio 23 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Babiana ringens, rats tail babiana
Illustration from Plantarum Horti Medici Amstelodamensis (1706) by Caspar Commelin. Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Dillenia alata
Specimen of Dillenia alata, collected in Queensland, Australia, 1770, by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander while on Captain James Cooks first voyage

Arctopus echinatus
Plate from Rariorus Africanus Plantarum (1738-1739) by J. Burman, of Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Jasminum polyanthum, jasmine
Folio 68 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Rosa x damascena, damask rose
Folio 20 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Alyogyne hakeafolia (Giord) Alefeld, hibiscus
Collected by Robert Brown in Goose Island Bay, off Cape Arid, Western Australia, May 1803, during the voyage of HMS Investigator, captained by Matthew Flinders

Euphorbia mammillaris, corn cob euphorbia
Illustration from Prludia Botanica (1703) by Caspar Commelin, of Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Senecio vulgaris, groundsel
Folio 46 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Amaranthus tricolor, Josephs coat
Folio 63 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Senecio pseudoarnica Less. seaside ragwort
Sketch 11, Newfoundland Volumes. From a collection of original drawings and sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Syringa persica, Persian lilac
Folio 53 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Folio 7 from A Collection of Flowers by John Edwards
Folio 7 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Barbacenia, Quelusia, Lafoensia
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816

Rubus idaeus, raspberry
Illustration from Traite des Arbres Fruitiers &c. Volume 3 by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782). Illustration entitled Framboisier a fruit blanc

Drawing labelled Sponge
Drawing by Thomas Malie. Thomas Malie, a surgeon to the Kings Dragoon Guards, sailed to the West Indies during the course of his military service and made detailed drawings of local flora and fauna

Italian Pine
Plate 24 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty Two Species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. The series was originally issued in 1771

Rubus ulmifolius, blackberry
Illustration from Traite des Arbres Fruitiers, &c. Volume 3 by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pollard Willow
Plate 29 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty Two Species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. The series was originally issued in 1771

Letter from Vandelli, Domenico
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816

Yew
Plate 32 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty Two Species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. The series was originally issued in 1771

Aix falericulata, mandarin duck
Watercolour by Sarah Stone (1788) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Gustavus Brander (1720-1787)
Trustee of the British Museum and Director of the Bank of England. Here depicted holding the type specimen of Strombus amplus

Phascolarctos cinereus, koala
Plate 5 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803

Coracinia analis, New Caledonian cuckoo-shrike
Ff. 53. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Corvus cinereus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Plate 64 from British Orchids
Watercolour from British Orchids (1792-1817), by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Ornithorhynchus anatinus, duck-billed platypus
Plate 13 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803

Bos connochaetes, wildebeest
Ff. 21. Drawing by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain James Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

Eudyptes schlegeli, royal penguin
Ff. 80. Pencil drawing by George Forster annotated Aptenodytes chhrysocome and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de (1707-1788)
Portrait of Comte de Buffon, a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Miniature painting, watercolour on paper, artist unknown

Acrocephalus caffer, long-billed reed warbler
Ff. 55. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Oriolus musa and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Nestor meridionalis, South Island kaka
Ff. 50. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Psittacus hypopolius and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Foulehaio carunculatus, wattled honeyeater
Ff. 64. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Certhia carunculata and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Curing the Headache
A painting by Thomas Watling of a woman of New South Wales curing the Headache. The blood which she takes from her own gums she supposes comes along the string from the patient

Eunymphicus cornutus, horned parakeet
Ff. 43. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Psittacus bisetis and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Sir Nathaniel Dance (20 June 1748 �March 1827)
Sir Nathaniel Dance, an officer of the Honourable East India Company

Plate 16d from Specimens of British minerals? vol. 2 (1802) b
Plate 35A from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Study detail of the head and mouth of the medium-sized, weed-dwelling, marine fish found along the coasts of the south-west Pacific

Plate 79 from British Orchids
Watercolour from British Orchids (1792-1817), by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Leptomeria acida R. Br
Illustration of Leptomeria acida, by Ferdinand Bauer. From a specimen from the Sydney region of New South Wales

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