19th Century Collection (#65)

Pezophaps solitaria, Rodrigues solitaire
Plate number 512 c by Richard Owen drawn from a male skeleton specimen at Cambridge university.This giant flightless pigeon was the closest relative of the dodo, it was native to Rodrigues Island

Amazilia violiceps, violet-crowned hummingbird
Plate 285, hand coloured lithograph from A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, (1861) by John Gould

Letter addressed to Lord Rothschild
Paula the Famous Reptile Conqueror letter writing paper. The sensational attraction of the Royal Aquarium, London. The only act of its kind in the world

A view of Funchel from the West, Madeira 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Meles meles, Eurasian badger
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

House buried by travelling sand, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Phascolarctos cinereus, koala
Illustration from The Mammals of Australia (1863) by John Gould

Nyctalus leisleri, lesser noctule
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Cladhymenia oblongifolia
Plate CXXVII from The Botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839-1843, Volume 2 (1847), by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

Australasia book cover
Front cover of Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, 1893

Panterpe insignis, fiery-throated hummingbird
Plate 336, hand coloured lithograph from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, (1861)

The British Museums Zoological Gallery
An illustration showing visitors at the British Museums Zoological Gallery during the 1800s. The gallery is adorned with glass fronted display cases, bird specimens on the walls and framed paintings

Saccharum officinarum, sugarcane
Plate 635 from the Fleming Collection of Indian Drawings, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Houbaropsis bengalensis, Bengal florican
Plate 41, a watercolour by Rajman Singh, from Brian Houghton Hodgsons collection of birds and mammals of Nepal

Bryonia grandis, ivy gourd
Plate 1156 from the Fleming Collection of Indian Drawings, 1800. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Poems by Mary Anning (1799-1871)
Encomium Murchisonaum, a poem written c. 1840 s. Page 3 of 3. The Complaint of a sunbeam against Dr Faraday, written in honour of the English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

Limonier ordinaire, Limone ordinario
Tab. 84 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820, by Antoine Risso (1777-1845)

Eigenmannia sp. electric fish
Plate 144, pencil drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace from his Fishes of The Rio Negro, number 108

Typhonium venosum, voodoo lily
Plate 917 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

The Market Place at St. Thomas 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Pantholops hodgsonii, chiru
Plate 146 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Myiomela leucura, white-tailed robin

Ramphastos toco, toco toucan
Plate 1, hand coloured lithograph by John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter from A Monograph of the Ramphastid, or family of Toucans, 2nd edition, (1854) by John Gould

Guide Lecturer with visitors, c. 1920
John Henry Leonard was appointed as the first Guide Lecturer in May 1912, at the Natural History Museum, London

Alfred Clayton, Botany Attendant, c. 1894
This portrait of Alfred Clayton, who joined the Museums staff in February 1858, was taken to commemorate his retirement in July 1894

Urania speciosa, travellers tree
Plate 578 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Locust Tree, Tenerife 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Mrs T. V. Wallace, A. R. Wallace and his sister Fanny, Mrs Sim
Taken after Wallaces return from the Amazon. Photograph from the Wallace collection in the General Library at the Natural History Museum, London

BhԲsiah ursitaxis inauritus
Plate 86 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Native house in Aru
From My Life - A record of events and opinions by Alfred Russel Wallace, London 1908

Cochoa purpurea, purple cochoa
Plate 229, a watercolour by Rajman Singh, from Brian Houghton Hodgsons collection of birds and mammals of Nepal

Cocytius antaeus antaeus Drury, giant sphinx moth
Watercolour by Edith Blake (1845-1928), 1892, from Lady Edith Blakes collection of drawings of Jamacian lepidoptera and plants, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Sorex araneus, Eurasian shrew

The slip and boathouses on the Marina, Bermuda 1873

Papio hamadryas, hamadryas baboon
Hamadryas baboons, one adult male, one juvenile and one adult female. Plate 11 from Symbolae Physicae section: Zoologica I. Mammalia by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876)

Dr. William Lauder Lindsay (1829-1880)
Portrait of Dr. William Lauder Lindsay, a Scottish botanist

Glacial rock and Block House, Halifax 1873
The Point Glacier Rock Halifax, showing action of glacial sea on surface of rock, Halifax

The amalgamating room at a gold digging site, Halifax 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Matilda Smith (1854-1926)
Cousin of Joseph Hooker, the creator of the Botanical magazine and son of William Hooker (establisher of worldwide communications and correspondence system for collectors)

David Moore (1807�)
Portrait of David Moore, a Scottish born botanist and curator of the botanical gardens at Glasnevin, Ireland in 1838

Asa Gray (1810-1888)
Portrait of Asa Gray, an American botanist and an early advocate of Darwinism. Also professor of natural history at Harvard University and author of Flora of North America (1838-1843)

Peculiar stratifications just outside the dockyards, Bermuda
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Orange Grove, St. Michael, Azores 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

General view of Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Garrison boat. Bermuda

Private garden, St. Michael, Azores 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

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