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Take something home with you from the Natural History ShopGeneral Museum poster. Drawing of a child leading a dinosaur out of the Museum, with the slogan Take something home with you from the Natural History [Museum] Shop, South Kensington, London
Scleromochlus were bipedal reptiles that grew to around 3 feet long. They lived around 200 million years during the end of the Triassic period. Illustration by Neave Parker
DiplodocusWeighing around 20 tonnes & reaching up to 26 metres in length Diplodocus is one of the longest-known dinosaurs. It lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Upper Jurassic
PolacanthusThis dinosaur was from the family of armoured skinned dinosaurs, the Ankylosaurs. It was around 14 feet in length living around 125 million years ago. Fossils have been found in the Isle of Wight, UK
TriceratopsThe three-horned dinosaur which lived during the Upper Cretaceous period, 67 to 65 million years ago. It grew up to 9 metres in length and fossils have been discovered in USA
OrnithosuchusAn illustration by Neave Parker of the Ornithosuchus, a thecodont, an extinct bipedal reptile closedly related to the dinosaur. It lived around 185 million years ago
Scene in Wealden TimesScene from the Wealden times, during the Cretacous period. Painting, oil on canvas, by Eli Marsden Wilson (1877-1965), before 1935. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London
Archaeopteryx had the same number and arrangement of primary and secondary flight feathers as modern birds. Watercolour on paper by John Doncaster
PterodactylDrawing of a Pterodactyl, an extinct flying reptile that lived during the Mesozoic era from around 251 millon years ago to 65 million years ago during the time of the K-T extinction
Proconsul africanusAn illustration of the extinct primate, Proconsul africanus. Like Dendropithecus, they mostly lived in tropical forests in East Africa during the Miocene about 50 million years ago
Basidiomycota: filamentous fungiColoured lithograph by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904. Date: 1904
IguanodonThis dinosaur was a large bipedal herbivore which stood 14 feet high and 30 feet long. It lived during the Lower Cretactous around 140 to 110 million years ago
20th Century Art: Weevil (Rhopalomesites tardyi), 1998 by MaWatercolour. Russell is an example of a scientist turned artist. Trained initially as an entomologist his combined love of beetles and art resulted in a series of exceptional drawings of weevils
Hominid reconstructions in chronological orderFrom left to right: Australopithecus, Early Homo erectus (Java Man), Late Homo erectus (Peking Man), Homo heidelbergensis (Rhodesian Man), Neanderthal man and Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon)
Australopithecus afarensisIllustration by Maurice Wilson of extinct African hominids (Australopithecus afarensis) living 3-4 million years ago. They walked upright, although they retained the ability to climb trees
Acanthophracta, radiolariansColoured lithograph by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904. Date: 1904
Giant Ground Sloth, Natural History MuseumPhotograph of a Skeleton of the Giant Ground Sloth (Megatherium Americanum). July 1902. Archive ref: PH/173/244 Date: 1902
Stuart Stammwitz working on blue whale model, 1938, The NatuStuart Stammwitz is shown here working on the whales eye, before the model was painted
MegalosaurusThis was a carnivorous dinosaur that lived 140 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic. It grew up to 20 feet long and fossils have been discovered in the English Midlands and in Southern England
AcanthopholisA 12 foot long herbivorous armoured dinosaur which lived around 90 million years ago. Fossil evidence has been discovered in England. Painting by Neave Parker
Paracyclotosaurus was a large prehistoric amphibian that lived during the Triassic period around 235 million years ago. It grew to over 2 metres in length. Illustation by Neave Parker
CetiosaurusA sauropod dinosaur which grew up to 60 feet long. It lived about 160 to 170 million years ago in the Midlands and Southern England, during the Upper Juassic perid. Painting by Neave Parker
PlesiosaurAn illustration by Neave Parker of the extinct marine reptile, Plesiosaur. These lived throughout most of the Mesozoic (MZ) era becoming extinct 65 million years ago at the time of the K-T extinction
George the elephant, 1935Two attendants brush down the African elephant George in the Central Hall in one of several shots of Museum staff taken by Weekly Illustrated photographers for an article that appeared in February
Augustus H. Bishop with elephant tusks, May 1912Augustus Bishop arrived at the Museum in 1904, aged 23, after three years training as a taxidermist
African elephant in Central Hall, February 1910Photographed in 1910 just three years after his arrival, the African elephant later nicknamed George, was obtained from the taxidermists Rowland Ward Ltd
Portable seismometer in use, 1973A modern model of Zhang Hengs apparatus for detecting earthquakes. The model is from the Science Museums collections
Mastodon in Geological Gallery, December 1919The Guide Lecturer, John Henry Leonard, took this shot of two girls inspecting a primitive elephant or mastodon (Mammut americanus), in December 1919
Firemen, c. 1910 at the Natural History MuseumIn 1906, telephonic fire alarms were installed that linked ten points around the Museum with the Firemens Room in the basement and the local Fire Brigade station
Scaffolding in Central Hall, 1925This photograph, taken in February 1925, marked the cleaning and redecoration of the North and Central Halls by the Office of Works
George in the entrance, April 1927, the Natural History MusThe removal of George the African elephant from the Central Hall in April 1927 for remounting
New Guard House Tower of LondonThe illustration was drawn due to a great outcry which was raised about the new guard building just erected beside the south-west corner of the beautiful White Tower on the ground of its vandalism
Aegyptopithecus zeuxisIllustration of an Egyptian Ape by Maurice Wilson. The forerunners of both monkeys and apes. These small arboreal primates lived 35-32 million years ago in the tropical rain forests of northern Egypt
Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1933Packed for shipping. The majority of Rothschilds (280, 000 items) bird skin collection was sold the AMNH in New York after he ran into financial difficulties
Walter Rothschild & collecting party, AlgeriaRothschild (second from right) undertook three separate ornithological collecting expeditions to Algeria in 1908, 1909 and 1911, along with Ernst Hartert
Moreton Bay chestnut seed podCastanospermum australe, Moreton Bay chestnut seed pod collected in Queensland, Australia in 1909 Date: 1909
Lacertilia, lizardsColoured lithograph by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904. Date: 1904
Aquilegia vulgaris, ColumbineInk drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1903 Date: 1903
Sketchbooks of Lepidoptera, Margaret FountaineVarious larvae and pupae watercolours with descriptions, 1933-35 Date: 1933
Paris to Bordeaux Race 1895The first car driving on Michelin tyres to win the Paris to Bordeax race in 1895. Ceramic tile picture ftom the Michelin Building in Fulham Road, London Date: 1905
20th Century Art: Wildlife sketch no. 28, by David MeasuresBall point pen and watercolour. Not wishing to follow traditional methods of scientific illustration, Measures chose to develop a technique which enabled an immediate method of recording his
Martin Alister Campbell Hinton (1883-1961)Portrait of Martin Alister Campbell Hinton, a zoologist and keeper of zoology at the British Museum (Natural History). From Piltdown, A Scientific Forgery
Homo sapiens, Cro-Magnon manA model head of Homo sapiens, Cro-Magnon man. Cro-Magnon man, an anatomically modern human lived around 30, 000 years ago in the Dordogne region of France. This model was created by Maurice Wilson
Homo neanderthalensisA model head of Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis) created by Maurice Wilson. Neanderthal man is believed to have lived between around 130, 000 and 35, 000 years ago
Homo sapiens, Cro-Magnon man headA reconstruction of the head of Cro-Magnon man by Maurice Wilson, c. 1950. Cro-Magnon man is possibly Western Europes most famous anatomically modern human
Upnor elephant, 1926, the Natural History Museum, LondonIn 1911 a party of Royal Engineers cut a practice trench on Tower Hill, Upnor, Kent and disturbed several large bones
Boys approaching the entrance of the Natural History MuseumReports on the first few months of the Childrens Centre concluded that the majority of the children were under 11, often sent out after breakfast with nothing to do
Aepyornis maximus, elephant birdPainting by Maurice Wilson from his drawings collection (1950)