20th Century Collection (page 7)

Carrying model beluga on pole, c. 1934
It took over a year from the closure of the old Whale Hall on 1 January 1934 for the skeletons and models, such as this beluga, to be ready for the public in the new Whale Hall

Pigeon types, c. 1918, the Natural History Museum, London
As food shortages hit during World War I, carrier pigeons that saved lives by relaying messages from downed pilots or disabled ships sometimes ended up shot for pigeon pie

Working on whale carcass, 1930s
Since 1913, when the Crowns rights to whales and dolphins stranded or caught in English waters (Fishes Royal) were transferred to the Museum, staff have been monitoring cetacean strandings

Photograph of corals from the Yonge collection
Photograph from the collection of Sir Charles Maurice Yonge (1899-1986) relating to the Great Barrier Reef Expedition (1927-1929), in the Archive of the Natural History Museum, London

Australian Aborigines
Photographed by Sir George Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958)

Staff photograph, 1922 (version with mount)
Photograph of Natural History Museum staff, June 21st, 1922. For version without mount please see image 056642. For key to photograph please see image 056643

Key to staff photograph, 1922
Key to the Natural History Museum staff photograph, June 21st, 1922. For original photograph please see images 056642 and 056644

Staff photograph, 1922
Photograph of Natural History Museum staff, June 21st, 1922. For key to photograph please see image 056643. For version with mount please see image 056644

Geology Department preparators shop, 1934
This photograph shows Louis Parsons preparing a skeleton of the plant-eating dinosaur Hypsilophodon, for display at the Natural History Museum, London

Baryonyx laboratory work, 1983
Palaeontologists working on the dinosaur, Baryonyx walkeri. Using a rotary diamond-edged dental saw to groove hard rock around a dinosaur vertebrae

Dinosaur excavation, Niger 1988
Hessian bandage, cut into strips and lightly coated in a thin mixture of plaster, being applied to the tissue covered bone

Baryonyx excavation, 1983
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London excavate fossils of Baryonyx walkeri from the crazy paving of blocks that hold the fossils, Surrey, England, 1983

Woodward Bernard Barham (1853-1930)
Mr Woodward Bernard Barham, a librarian (seated right) and his staff. Barham worked in the General Library at the Natural History Museum, London. 1909

Minakatella longifila, slime mould

Indian gold tore and nose ring c. 1912
Annotated watercolour drawing by Oliva Fanny Tonge (1858-1949), from one of 16 sketchbooks presented to the Natural History Museum in 1952

The Power Within
Exhibition of a supermarket in Kobe, Japan during the earthquake of 17 January 1995. Exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London which opened in July 1996

Earth Gallery, Natural History Museum, London
Photographing through a revolving globe in the atrium of the Natural History Museums Earth Galleries, part of the Visions of Earth Exhibition in Gallery 60

James Chester Bradley (1884-1975)
Portrait of James Chester Bradley, an entomologist and zoologist

Charles Davies Sherborn (1861-1942)
Portrait of Charles Davies Sherborn, a British naturalist and geologist. Image from Squire by John Roxborough Norman (1898-1944)

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