Amphibia Collection (page 4)

George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937) with spirit jars, 1920s
Belgian born British naturalist, George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937), was first-class assistant in the Zoology Department in the Natural History section of the British Museum, 1882-1920

Rana maxima, bull frog
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Sargocentron hastatum, red squirrelfish, Amphiprion percula
Plate 25 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

Paracyclotosaurus davidi
The only known example of an amphibian that lived in Australia about 235 million years ago. Dates from the Middle Triassic, Wianamantta Group, Ashfield Shale, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney

Land Frog
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Motacilla cinerea, grey wagtail
Plate 259, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 1 (1758)

Toad illustration
Top left figure of plate 26 from Ranarum (1758) by Roesel von Rosenhof

Alytes obstetricans, midwife toad
This male midwife toad is carrying an egg string. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Frog
One of the 140 frog species known from the island of Sri Lanka. Many of these frogs have only been discovered in the last decade or so

Salamanders
Plate 8 from 298 water-colour drawings of insects and larvae (1622) by C. Flegel

Nycticorax nycticorax, black-crowned night heron
Plate 236 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Buteo lineatus, red-shouldered hawk
Plate 71 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Eryops megacephalus
Skeleton of Early amphibian (Eryops megacephalus), 295-285 million year old specimen from the Early Permian, Texas, U.S.A

Benthosuchus sushkini
A fossil skull once belonging to an amphibian which lived during the Triassic period, 230 million years ago. This fossil originates from the Triassic rocks of the Scharzhenga river, Vachnevo Russia

Eryops model
A model of Eryops, an extinct amphibian that was over a metre long. It lived during the Early Permian period around 295 to 285 million years ago. It was a large land animal for its time

Fossil amphibian footprints
Fossil footprints discovered in Yorkshire dating back to the Early Carboniferous period, around 342 to 340 million year ago

Orbea variegata, toad cactus
Sketch 300 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches (unbound) by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Bogus mating fossil frogs
This image shows bogus mating fossil frogs. It was figured in J.B.A Beringer (1726) plate 12. Photographed by Paul Taylor

Ardea alba, great egret
Plate 386 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Cheirotherium
Arid desert of Triassic Britain with imagined reconstructions of Cheirotherium ( hand-beast ), a labyrinthodont reptile, whose prints are common in Triassic rocks but no remains have been found

Bullfrog. Ranidae amphibian. Engraving from a painting by F.Padr󮠅 ngraving

European Common Frog. Amphibians. Engraving after a drawing by a F.Padr󮠅 ngraving

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