Aquatic Collection (page 3)

Aquatic microscope. Engraving from John Ellis, Essai sur l histoire naturelle des corallines, et d autres productions marines. Plate XXXIX. Date: 1756

Diphyllobothrium polyrugosum, tapeworm
Discovered inside a 3.8 metre killer whale washed up on a beach in Cornwall in 1978

Embalmed whale on tour in England, 1931
A 45 foot whale, the largest ever seen in England, which weighs more than 20 tons, is on a tour of England. It was caught off the coast of Norway and embalmed by Mr

Homeward Bound
Illustration (p.531) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Whales and their relatives
Poster advertising Whales and their relatives exhibition which opened in 1984

Blue Whale Hall
View of Blue Whale Hall, Mammal Gallery, Gallery 24, Life Galleries at The Natural History Museum, London

Cuttlefish dissection drawing
Table LI, taken from Bibel der Natur byJan Swammerdamm

Beached whales alive in a Cornish village, 1932
The people of Perranporth, a village not far from Newquay, Cornwall, have just had the surprise of their lives. Eight whales have been found on the beach washed up during a gale

The Modern Mrs Jonah
Eric the Whale at Olympia. Eric, the huge 65-ton whale which arrived at Olympia yesterday from America, was on view there this morning for the first time

Sketch of Dolphins by Edward Wilson
Plate one from Edward Wilson sTerra Nova sketch book showing three dolphins

Water bug in amber
A water bug preserved in Dominican amber. This specimen dates from the Lower Miocene period

Whaling boats
A photograph from A Cruise in the Arctic (1888) by Livingstone-Learmonth

Alligator mississippiensis, American alligator
Alligator of St Johns. Drawing 22 (Ewan 49) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram. Pen and ink. Size: 235 x 366

Globicephala melas, long-finned pilot whale

Magyarosaurus & Cetiosaurus oxoniensis
Magyarosaurus was a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (about 70 mya) of Transylvania. Cetiosaurus an early sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England (170 - 160 mya)

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

Lagenorhynchus albirostris, Delphinus delphis & Tursiops tru
White-beaked dolphin, short-beaked common dolphin & common bottlenose dolphin. Plate 50 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Huso huso, beluga sturgeon
Plate 10 from Fishes of Economic Importance of the USSR by Lev Semenovich Berg and others (1949)

Cetiosauriscus stewarti
A fossil front left foot belonging to the Cetiosauriscus, a Sauropod dinosaur, discovered in Peterborough, England. It dates back 158 million years

Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale and Balaenoptera physalus
Plate 43 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Osedax mucofloris, North sea marine worm
Osedax mucofloris is also known as the bone-eating snot-flower worm. The remarkable whalebone-eating polychaete worm, shown here dissected from a Minke whale bone that was recovered off the west

Arctocephalus forsteri, New Zealand fur seal
A drawing of the lateral view of the skeleton of a New Zealand fur seal. Figure 7 from Seals of the World by Judith E. King. Published by The British Museum of Natural History, 1964

Phocoena phocoena, common porpoise
Plate 19 Cape Porpoise. Hand-coloured engraving of a drawing by James Hope Stewart (1789-1856), from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 12 Whales, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine

Acrocephalus paludicola, aquatic warbler
Plate 76 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Hexaprotodon liberiensis, hippopotamus
Plate 1 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Chelonia mydas, green sea turtle
Zoological drawing 44 (1:40). Pencil sketch by Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771) from Sir Joseph Banks commission of natural history drawings on Captain James Cooks first voyage of the Pacific, 1768-1771

Cetiosauriscus stewarti fossil teeth
Fossil teeth belonging to the Cetiosauriscus, a Sauropod dinosaur, discovered in Peterborough, England. It dates back 158 million years

Whale heart
A freeze dried specimen of a Whales heart, thought to be from an immature Sperm Whale. Held in the Natural History Museums Department of Zoology. Approximately 1 metre in length

Orcaella brevirostris, Irrawaddy dolphin
Photograph of the dorsal view of the skull of an Irrawaddy dolphin

Sousa teuszii, Atlantic Hump-backed Dolphin skull

Geosaurus gracilis
The fossil skeleton of the Geosaurus gracilis, an extinct aquatic crocodylian which lived during the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous periods

Orcinus orca gladiator, orca gladiator
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Inside the Natural History Museums Mammal and Whale Gallery
Partial views of the skeleton of a bowhead whale (top) and a sperm whale (bottom), on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London

Physeter macrocephalus, sperm whale
Detail of the mouth of a male sperm whale skeleton on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London. Specimen found in Caithness, Scotland in 1865

Engraving of the Baloena musculus, greenland whale. The whale was found floating 12 miles from Ostens on the 3rd November 1827

Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale
Close-up of the baleen inside the mouth of a gray whale on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London

Arvicola terrestris, European water vole
Plate 206 from the Collection of Watercolour Drawings of British Vertebrates, 1830-1841, by William MacGillivray (1796-1851)

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