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Arenaria Collection

Background imageArenaria Collection: Greater yellow-legs, semipalmated sandpiper and spotted

Greater yellow-legs, semipalmated sandpiper and spotted
Greater yellow-legs, Tringa melanoleuca 1, semipalmated sandpiper, Calidris pusilla 2, and spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularius 3

Background imageArenaria Collection: Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres, and Eurasian

Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres, and Eurasian stone curlew, Burhinus oedicnemus. Handcoloured engraving by the widow Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d Orbignys

Background imageArenaria Collection: Black-bellied sand grouse, Pterocles orientalis

Black-bellied sand grouse, Pterocles orientalis (Sand partridge, Tetrao arenaria). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Background imageArenaria Collection: Grevillea arenaria

Grevillea arenaria (Rusty grevillea, Grevillea ferruginea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by MIlls from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Background imageArenaria Collection: Sand sedge, Carex arenaria

Sand sedge, Carex arenaria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants)

Background imageArenaria Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 333

Curtis British Entomology Plate 333
Hymenoptera: Teleas elatior = Trimorus elatior [Plant: Arenaria serpyllifolia (Thyme-leaved Sandwort)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageArenaria Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 296

Curtis British Entomology Plate 296
Lepidoptera: Zerynthia latentaria = Coenotephria salicata ssp. latentaria (Striped Twin-spot Carpet) [Plant: Ammophila arenaria (Arundo arenaria, Sea-reed or Marram)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageArenaria Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 269

Curtis British Entomology Plate 269
Hymenoptera: Cerceris laeta ( but cf. Cerceris arenaria) [Plant: Mentha rotundifolia (Round-leaved Mint)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageArenaria Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 223

Curtis British Entomology Plate 223
Coleoptera: Polystichus fasciolatus = Polistichus connexus (Sea-shore Polystichus) [Plant: Honckenya peploides (Arenaria peploides, Sea Sandwort)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageArenaria Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 149

Curtis British Entomology Plate 149
Coleoptera: Cicones carpini = Cicones variegatus (Hornbeam Cicones) [Plant: Moehringia trinervia (Arenaria trinervis, Plantain-leaved Sand-wort)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageArenaria Collection: Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres

Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own Natural History of British Birds, London, 1794-1819

Background imageArenaria Collection: Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres, and stone-curlew

Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres, and stone-curlew, Burhinus oedicnemus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris

Background imageArenaria Collection: Arenaria interpres, ruddy turnstone and other birds

Arenaria interpres, ruddy turnstone and other birds
Large Series plate 15, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Background imageArenaria Collection: Arenaria interpres, ruddy turnstone

Arenaria interpres, ruddy turnstone
Plate 72, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Background imageArenaria Collection: Arenaria norvegica, Norwegian sandwort

Arenaria norvegica, Norwegian sandwort
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageArenaria Collection: Arenaria interpres, Pluvialis apricaria, Pluvialis squatarol

Arenaria interpres, Pluvialis apricaria, Pluvialis squatarol
Plate 139 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 3 (1926)


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