Australasia Collection (page 7)

Four different molluscs
Watercolour 397 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled gna-go-rang, from the Watling Collection

Dasyurus maculatus, spotted quoll

Reptilia (class), snake
Watercolour 57 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

A native spearing a kangaroo
Drawing 74 from the Watling Collection titled A Native spearing a Kangaroo by a Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

View looking across Sydney Cove towards the wooded north sho
Drawing LS 9 from the Watling Collection titled South View of Sydney-Cove, taken from the General Spring nigh the Eastern entrance to Pitts Row by a Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Moon-lit fishing scene
Drawing 49 from the Watling Collection titled A New South Wales Native stricking fish by moonlight by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

A view of Government House and outbuildings, Sydney Cove
Drawing 19 from the Watling Collection titled A View of Governor Philips House Sydney Cove Port Jackson taken fron NNW by a Port Jackson Painter, 1789-1792

Eucalyptus lehmanni, bushy yate
Plate 55 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Solanum hystrix, Afghan thistle
Plate 107 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Thysanotus patersonii, twining fringe-lily
Plate 212 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Portrait of an Aboriginal woman named Dirr-a-goa
Drawing 35 from the Watling Collection titled Dirr-a-goa by Thomas Watling, 1792-1797

Petaurus breviceps, sugar glider
Marsupial, Native name Dab-bie, possibly by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c. 1797, held at the Natural History Museum

Norfolk Island drawing 4
A sketch taken from Botanical Drawings from Australia by Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826)

Paraplesiops bleekeri, eastern blue devil
Watercolour 376 by Thomas Watling entitled Thorral Ga ne ra, from the Watling Collection

Amoria undulata, wavy volute
Watercolour 393 by the Port Jackson Painter, from the Watling Collection

A Norfolk Island Hand Adges
Drawing 79 from the Watling Collection titled A Norfolk Island Hand Adges by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Drawing 434 from the Watling Collection by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

New Zealand copal
A piece of New Zealand copal or Kauri gum with crazed surface. Specimen is less than 40, 000 years old. Copal is the mid-stage between resin and amber

Gyrostemon ramulosus, sandhill corkbark
Plate 123 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Thyrsites atun, barracuda
Watercolour 372 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Wel-gnoo-roo, from the Watling Collection

Charonia rubicunda, red australwelk
Watercolour 387 by Thomas Watling, entitled Nag-ga-rang, from the Watling Collection

Mr. Waterhouse endeavouring to break the Spear after Govr Ph
Drawing 24 from the Watling Collection - Mr. Waterhouse endeavouring to break the Spear after Govr Phillips was wounded by Wil-le-me-ring where the Whale was cast on shore in Manly Cove

Wounded aboriginal man in a classical pose
Drawing 52 from the Watling Collection titled A Native wounded while asleep by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Portrait of an Aboriginal man decorated for a funeral
Drawing 69 from the Watling Collection titled A Moo.bee Ornamented after a Burial by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

The plains of New South Wales, with characteristic animals
Plate 12 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)

Cephalotus follicularis Labill, pitcher plant
Collected by Robert Brown at King George Sound, Western Australia, Dec 1801-Jan 1802, during the voyage of HMS Investigator, captained by Matthew Flinders

Mammalia (class), mammals
Plate 11 from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earths surface, by Alfred Russel Wallace, 1876

Premna serratifolia L. aloalo
Collected by Robert Brown on Goods Island, Torres Strait, Northern Australia, 2nd November 1802. During the voyage of HMS Investigator, Captained by Matthew Flinders

Farm Cove, Sydney, Australia
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Termite Nests, Cape York, Torres Straits
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Darling Point, Sydney, Australia
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Elizabeth Bay, view across beach from Darling Point. Sydney
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Road through suburbs
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Hexagonella, bryozoan
A 5 cm long branch of Hexagonella from the Permian of Australia. This cystoporate bryozoan has polygonal subcolonies bounded by ridges

New Zealand Natives
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Metaldetes
A small block of limestone, 5 cm across, from the Cambrian of South Australia, containing sectioned specimens of the archaeocyathan sponge Metaldetes

Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Mount Tarawera and Lake Rotomahana, Rotorua, New Zealand
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Parramatta, Sydney, Australia
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Rotomah Men
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Wellington, New Zealand
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Nest of Megapodins, Cape York
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia

Precious opal in ironside nodule
Opals are not truely crystalline and are therefore mineraloids. They comprise of (hydrated silica glass). Specimen found in Queensland, Australia. On display at the Natural History Museum, London

View of Wellington, New Zealand
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

New Zealand scenery
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Camp of Aboriginals, Cape York
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Steam Pinnace, Sydney
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

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