Australasia Collection (page 8)

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

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

Watling Collection 69-74: Portrait, tools and landscape

Pachyornis elephantopus, heavy-footed moa
Skeleton of a heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) specimen found in New Zealand during the Holocene period (10, 000 to present). See also T25118

Sarcophilus laniarius, Tasmanian devil
Jaw of a Tasmanian devil from the collections at the Natural History Museum

Pachyornis elephantophus, moa bird
The giant extinct bird seen here is a Moa and is about 5000 years old, found exclusively in New Zealand

Opals are not truely crystalline and are therefore mineraloids. They comprise of (hydrated silica glass). Specimen from Queensland, Australia

Drawings 54-57 from the Watling Collection
54. Native of NSW with a Foygig and throwing stick. 55. Native going to dance, 56. Natives ornamenting themselves. 57. Natives of NSW ornamenting themselves

Drawings 43-46 from the Watling Collection
43. A native fishing. 44. Comoo bee ornamented after a burial. 45. Ablaroo, a moobee after Balloderreeo funeral. 46. native of New South Wales

Dendrolagus lumholtzi, Lumholtzs tree kangaroo
Illustration in watercolour by Frederick William Frohawk. One of 27 illustrations commissioned by Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild to illustrate his scientific publication on tree kangaroos, 1936

Banded iron specimen
This banded iron specimen measures 7 cm thick and is about 3, 000 million years old, from the Murchison Goldfield, Western Australia

Drawings 32-36 from the Watling Collection
32. The sitting attitude of women from New South Wales. 33. Untitled. 34. Nanbree. 35. Dirr-a-Goa. 36. Wearring, known as Mr Long, and Karra da

Coryphaenoides sp. rattail
A specimen jar containing rattail fish (Coryphaenoides sp.) collected south of Australia, 1874 on The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876)

Australian Aborigine tools
Illustrations by Thomas Watling. Drawings 78 to 79 from the Watling Collection

Watling Collection 58-61: Natives of New South Wales, Austra
58. Balloderree, 59. View in Port Jackson, 60. Gna.na.gan.na, 61. Native of New South Wales, Australia. Drawings 58-61 from the Watling Collection

Opal

Australian Aborigine portraits
A collection of illustration by Thomas Watling. Drawings 61 to 68 from the Watling Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Petrified conifer trunk
Containing precious opal, width approx. 10 cm, discovered at White Cliffs, New South Wales, Australia. Dates back to the Late Cretaceous period

Falco novaeseelandiae, New Zealand falcon
Ff. 38. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Falco harpe and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Quadrupeds of Port Essington. An article written by Gilbert, John (1812-1845). Page three of four. Gould Australian Collection 8/2/4

Reptiles of Port Essington. An article written by Gilbert, John (1812-1845). Gould Australian Collection 8/3/2p. Page two of two

Birds obserbed inhabiting the Coburg Peninsula, John Gilbert
Birds inhabiting the Coburg Peninsula. Article taken from the Gould Australian Collection 8/5/3. Written by Gilbert, John assistant to Gould, John (side 2 of 3 sides)

Macropus antilopinus, antilopine wallaby (Gould 1842) BMNH 1842 5 26 5 (291A), male skin and skull lectotype. Photographed alongside is the female specimen BMNH 1824 5 26 4

Sydney Cove
A section of Drawing LS 2 from the Watling Collection titled New South Wales, Port Jackson from the entrance up to Sydney Cove, taken in October 1788 by a Port Jackson Painter, 1788

Aerial shot of Low Isles - Plate 2 B

Aerial photomosaic of the Low Isles. Plate VIII

Low Isles Lab
Photograph of Low Isles Lab with ships in background. Archives ref - DF 421/2

Reptiles from New Zealand
Descriptions of two hitherto unrecorded species of Reptiles from New Zealand. Passage taken from The Zoological Miscellany by John Edward Gray, 1831

Aythya novaeseelandiae, New Zealand scaup
Ff. 79. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Anas atricilla and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, weedy seadragon
Plate 38 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. This amazingly camouflaged fish is endemic to the south Australian coast from central New South Wales to south-western Western Australia

Coral collection
Part of a coral collection given to HM Queen Elizabeth II on behalf of the people of Queensland, Australia

Perameles bougainville, barred bandicoot
Plate 2 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803

Geophaps plumifera, spinifex pigeon
Plate 69, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol. 5 (1840-1848)

Brachaluteres jacksonianus, southern pygmy leatherjacket
Plate 28 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. This is a small compressed fish with no pelvic fins and a prominent dorsal spine

Irediparra gallinacea, comb-crested jacana
Plate 75, hand coloured lihtograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol. 6 (1840-1848)

Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus, crescent honeyeater
Plate 27, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol. 4 (1840-1848)

Trichoglossus haematodus, rainbow lorikeet
Plate 24 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

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