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Plan of the British Museum building in BloomsburySeventy separate areas are marked, almost all devoted to the collections, and grouped around the great dome of the Reading Room
British Museum (Natural History) New Fossil Mammal Gallery PA poster advertising the New Fossil Mammal Gallery Pleistocene Section which opened in 1970. One of the many fossils displayed in the gallery was a Giant Irish Elk, which is depicted in this poster
The Wellington Tree CupboardThis tree was made from an elm tree that sheltered the Duke of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo, in Belgium
Parliamentary Enquiry into the Affairs of the British Museum (1835-1836). Annotated by J.E. Gray. Catalogue reference DF 206/4
Tommaso Salvadori (1835-1923)Count Adelaro Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti was one of ten eminent ornithologists who assisted Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Head of the Bird Section. Image shows Tommaso working on flamingoes, c. 1890
Natural History display at Montagu HouseStaircase near the entrance of the old British Museum in Montagu House, 1845. This housed the original collection of the Natural History Museum, London. From a watercolour by George Scharf (1788-1860)
Montagu House, BloomsburyA watercolour, by an unknown artist, showing Montagu House, Bloomsbury, the first home of the British Museum
Amblypterus, palaeoniscid fish
Erasipteron bolsoveri, dragonflyImpression from the wing of an extinct dragonfly-like insect found by Malcolm Spenser in Bolsover coal mine in 1978