Carnivora Collection (page 6)

Gallery 1, The Natural History Museum at Tring
The Natural History Museum at Tring. Once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937), and part of the Natural History Museum, London since 1937

Arctia caja, garden tiger moth
Photograph of a mounted specimen of the garden tiger moth

Tiger specimen, c. 1925
Children viewing a mounted tiger specimen at the Natural History Museum, London

Procyon lotor, common raccoon
The right side of a common raccoon skull specimen, held at the Natural History Museum. Phototgraph published on page 250 of the Dorling Kindersley Nature Encyclopedia, 1998. See also 28779

Passerella iliaca, fox sparrow
Plate 108 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

The King of Beasts
Plate 16 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated with designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

The Siesta
Plate 9 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

Strategy Versus Strength
Plate 7 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

The Struggle
Plate 3 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

A Hair-Breadth Escape
Plate 2 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

Przewalskium albirostris, white-lipped deer
The Falklands fox, also known as the Falkland Islands wolf or the Warrah, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands. It became extinct in 1876 (on West Falkland island)

Dusicyon australis, Falkland Islands fox
The Falklands fox, also known as the Falkland Islands wolf or the Warrah, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands. It became extinct in 1876 (on West Falkland island)

Pleistocene Britain, Swanscombe waterhole
Diorama of Pleistocene (1.8 million to 11, 000 years ago) waterhole in Swanscombe, Kent, Britain, with elephant, fallow deer, rhinoceros, bear, bison, and man living in open grassland. See image 405

Canis latrans, coyote
Canis Latrans (Say), Prairie Wolf (Males). Plate 71 from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Vol. 2 (1846) by John James Audubon (1785-1851) and John Bachman (1790-1874)

Casts of artifacts from Czech Republic
Ivory running lion, ivory ornamant and a lionesss head in fired clay; all 25, 000 - 30, 000 years old (Upper Palaeolithic) from Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic

Pongo sp. Mandible with canine (Piltdown 1)
Left lateral view of the Piltdown mandible reported to be that of a newly found homind species in 1913 but then revealed as a forgery in 1953. Specimen held at The Natural History Museum, London

Models of Pompeii victims
Models of the Pompeii, Italy eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, including a dog on display in The Power Within Gallery at the Natural History Museum, London

Pteropus alecto gouldi, black flying fox
Photograph of a black flying fox specimen preserved in spirit, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Little boy with fox, c. 1950
Parents and older siblings were actively discouraged from visiting the Childrens Centre, to ensure that the children were free to be themselves

Man carrying stuffed mammals for the Game Animals of the Emp
The Game Animals of the Empire exhibition opened in the newly built Whale Hall in 1932, as finances dictated that installation of the skeletons and models of whales had to be postponed

Guide Lecturer, 1932
A guide lecturer in 1932 shows visitors around the Game Animals of the Empire exhibition in the Natural History Museum, London

Panthera tigris corbetti, Indochinese tiger
Tiger skin from Laobao, Vietnam. Specimen held at The Natural History Museum, London

Panthera tigris virgata, Persian tiger
Female tiger skin from Afghanistan. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Detail from the Waterhouse building of the Natural History M
Detail of terracotta panel showing a fox with bird designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905). Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Genet a balais, yellow broom
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Bulldog cranium 2004
Specimen number 2004.1034. Bulldog (male), Canis lupus familiaris

Felis silvestris silvestris, European wildcat
Felis catus. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Cat design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

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