Common Collection (page 19)

Record rainfall, Ealing Common, West London
Record rainfall on the evening of 15 June 1903 at Ealing Common, West London. 1903

John Bull showing how to make constitutional plum pudding
John Bull showing the foreign powers how to make a constitutional plum pudding. The plum pudding of the British constitution rests on the table cloth of the Magna Charta / Carta

Her Majesty Queen Mary visits an East End Garden
A marvellous photograph of Her Majesty Queen Mary (1867-1953) visits an East End Garden (and the owners of said residence) on 10th July 1935

Animals at a French Zoo - Blackfaced kangeroos - kangeroos sitting on Straw. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo

Variety of birds eggs
1- swallow, 2- cuckoo, 3- rook, 4- crow, 5- jackdaw, 6- jay, 7- sparrowhawk, 8- kestrel, 9- ringed plover, 10- snipe, 11- black tern, 12- common tern. Date: 1894

How to Pick up Rabbits
Disputing the common fallacy that rabbits should be picked up by their ears

East of Ilot Gabriel island sea shore with black basalt rocks a wind-battered Common screwpine tree with aerial roots visible endemic for Mascarenes (Mauritius and Reunion) June North of Mauritius

Tailless tenrec Common tenrec adult searches for food and shelter at dawn sea beach near Poste de Flacq June East of Mauritius

Eurasian Ruffe and Millers Thumb
Eurasian Ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua, also known as Ruff, Jack Ruff, Ruffe and Pope), and Millers Thumb (Cottus gobio, also known as Freshwater Sculpin, European Bullhead)

Carassius carassius, or Crucian Carp, a member of the common carp Ciprinidae family. Date: 1865

Solea solea, or Common Sole, also known as Dover Sole and Black Sole, a species of flatfish. Date: 1864

Cottus gobio, or European Bullhead, a freshwater fish also known as Millers Thumb, Freshwater Sculpin, River Bullhead and Common Bullhead. Date: 1863

Pagrus pagrus, or Couchs Sea Bream, also known as Common Seabream, Porgy and Red Porgy. Date: 1862

Common heron, Ardea major, Grey heron, Ardea cinerea.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Common quail, Coturnix coturnix.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Die Herren der Welt (The Masters of the World. When the kings of industry are mad, the common people suffer), cover of Simplicissimus magazine, 1922. Critique of the power of big industries

Crown of an old European Beech / Common Beech Tree - spring - May (Fagus sylvatica L.). Haslemere - Surrey - UK

Common Wonder / Frog-eyed Gecko (Teratoscincus scincus). Central Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

A young Common Monitor Lizard rests (sunbathing in order to raise the body-temperature) on a tree-trunk, fallen in a small stream in rainforest (Varanus salvator)

Common Bottlenose Dolphin - with air bubble rings (Tursiops truncatus). underwater in dolphinarium. controlled conditions

Common Bottlenose Dolphin - with air bubble ring (Tursiops truncatus). underwater in dolphinarium. controlled conditions

Common Wonder Gecko / Frog-eyed Gecko - looks for prey under a bush in sand dunes - licks his eye to prevent it from drying - feeds mostly on insects (Teratoscincus scincus)

Fruit Bats / Common Flying / Large Flying Fox - Hanging from tree, with baby (Pteropus vampyrus). Vietnam. Distribution: S. Burma - Java, Philippines, Borneo, Timor. The largest Bat in the world

Cartoon, Siege Guns of Rhetoric, WW1
Cartoon, Siege Guns of Rhetoric, or how our politicians are helping the work of the services. Showing politicians of different persuasions combining together against the common enemy in the early

Thomas O hagan, Judge
THOMAS O HAGAN Irish judge, justice of the (Irish) Court of Common Pleas Date: 1812 - 1885

WWII - Buy War Bonds - First Day Cover
The Roosevelt-Churchill " Atlantic Charter" of World Freedom - August 1941 - surplanted with a large red V for Victory. Date: 1941

Sempervivum tectorum or common houseleek. Illustration from Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Plantarum succulentarum historia (vol. 1) Date: 1799

Polyommatus icarus, common blue butterfly
Plate 46 from Illustrations of British butterflies and their larvae, with the plants on which they feed (1892) by Theo Johnson

Symphytum officinale, common comfrey
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Hystrichopsylla talpae talpae, mole flea
A macro photograph of the largest flea in the UK, the mole flea (Hystrichopsylla talpae talpae), which is common on small mammals throughout the UK

Lavandula angustifolia, common lavender
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Syringa vulgaris, common lilac
Drawing by Richard Lancake. Image used in The Chelsea Gardener Philip Miller (1990) by Hazel Le Rougetel, plate 2

Prunus sp. large common whiteheart cherry
Illustration from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Gros bigarreau commun

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