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Tortoise and armadillo comparison
A really strange picture, reminds me of 1960s New York art

Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & Loxodonta africana, Africa
Asian elephant above noted as E. Indicus, African elephant below noted as E. Africanus. Plate 39, engraving from Edinburgh Journal Natural History Vol. 1, 1835-39

Partula affinis, P. otaheitana, French Polynesian tree snail
Plate 29 from Studies on the Genus Partula by Henry Edward Crampton (1916). Found only in French Polynesia this entire genus is on the brink of extinction due to predation from the introduced rosy

Limestone (right) and marble (left)
Limestone is sedimentary and marble is metamorphic in origin. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Topaz
A crystal and a cut topaz stone from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Topaz comprises of (aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide)

A group of mammals and birds
Plate 37, hand coloured engraving, from Thesaurus Volume 1, 1734, by Albertus Seba (1665-1736)

Homo sapiens crania comparison
From Upper Cave Zhoukoudian, China (left and middle) and Predmosti, Czech Republic (right). All dated at about 30, 000 years ago, held at The Natural History Museum, London. Photo by Chris Stringer

Staff posing with blue whale model, 1938
Percy and Stuart Stammwitz were part of the team that built the famous 27m (90 ft) blue whale model, currently on display at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed in January 1938

Strombus tricornis, lightfoot
Shell specimen with Martin Listers engraving from his Historiae Sive Synopsis Methodicae Conchyliorum, 1685-1692, plate 873

Homo sapiens, Australopithecus, Neanderthal and Pan troglody
A display of models of hominids, including human, Australopithecus, Neanderthal and chimpanzee, on display in the Life Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London

Rangifer tarandus, caribou

Partula mirabilis, P. mooreana, French Polynesian tree snai

Skeleton of a bird
Page 41 from Pierre Belons Histoire de la Nature (1555). Compare with skeleton of a man on page 40, (picture ref. 6886)

Tea Tasting at Matheson, McClaren & Co. Edinburgh. Date: 1909

Production and Plunder, campaigning statistics
A slide entitled Production & Plunder, used for a lecture about the South Wales Miners Federation. Statistics are listed, comparing the royalties on the use of coal on the luxury steamer

Chamberlain and the proposed corn tax
A satire on Joseph Chamberlains speech at Bingley Hall, where he produced two loaves (here babies, farmers and tea cups) to illustrate the impact of the proposed corn tax on the size of a loaf

From Bismarck to Buelow. A bigger task for a smaller man
Punch recalls an illustration from their magazine from September 28th, 1878(see picture number 10056473)showing Otto von Bismarck temporarily quashing the Socialist jack in the box

Suffragettes in France
Emmeline Pankhurst (seated on left) and her secretary (miss Lawrence) visit their French sisters to compare notes : Mme Schmahl welcomes them at a Paris meeting

U. s. A. F. Mississipi
United States Air Force jets pursue a UFO which they compare to a tree trunk, over southern Mississippi

San Francisco, in 1848
Compare this 1848 view with our view from 1850, and you ll see the enormous expansion of the town during the Gold Rush of 1849 !

Sandals in Fashion
Three ladies compare their sandals - this years fashionable footwear

Comparing Dances 1882
After the ball, two young women compare notes on the partners they have enjoyed or endured in the course of the evening

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