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Sir Joseph Banks herbarium and library at Soho SquareSir Joseph Banks herbarium and part library in his house at 32 Soho Square, London. It remained there until 1827 when it was moved to the British Museum at Montagu House
Great argonaut, cuttlefish and flying squidGreat argonaut, Argonauta argo 1, cuttlefish, Sepia tuberculata 2 and European flying squid, Todarodes sagittatus 3. Polpo dell argonauta, Seppia tubercolata, Calamajo sagittato
Kraken attacking a fishing boat off the coast of AngolaKraken or giant cuttlefish attacking a fishing boat off the coast of Angola. After a description by Pierre Denys de Montfort in his Natural History of the Mollusca
Clubhook squid, European squid and cuttlefishCommon clubhook squid, Onychoteuthis banksii 1, European squid, Loligo vulgaris 2, and cuttlefish, Sepia species. Totano di Banks, Totano comune, Totano seppia
Range of marine life found at the seaside - octopus, squid or decapod, smallest British cuttlefish, sea slug, and periwinkle. Date: circa 1950s
Common octopus, Octopus vulgaris (Eight-armed cuttlefish, Sepia octopus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare
Humboldt squid, Dosidicus gigas (Balloon cuttlefish, Sepia tunicata). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder
Dr Karl Jordan (1875-1972)Curator of entomology at Walter Rothschilds Zoological Museum at Tring from 1893, beyond Rothschilds death and up to the transition to the Natural History Museum at Tring in 1938
Emma Rothschild (1844-1935)Mother of Tring Museum founder Walter Rothschild
Emu, rheas and kangaroos at Tring ParkLive animals collected by Walter Rothschild in the grounds of Tring Park, with keeper Mr Marcham, 1890 Date: 1890
Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1933Packed for shipping. The majority of Rothschilds (280, 000 items) bird skin collection was sold the AMNH in New York after he ran into financial difficulties
Entomology, W. Rothschild Zoological MuseumThe Museum was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum following Rothschilds death in 1937, along with its unique collections of preserved animals
Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1932Packed for shipping. The majority of Rothschilds (280, 000 items) bird skin collection was sold the AMNH in New York after he ran into financial difficulties
Alfred Newton (1829-1907), Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University in the late 19th Century. Newton was an expert ornithologist and tutored Walter Rothschild in anatomy
Eledone cirrhosa, Curled OctopusIllustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection, marked Sepia octopodia
Sepia officinalis, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Sepia elegans, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Fossils of extinct marine cephalopods, ancestors to the squid and cuttlefish, from the Jurassic.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus with cuttlefish and pterodactyls.. Lithograph after an illustration by J. Smit from H. N. Hutchinsons Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days, Chapman and Hall
Cuttlefish dissection drawingTable LI, taken from Bibel der Natur byJan Swammerdamm
Sepia craveri, fossil cuttlefishAn extinct marine fossil invertebrate, a relative to todays cuttlefish from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta