Day Time Collection (page 8)

Aglais urticae, small tortoiseshell butterfly
Scanning electron microscope image showing the head of a small tortoiseshell butterfly (x 25 on a standard 9cm wide print). This image has been coloured artificially by computer

Natural History Museum Pond
View from the Pond in the Natural History Museum Wildlife Garden

Felis silvestris ornata, Asian steppe wildcat
Felis ornata. 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)

View of the entrance into Port Jackson Harbour
Drawing 4 from the Watling Collection titled A View of the Entrance into Port Jackson Harbour by a Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Parus ater, coal tit, Parus major, great tit
Plate 25 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

View across Sydney Cove from the hospital towards Government
Drawing LS 6 from the Watling Collection titled Taken from the West side of Sydney Cove behind the Hospital by Thomas Watling, 1792-1797

Whaling boats
A photograph from A Cruise in the Arctic (1888) by Livingstone-Learmonth

Bombycilla garrulus, Bohemian waxwing
Plate 34 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

Le deluge asiatique
Fig 312 from La Terre Avant Le Deluge (1863) by Par Louis Figuier

Drawing 22 from the Watling Collection

Sturnus vulgaris, starling

Resin from a cedar tree
Resin oozing from under the bark of a cedar tree. Resin once fossilised becomes amber. Figure 3 from Amber The Natural Time Capsule

North view of Sydney Cove
Drawing 17 from the Watling Collection titled North view of Sydney Cove; taken from the Flag-staff, opposite the Observatory by a Port Jackson Painter, 1793-1795

Flycatcher, elliottia, purple malve and pipit
Drawin 19 from the Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 1756-1788 by William Bartram. Original artwork held in the Natural History Museum, London

Ramphastos dicolorus, red-breasted toucan

Saxicola rubetra, whinchat, Saxicola torquata, common stonec
Plate 7 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

Passer montanus, tree sparrow, Pyrrhula pyrrhula, Eurasian b
Plate 40 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

Dasyurus viverrinus, eastern native cat or quoll
Native names Mer-re-a-gan and Din-e-gow-a. Detail from drawing 84, possibly by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c

Exterior view of The Natural History Museum at Tring
This was once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild, and has been part of the Natural History Museum since 1937

View of Sydney Cove from the North shore of the harbour
Drawing LS 7 from the Watling Collection titled A Direct North View of Sydney Cove and Port Jackson, the Chief British Settlement in New South Wales by Thomas Watling, 1792-1797

Bryum capillare, bryum mosses
Bryum mosses (bryum capillare) are noticed more in the Natural History Museums Wildlife Garden during the winter months when other plants have died back. Photograph taken by Derek Adams, 2003

Taraxacum offininale, dandelion clock
Dandelion seeds (Taraxacum offininale) in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photograph taken by Derek Adams, April 2003

Paving stones in the Wildlife Garden

Panoramic: Landscape in Madeira 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Sugar Plantation, St. Thomas 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas, West Indies after a hurricane
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Hyacinthoides nonscripta, bluebell
Bluebells (Hyacinthoides nonscripta) growing in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. May 2003

Leucanthemum vulgare, oxeye daisy
Oxeye daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare) growing in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, May 2003

Prof. Charles Wyville Thomson (right) and Dr. Rudolf von Wil
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Cochineal Plantation, Tenerife
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Group of seamen, St. Thomas, West Indies 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Cemetary, St. Thomas, West Indies (1873)
The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes and seems to have been the first expedition to carry an official photographer as well as an

Bryum capillare, bryum moss
When more vigorous plants have died back, bryum mosses (Bryum capillare) are revealed in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photograph taken by Derek Adams, April 2003

Landscape in Madeira
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Mycteria leucocephala, painted stork
Plate 23 by Sydney Parkinson from the Loten Collection

Landscape in Madeira 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Dragon Tree, Tenerife 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Wilds Drawing Animals from Dredge
The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes and seems to have been the first expedition to carry an official photographer as well as an

Townscape in Madeira 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Funchal, Madeira 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Rosa sp. wild rose
Close-up of a wild rose (Rosa sp.) flower growing in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, May 2003

The Mole, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Papau tree
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Charlotte Amalia, St. Thomas, West Indies 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Alnus glutinosa catkin, alder catkin
Bryum mosses (bryum capillare) are noticed more in the Natural History Museums Wildlife Garden during the winter months when other plants have died back. Photograph taken by Derek Adams, 2003

Dandelion growing in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photographed by Derek Adams, May 2003

Euselates sp. rose chafer beetle
A colourful rose chafer beetle photographed in Sri Lanka. Chafer beetles have a characteristic V-shape where their wings meet and are a member of the same family as dung beetles

Detail of terracotta moulding of an octopus in the Waterhous

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