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Dryas Collection

Background imageDryas Collection: Dryad, striped grayling and great sooty satyr

Dryad, striped grayling and great sooty satyr
Dryad, Minois dryas, striped grayling, Hipparchia fidia, and great sooty satyr, Satyrus ferula. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel

Background imageDryas Collection: Primulina dryas

Primulina dryas (Chirita sinensis). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l Europe

Background imageDryas Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 644

Curtis British Entomology Plate 644
Hymenoptera: Mesoleptus waltoni Curtis = Sympherta fusicornis [Plant: Dryas octopetala (Mountain Avens)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageDryas Collection: Siberian Lemming - skull in tundra (typical scene

Siberian Lemming - skull in tundra (typical scene due to a high lemming population), next to a flowering White Dryas (Dryas octopetala) plant (Lemmus sibiricus)

Background imageDryas Collection: Dryas Drummondii (Drummonds mountain-avens)

Dryas Drummondii (Drummonds mountain-avens), a flowering perennial of the Rosaceae family, with yellow flowers. It is a wild plant, native to North America

Background imageDryas Collection: Flint tools used by reindeer hunters. Solbjerg, Lolland. Ahr

Flint tools used by reindeer hunters. Solbjerg, Lolland. Ahr
Flint tools used by reindeer hunters. From the camp at Solbjerg, Lolland. Ahrensburg Culture. Mesolithic. Northwestern Europe. 9500 BC. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Background imageDryas Collection: Yellow-flowered or Drummonds mountain avens

Yellow-flowered or Drummonds mountain avens, Dryas drummondii.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan

Background imageDryas Collection: Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas)

Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas)
Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas, White Dryad), an arctic-alpine flowering plant of the Rosaceae family, with creamy coloured petals. Seen here growing in a rocky setting


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