Epitheria Collection (page 13)

Brontotherium skull
Skull measuring 730 mm left to right, without the lower jaw, of Brontotherium, a gigantic Oligocene browsing ungulate from Nabraska, North America

Rhinopithecus roxellanae, snub-nosed monkey
Plate 36 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Huso huso, beluga sturgeon
Plate 10 from Fishes of Economic Importance of the USSR by Lev Semenovich Berg and others (1949)

Tupaia glis, common tree shrew teeth

Cervulus lacrymans
Plate 63 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Meles sp. badger
Plate 24 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Odobenus rosmarus, walrus
Trichechus rosmarus, walrus. Plate 12 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Ovis nahoor
Plate 68 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Nesolagus netscheri, Sumatran rabbit
Photograph, viewed from above, of a Sumatran rabbit skin specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Homo sapiens cranium (UC 101)
Skull UC 101 discovered at the upper cave (Shandingdong), Zhoukoudian, China. This specimen belonging to Modern Homo sapiens dates back to 30, 000 years ago

Cetiosauriscus stewarti
A fossil front left foot belonging to the Cetiosauriscus, a Sauropod dinosaur, discovered in Peterborough, England. It dates back 158 million years

Felis scripta
Plate 57 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Wold meteorite landing site
Pen and ink sketch showing an obelisk marking the landing site of the Wold Meteorite, Yorkshire, 1812. Image from the Sowerby Collection by Gerrit van Spaendonck

Plate 73 of the Reeves Collection (Zoology)
LS Plate 73 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856

Siphneus fontanierii, mole-rat
Plate 7 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Scaptochirus moschatus, short-faced mole
& Spermophilus mongolicus, ground squirrel. Plate 17 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards

Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale and Balaenoptera physalus
Plate 43 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Osedax mucofloris, North sea marine worm
Osedax mucofloris is also known as the bone-eating snot-flower worm. The remarkable whalebone-eating polychaete worm, shown here dissected from a Minke whale bone that was recovered off the west

Arctocephalus forsteri, New Zealand fur seal
A drawing of the lateral view of the skeleton of a New Zealand fur seal. Figure 7 from Seals of the World by Judith E. King. Published by The British Museum of Natural History, 1964

Phocoena phocoena, common porpoise
Plate 19 Cape Porpoise. Hand-coloured engraving of a drawing by James Hope Stewart (1789-1856), from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 12 Whales, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine

Prosobonia leucoptera, Tahiti sandpiper

Meles obseurus, badger
Plate 62 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Archaic Homo sapiens cranium (Laetoli 18)
A front view of a cranium belonging to Archaic Homo sapiens dating back to 150, 000 years ago. This specimen known as Laetoli 18 was discovered within the Ngaloba bed at Laetoli in Tanazania

British Mammals Title Page
Title page of Vol. 1 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2, written and illustrated with 50 colour plates and pen and ink sketches by Archibald Thorburn F.Z.S

Moschus moschiferus, Siberian musk deer
Plate 19 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Mus flavipectus and Mus griseipectus
Plate 42 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Hexaprotodon liberiensis, hippopotamus
Plate 1 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Leptailurus serval, serval
Ff. 5. Felis capensis. Painting by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

Adriosaurus suessi
Neocomian fossil lizard from the Isle of Lesina, Dalmatia

Eristalis tenax, drone-fly larvae
Eristalis tenax is one of quite a large group of closely related hover-flies which have rat-tailed maggots, i.e. larvae with an elongated breathing tube at the end of their bodies. E

Elaphodus cephalophus, tufted deer
Plate 65 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Ursus speleaus, great cave bear
Fig. 28 from A History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds, by Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), published in 12 parts, 1844-1846

Tupaia glis, common tree shrew
Teeth in the upper mandible of a male comon tree shrew, showing the fundamental mammalian triangle of sharp, pointed cusps. Scale is in millimetres

Canis lupus hodophilax, Japanese wolf
Photograph of the skin of a male Japanese wolf presented to the Natural History Museum by the Duke of Bedford, 1905, together with a skull specimen. See image references 11280, 11281 & 11282

Pteromys melanopterus, Chinese flying squirrel
Plate 15 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Corvus corone, carrion crow
Plate 58 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Talpa sp. mole
LS Plate 81 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856

Rhizomys vestitus, bamboo rat
Plate 46 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Uropsilus soricipes, shrew mole; Mus chevrieri
& Mus ouang-thomae. Plate 40 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Lagomys tibetanus
Plate 48 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Giant deer, February 1893. The Natural History Museum, Lond
Photographed by J.D. Pemberton in February 1893, this Megalocerus giganteus skeleton represents an extinct race of giant deer (not elk) that had a distribution throughout Europe

Cetiosauriscus stewarti fossil teeth
Fossil teeth belonging to the Cetiosauriscus, a Sauropod dinosaur, discovered in Peterborough, England. It dates back 158 million years

Equus asinus, African wild ass
African Wild Ass, Equus taeniopus. Fig. 149 page 53 of The Natural History of Animals (class Mammalia; animals which suckle their young) in Word and Picture, Vol

Equus hemionus, Asian wild ass
Tibetan Wild Ass, Equus hemionus. Fig. 151 on page 55 of The Natural History of Animals (class Mammalia) in Word and Picture, Vol. 2 by Carl Christoph Vogt & Friedrich Specht, 1899

A puma-leopard hybrid
A hybrid of a puma and a leopard, (about 1 metre in length) on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring. Close-up of head

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