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Anoplotherium commune & gracile, PalaeotheriumSheet 4 of a series of posters called Extinct Animals by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862. This collection of mammals could be found during the Eocene epoch some 50 million years ago
Stuart Stammwitz working on blue whale model, 1938, The NatuStuart Stammwitz is shown here working on the whales eye, before the model was painted
Prionailurus planiceps, flat-headed catFelis planiceps. 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)
Uintatherium skullSkull measures 740 mm left to right. Uintatherium, a horned ungulate from the mid Eocene of western U.S.A, stood about 1.6m at the shoulder
Salix caprea, goat willow treeAn illustrative plate of goat willow foliage and catkins from the Botany Library Plate Collection, held at the Natural History Museum, London
Talpa europaea, European molePlate 123 Common Mole. Original watercolour drawing from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 3, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine (1800-1874)
Muntiacus muntjak, Indian muntjacZoological drawing 6 (1:6) Cervus plicatus. Pencil outline, lateral and front views, of head of Indian muntjac, made by Sydney Parkinson (1745-1771) during Captain Cooks first voyage of discovery
Woolly MammothIllustration of a woolly mammoth in a snowy landscape
Varecia variegata, ruffed lemurLS Plate 74 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856
Buffalo cart with wheels, Manila, Luzon, PhilippinesA photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes
Kita a Norwegian elkhound, photographed by Harry Taylor
22, 000 - 30, 000 years old Venus figuresLeft to right. a) In fired clay from Moravia. b) In mammoth ivory from France. The Willendorf Venus c) In limestone from Austria. d) In mammoth ivory from Ukraine
CetiosaurusA sauropod dinosaur which grew up to 60 feet long. It lived about 160 to 170 million years ago in the Midlands and Southern England, during the Upper Juassic perid. Painting by Neave Parker
Gorilla gorilla, western gorillaOil painting on canvas of a western gorilla by Henrik Gr ld (1858-1940), undated. Original held at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London
Upper Palaeolithic tools 18 - 30, 000 years oldL-R: a) Bone used to make needle blanks. b) Bone needle. c & d) Harpoon head and Barbed Point carved from antler. e & f) Two heads carved in mammoth ivory
Babyrousa babyrussa, babirusaPlate 106 from the Loten Collection (1754-57), a painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere (1722-c. 1781)
Geological Gallery Natural History Museum 1892Photograph of the Geological Gallery, with American mastodon in the foreground. July 1892. Archive ref: PH/173/243 Date: 1892
George the elephant, 1935Two attendants brush down the African elephant George in the Central Hall in one of several shots of Museum staff taken by Weekly Illustrated photographers for an article that appeared in February
Panthera tigris, tigerFelis tigris. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. Illustrated with 43 hand-coloured lithographs from watercolour drawings by Joseph Wolf
A Malayan forest, with its characteristic birdsPlate 9 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)
Mesoplodon bidens, Sowerbys beaked whalePlate 12 The Diodon of Sowerby. Hand-coloured engraving of a drawing by James Hope Stewart (1789-1856), from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol
Physeter catodon and Hyperoodon ampullatusSperm whale and northern bottlenose whale. Plate 45 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21
Delphinus delphis, short-beaked common dolphinPlate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)
Mammal and Whale GalleryModels of an Asiatic elephant (left) and an African elephant (right), on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24) at the Natural History Museum, London
Loxodonta africana, African elephantA close-up of an African elephant adult male bull, on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London
Gorilla gorilla gorilla, western lowland gorilla
Plecotus sp. long-eared batA long-eared bat in flight (a microbat belonging to the Vespertilionidae family of vesper or evening bats). Photograph published in Bats by Phil Richardson, a Natural History Museum publication, 2002
Augustus H. Bishop with elephant tusks, May 1912Augustus Bishop arrived at the Museum in 1904, aged 23, after three years training as a taxidermist
African elephant in Central Hall, February 1910Photographed in 1910 just three years after his arrival, the African elephant later nicknamed George, was obtained from the taxidermists Rowland Ward Ltd
The Natural History Museum at TringGallery 3 at the Natural History Museum at Tring, the sister museum of the Natural History Museum, London
Eulemur macaco, black lemurPlate 217 from Capter 7 of Gleanings of Natural History Vol. 5 by George Edwards (1694-1773), published 1758-1764. Entitled The Black Maucauco
Sus moupinensis, wild hogPlate 80 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)
Lynx sp. lynxStuffed specimen from the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London
Mastodon in Geological Gallery, December 1919The Guide Lecturer, John Henry Leonard, took this shot of two girls inspecting a primitive elephant or mastodon (Mammut americanus), in December 1919
Tooth from Coelodonta antiquitatis, woolly rhinocerosThis woolly rhino tooth, together with two others were found in 1668 at Chartham, near Canterbury in Kent by natural historian John Somner
George in the entrance, April 1927, the Natural History MusThe removal of George the African elephant from the Central Hall in April 1927 for remounting
Prionailurus bengalensis, Leopard catWatercolour from John Reeves Collection; c.1820s Date: 1820
Wallaces Orang UtanPongo pygmaeus, bornean orangutan specimen. An Alfred Russel Wallace specimen
Megalomys desmarestii, antillean giant rice rat. Catalogue number NHM 1850.11.30.6
Oligoryzomys victus, St. Vincent pygmy rice rat (holotype). Catalogue reference NHM 1897.12.26.1)
The AvalanchePlate 20 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated withdesigns by Joseph Wolf, London 1874
Davallia canariensis (L. ) Sm. hares foot fernSketch 18, Newfoundland Volume. From a collection of original drawings and sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Ceratotherium simum, white rhinocerosWhite rhinoceros. Sketch 121 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)
Capparis canescens, dog capersOutline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771
AntelopeFf. 24. Drawing by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain James Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775
Engraved mammoth tuskMammoth tusk engraved of Grevettian age. 25, 000 - 30, 000 years ago during the Upper Palaeolithic and within the great Stone Age from Dolni Vestonice, Moravia, Czech Republic
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins & giant Elk modelImage is believed to have been taken during this work in Central Park, New York
Model of the Ilford MammothA model of the woolly mammoth found at Ilford, Essex, England, held by Fossil Mammals, Palaeontology