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The AvalanchePlate 20 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated withdesigns by Joseph Wolf, London 1874. Date: 1874
Pygmy elephant tooth shown here next to one of normal size. Discovered around 1901 by Dorothea Bate (1878 - 1951)
Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (1858-1929)Portrait of Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas, a British zoologist. Painting, oil on canvas, by J. Ernest Braun, 1904. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London
Stag Beetle Collection of Hughes BomansA sample from some 32, 000 stag beetles collected by French entomologist Hughes Bomans
Bandages from a calf mummy
British Museum (Natural History) New Fossil Mammal Gallery PA poster advertising the New Fossil Mammal Gallery Pleistocene Section which opened in 1970. One of the many fossils displayed in the gallery was a Giant Irish Elk, which is depicted in this poster
Cervus unicolor brookeiPhotograph of BM(NH) 1.3.13.1 Cervus unicolor brookei, Sarawak
Sus scrofa, European wild boarEuropean wild boar piglets. Stuffed specimens on display in Gallery 5 at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London
Megaloceros, Irish elkAlso known as Irish elk, Megaloceros lived across Europe and western Asia until it became extinct about 8, 000 years ago
Buenos Ayres Bullock-wagonsIllustration (p.150) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890
Exhibition of a giraffe to the publicA printed poster advertising the last week of the magnificent living Giraffe or camelopardalis with its Nubian attendant
Bubalus bubalis, Indian water buffaloThese are the largest Indian water buffalo horns ever recorded, each almost 2 metres long
Chiasognathus grantii Stephens, stag beetleThis member of the Lucanidae family was written about by Charles Darwin in chapter 10 of his book The Descent of Man
Exhibition of a giraffe to the public, ManchesterA printed poster advertising the exhibition of a giraffe from the Surrey Zoological Gardens, displayed in Piccadilly, Manchester
Madoqua saltiana, Salts dik-dikOn display in the Natural History Museums whale and mammal gallery (number 24). Its common name, dik-dik (or dikdik) is thought to have dervied from the sound it makes whilst running
Hoxnian anters, bones & hand axe from SwanscombePart of a deer antler, fragment of elephant bone and flint hand axe all discovered at Swanscombe, Kent, south of the River Thames
Cervus unicolor brookei, sambar deerPhotograph of BM(NH) 1.3.13.1 Cervus unicolor brookei, Sarawak
Boys sketching giraffes, 1949. The Natural History MuseumFor the really keen young naturalist aged between 10 and 15, a Junior Naturalists Club was established. Entry was gained by producing a piece of fieldwork to prove ones dedication to the study of
Simias sp. pig-tailed monkey from SumatraIllustration from Gleanings of Natural History (1758-74) by George Edwards (1694-1773)
Mazama canepestris guaszuti designDrawing 62 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s
Bison bison, American bisonPlate 123 (414) Le Bison d Amerique from Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 1, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier
Cow and calf designDrawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881
Moschus chrysogaster, alpine musk deerPlate 191 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)
Sonchus palustris, marsh sow-thistleOne of the 36 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the North Hall at the Natural History Museum, London
Cervidae (family), deerBalgowan (deer park in Perthshire, Scotland). Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)
Capreolus capreolus, western roe deerPlate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)
Sus sp. hog, Siamese breedPlate 2 from The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands Vol. 2, 1842, by David Low (1786-1859)
Sus scrofa, wild boarPlate 1 from The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands Vol. 2, 1842, by David Low (1786-1859). Entitled Wild Boar and Sow
Cervus xanthopygus, deerPlate 21 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)
Antilope caudata, blackbuckPlate 23 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)
Lama glama, llamaLlama. Llama Glama, July 23 1884. Hand coloured lithograph of a drawing by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins from Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall; Hoofed Quadrupeds, 1850
Dama dama, fallow deerPlate 38 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21
Antilope cinerea, Chinese goralPlate 70 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)
Antilope edwardsii, goralPlate 72 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)
Cervulus lacrymansPlate 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)
Ovis nahoorPlate 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)
Moschus moschiferus, Siberian musk deerPlate 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)
Hexaprotodon liberiensis, hippopotamusPlate 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)
Elaphodus cephalophus, tufted deerPlate 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)
Giant deer, February 1893. The Natural History Museum, LondPhotographed 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
Bovidae (family), bovidPlate 74 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)
Detail of manuscript textRelating to Plate 103 from the Loten Collection, 1754-57, a painting depicting Tragulus javanicus, lesser mouse-deer, by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere (1722-c. 1781). Image under record 6372
Blade of grass from a cowScanning electron microscope image of a blade of grass from a cows stomach (x 175 on a standard 9 cm wide print)
Camelus bactrianus, bactrian camelPlate 216 (326) Le Chameau. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 2, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier
Folio 16 from A Collection of Flowers by John EdwardsFolio 16 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Hemitragus jemlahicus, tahr
Antler baton (Goughs Cave)Reindeer antler baton excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, (Creswellian)
Budorcas taxicolor, takinPlate 145a from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)