Flowering Plant Collection (page 11)

Pressed Tulip specimens
Specimens from the herbarium of Mary Somerset (the Duchess of Beaufort). Pressed by the Duchess herself (1630 - 1714)

Cordia laevis
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Tahitian
Illustration (p.438) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Camelia cv
Plate 88 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Asclepias arborescens
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Plantago hirsuta
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Sketch of Tradescantia by Robert Brown
A sketch by Robert Brown, the eminent botanist

Teucrium abutiloides
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Strobilantes
Ruellia. Plate 70 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Oxalis filifolia
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Megalomys desmarestii, antillean giant rice rat. Catalogue number NHM 1855.12.24.201

Hans Sloane Vol. 211 page 29
Viola violacea Makino, Oxalis corniculata and Trachelospermum asiaticum Nakai. Specimens taken from Hans Sloane Vol.211 page 29

Myrsine retusa
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Tulipa gesneriana, garden tulip
Plate 1135 from Curtiss Botanical Magazine (1808). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Specimens (including butterflies) from the Paul Hermann Coll
Specimens from the Paul Hermann collection of five volumes of specimens and drawings from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 1672-1677. Held at The Natural History Museum, London

Trapa natans, var. bispinosa
Image of trapa natans var. bispinosa in Plants of the Coast of Coromandel by W. Roxburgh

Oligoryzomys victus, St. Vincent pygmy rice rat (holotype). Catalogue reference NHM 1897.12.26.1)

The Wellington Tree Cupboard
This tree was made from an elm tree that sheltered the Duke of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo, in Belgium

Arum auritum
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Fossil Wood
Fossilised palm from the North African desert that supposedly carries a curse

Theobroma cacao
Cocoa plant brought back from Jamaica in 1689 by Hans Sloane. Illustration by Everhardus Kickius. Specimen kept in the Botany Library

Rheum nobile, Sikkim rhubarb
Specimen of Sikkim rhubarb (Rheum nobile) collected by Frank Ludlow, George Sherriff and N M Elliot in Tibet in 1947

Pressed Auricula specimens
Specimens from the herbarium of Mary Somerset (the Duchess of Beaufort). Pressed by the Duchess herself (1630 - 1714)

Magnolia conspicua, lily-flowered magnolia
Plate 1621 from Curtiss Botanical Magazine (1814). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Lilium trigris, tiger lily pollen
Lilium tigris pollen grains, page 38 from Drawings by Francis Bauer depicting epidermis, hairs, pollen grains and Moustrosities

Wachendorfia

Platanus x hispanica, London plane leaves
London plane leaves fallen in the Natural History Museum Wildlife Garden. Photo taken on November 1997 by Sue Snell

A collection of eggs from western Asia

Nymphaea rubra, red indian water lily see 40246
Plate 1160 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1790. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Solandra sp. cup of gold

Beta vulgaris, common beet
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Quercus, pollard oak
Plate 22 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty two species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. The series was originally issued in 1771

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

Cannabis sativa, hemp
Illustration of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa), by James Kerr (1738-1782). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Empidonax virescnes, Elliottia racemosa, Callirrhoe triangul
Acadian flycatcher, elliottia, poppy mallow and pipit. Drawing 20 (Ewan 46) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram

Plate 48 from Mineralogie
Mine d Or granuleuse avec du Spath perle couleur de Rose. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.6 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Malus sp. apple
Plate 11 from Pomona Franconica, Vol 3 (1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Entitled Calville rouge d Automne

Three varieties of cherries
Plate 13 from Pomona Britannica (1812) by George Brookshaw. Top: morello cherry (Prunus cerasus), centre: caroon cherry (Prunus sp.), bottom: unnamed (Prunus sp.)

Crataegus monogyna, oneseed hawthorn
Drawing 58/2b made in 1903 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Lophura ignita macartneyi, Tragopan melanocephalus
Plate 70, lithograph by K.I. Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der V� -Gattungen, (1831-1833)

Nigella hispanica, fennel flower
Drawing 1/20 made in 1905 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cereus napoleonis, strawberry-pear
Plate 12 from Endlichers paradisus vindobonesis (1844-1860) by Anton Hartinger. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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