Great Britain Collection (page 13)

Cassiterite pseudomorphous after orthoclase
Brown granular cassiterite (tin oxide) have replaced twinned orthoclase crystals. Wheal Coates, St. Agnes, Cornwall

Megapezia footprints
Shown here are the fossilized footprints thought to have been made c. 340m yrs ago by Megapezia. Specimen originates from Yorkshire, England

Quarry scene, Tilgate Forest
Quarry scene in the Tilgate Forest, frontispiece from Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex (1827) by G. A. Mantell

Connellite
Deep-blue velvety crust of needles with some red cuprite. Connellite comprises of (hydrated copper sulphate chloride hydroxide). Specimen from Wheal Muttrell, Gwennap, Cornwall

Calymene, trilobite
This specimen dates from the Middle Silurian, Worcestershire. Trilobites are among the earliest fossils known and ranged from the Lower Cambrian (540 million years ago)

Sphalerite
Drusy aggregates of black lustrous crystals. Sphalerite or zinc blende comprised of (zinc iron sulphide). Specimen from Nenthead, Cumbria

Exterior view of The Natural History Museum, London
View of the Waterhouse Building from Cromwell Road with iron gates in foreground. Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Detail view of the Central Hall ceiling at the Natural Histo
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Ophioderma egertoni (Broderip), brittlestar
Brittlestars belong to the echinoderms and are a close relative of sea stars. This specimen dates from the Middle Lias of the Jurassic from Bridport, Dorset c. 195-189 million years old

Visitors viewing an Opthalmosaurus skeleton in the Central Hall of The Natural History Museum, London

Wood tin, variety of cassiterite
Dark-brown banded aggregates of cassiterite intergrown with white quartz and black tourmaline. Cassiterite comprises of (tin oxide). This polished specimen is from West Kitty mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall

Detail view of the Central Hall at the Natural History Museu
Detail of the main staircase in the Central Hall. Designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905), the Museum opened to the public in 1881

Floodlit view of the Natural History Museum, London
Viewed from the south side of Cromwell Road. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) in the 1860s and opened to the public on Easter Monday 1881

Tetrahedrite

Pyromorphite

Pholiodophorus bechei, fossil fish
A bony fish specimen preserved in the Jurassic rocks near Lyme Regis, Dorset

Rhinocerotidae, rhinoceros
Mounted specimen of a rhinoceros on display in the Mammals Gallery within the Life Gallleries at the Natural Hisotry Museum, London

Mendipite is exclusive to the Mendips of Somerset. This specimen is from Merehead Quarry. Mendipite belongs to the oxyhalides and hydroxyhalides group

The Geological Museum, London
The gemstones display area, rock face and wall cases on the Ground Floor of the Geological Museum, now part of the Natural History Museum, London. Photograph taken 1973

Permian desert
An artists impression of the Permian desert with huge sandunes and sandstone mountains (290 to 248 million years ago) in Northern England

Palaeontology Wing of The Natural History Museum
An extension to The Natural History Museum opened on 24 May 1977

Jaw of Stephanorhinus hemitoechus, the narrow-nosed rhinocer
Lower jaw of a narrow-nosed rhinoceros, Stephanorhinus hemitoechus dating back to the Pleistocene, 1.8 million years to 10, 000 years ago. This specimen was unearthed in Ilford, Essex, England

Petrified conifer trunk
Containing precious opal, width approx. 10 cm, discovered at White Cliffs, New South Wales, Australia. Dates back to the Late Cretaceous period

Proceratosaurus fossil skull
A fossil skull that belonged to Proceratosaurus, a carnivorous, dinosaur from the suborder of Theropods that lived during the Middle Jurassic period around 169 - 164 mya

Heulandite crystal group on matrix, from Kilpatrick, Dumbartonshire. One of the group of Zeolites. Zeolites are microporous crystalline solids containing silicon, aluminium and oxygen

Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & Loxodonta africana, Africa
Asian elephant above noted as E. Indicus, African elephant below noted as E. Africanus. Plate 39, engraving from Edinburgh Journal Natural History Vol. 1, 1835-39

Lingula beani, brachiopod
This Jurassic lingulid brachiopod from Yorkshire is a tongue shaped brachiopod, and is composed of calcium phosphate with a shiny lustre which contrasts here with the clay matrix

Iguanodon model at Crystal Palace
A concrete model of the Iguanodon, as conceived by Professor Sir Richard Owen. It is located in the grounds of Crystal Palace, London and was worked on by Waterhouse Hawkins and Joseph Paxton in 1854

Acidaspis coronata, spiny trilobite
A spiny odontopleurid Silurian trilobite from Worcestershire, England preserved in limestone. The specimen length is 2.5 cms

Palaeocene volcanic landscape, Antrim
An artists impression of Palaeocene (65 to 54.8 million years ago) volcanic landscape in Antrim, Northern Ireland, Britain

Dioon edule, chestnut dioon
A watercolour illustration of the cones belonging to a male chestnut dioon (Dioon edule). Original artwork part of the James Yates (1789-1871) collection presented by the Linnean Society, 1914

The Natural History Museum Wildlife Garden
The wildlife garden at the Natural History Museum, London

The Bird Gallery at The Natural History Museum, London. 1944
The Bird Gallery was located on the ground floor in the west wing. On 11 July 1944 a flying bomb landed in Cromwell Road and all the glass in the west wing, inside and out, was broken

Flint tool from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Pakefield flint tools
Flint tools from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Flint tools from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Marskea jurassica, conifer
A Middle Jurassic conifer shoot on a fallen block from the cliffs near Whitby, North Yorkshire

Stephanoceras humphriesianum, ammonite
This fossil cephalopod originates from the Inferior Oolite, Middle Jurassic rocks near Sherbourne, Dorset dating from about 170 million years ago

Kosmoceras acutistriatum, ammonite
This Jurassic ammonite from Wiltshire, England occurs in a fine-grained shale, but has been severely flattened. However, the original lustre of the shell has been retained

Edinburgh volcano
Illustration of the Edinburgh Volcano erupting in the late Palaeozoic period (543 to 248 million years ago), superimposed onto a modern aerial photograph of the city

Cenoceras pseudolineatus, nautiloid
A section cut and polished through Jurassic nautiloid from Dorset, UK. Shows the internal chambers filled or partly filled with calcite. Diameter 7cm

The Palaeontology Wing at The Natural History Museum, London
The Palaeontology wing extending to the east of the main Museum frontage, was opened in May 1977 it provides 10, 000 square meters of floor area over seven floors for the study

Shale
A specimen of shale containing small nodules of clay ironstone from the Lower Coal Measures, Brynamman, Carmarthenshire

Charles Darwins Study, Down House, Kent
Charles Darwins family house now administered by English Heritage

Didymograptus murchisoni, graptolite
This is an Ordovician tuning-fork shaped graptolite from Wales. Graptolites are an extict group of marine, colonial animals

Anglian ice sheet
A reconstruction of the front of the Anglian ice sheet in Precambrian (4, 500 to 543 million years ago) north London

Excavations at Piltdown circa 1913
Charles Dawson (left) and Dr A Smith Woodward (right)

Ammonite marble
Asteroceras (large shells) and Promicroceras (small shells) ammonites, seen here in the polished surface of a specimen of marble originating from the Lower Lias, near Yeovil, Somerset

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