Great Britain Collection (page 4)

Cukoo and host eggs
From the collection of ornithologist Edgar Percival Chance (1881 - 1955)

Embalmed whale on tour in England, 1931
A 45 foot whale, the largest ever seen in England, which weighs more than 20 tons, is on a tour of England. It was caught off the coast of Norway and embalmed by Mr

Paleontology Department of the Natural History Museum, Londo
Group photograph of the Paleontology Department of the Natural History Museum, London. Archives 178/3p

Psiloceras planorbis, nacreous ammonite
These specimens of Psiloceras planorbis are Britains earliest ammonites. Part of the William Smith collection

The colonnades of the Natural History Museum, London

Shipworm borings
This block of wood was attacked by Teredo navalis, common shipworm about 50 million years ago

The Darwin Centre Phase One at the Natural History Museum, L
Exterior view of the Darwin Centre Phase One at the Natural History Museum, London

Belemnotheutis antiquus
A well-preserved Upper Jurassic squid aged 160 million years. This specimen originates from the famous clay deposits in Wiltshire

Dinocochlea
A spiral of rock almost three metres long that looks like a giant snail but is a mystery

Fish Dapedium
Well preserved Dapedium fish from the Jurassic period

Goughs Cave artefacts
Replicas and specimens of artefacts found in Goughs Cave, Cheddar Gorge, Somerset

Skull cup found at Goughs Cave
A skull cup identified among human remains from Goughs Cave, Somerset. At around 14, 700 years old, the skull cups are the oldest directly dated examples in the world

Spiranthes romanzoffiana, Irish Lady s-tresses orchid
Species found on Colonsay, Scotland, by Lady Strathcona and A.N. Skelton, July 1930

Boxgrove excavation site
A view of the archaeological excavation site at Boxgrove, West Sussex, UK. The site yielded a very significant fossil find, a tibia and incisors believe to have belonged to a 500

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

Beached whales alive in a Cornish village, 1932
The people of Perranporth, a village not far from Newquay, Cornwall, have just had the surprise of their lives. Eight whales have been found on the beach washed up during a gale

Gargoyle
One of the many gargoyles which adorn the exterior of the Natural History Museum, London. Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s

Part of human perinatal skeleton from Poundbury Cemetery (Romano-British, 2nd / 3rd century A.D.), Dorset

Fake rodent skeleton
Sent to the Museum by amateur palaeontologist Reverend C Green in 1843. The skeleton had not been dug out of the ground whole and bones belonged to different individuals

Carboniferous crinoid garden
Artists impression of Carboniferous (354 to 290 million years ago) underwater crinoid garden

Natural History Museum flag flying at the Natural History Museum, London

Pidcocks Exhibition Alive, Exeter Change, Strand, London
Copper halfpenny token (28mm diameter) dated 1795 made by James. Advertising Pidcocks exhibition of living animals at the Exeter Change, Strand

Hoxnian anters, bones & hand axe from Swanscombe
Part of a deer antler, fragment of elephant bone and flint hand axe all discovered at Swanscombe, Kent, south of the River Thames

Gates of the Natural History Museum, London
An exterior view of the Natural History Museums gates and railings in the snow. Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

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

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