Great Britain Collection (page 6)

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

Wealden Landscape
Artists impression of vegetation and reptiles of the early Cretaceous, including Iguanodon, in south eastern England

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

Mr William Saville Kent (1834-1910)
Portrait of William Saville Kent, an entomologist and naturalist. A photograph from The Naturalist in Australia (1897) by William Kent

Drawing 22 from the Watling Collection

Plate 20. Mantells Geology of Sussex
Plate 20 from Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex, 1827 by G. A. Mantell

Rhomdeosaurus cramptoni [Kettleness specimen]
Close-up of of a section of foot belonging to the Pliosaur, Rhomdeosaurus cramptoni. This carnivorous marine reptile descended from the plesiosaur

Chalcopyrite or copper pyrite comprises of (copper iron sulphide). It is a common mineral and is found in almost all sulphide deposits. Specimen from Wheal Towan, Cornwall

Bryum capillare, bryum moss
When more vigorous plants have died back, bryum mosses (Bryum capillare) are revealed in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photograph taken by Derek Adams, April 2003

Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave 190) cranium
Modern human skull showing cut marks excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, late upper palaeolithic (Creswellian)

Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave) ulna
Broken human ulna excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, late upper palaeolithic (Creswellian)

Homo sapiens (Goughs Cave 6) mandible
Adult mandible excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dates back to around 14, 000 to12, 000 years ago (Creswellian)

Volunteer working at the Natural History Museum, London
Volunteer using microscope to examine zoological specimen

The Piltdown man excavation site
Excavation at Piltdown c. 1913 with Cyril Woodward showing scale

Magyarosaurus & Cetiosaurus oxoniensis
Magyarosaurus was a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (about 70 mya) of Transylvania. Cetiosaurus an early sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England (170 - 160 mya)

32 Soho Square
Engraving from the Banks Archive at the Natural History Museum, London. 32 Soho Square was the residence and Herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks, an English naturalist and botanist

Betula verrucosa, silver birch
Illustration depicting silver birch foliage from the Plate Collection of the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Silurian seafloor
An artists impression of the seafloor of the shelf sea surrounding Britain during the Silurian (443 to 417 million years ago), with trilobites, brachiopods, rugose corals, and molluscs

Fannia scalaris, fake fossil fly in amber

Interglacial Landscape
Artists impression of England during a Pleistocene (1.8 million to 11, 000 years before present) interglacial period. Rhinoceros feed on the sparse vegetation in the distance

Susannite on Caledonite
4mm crystal of susannite (carbonate) in a mass of caledonite (suplhate). Specimen from the Roughton Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria

Carboniferous coal forest
Artists impression of the swamp forests of ferns and other non-flowering plants which covered much of Britain towards the end of the Carboniferous period (354 to 290 million years ago)

Bothriospondylus madagascariensis
A fossil specimen of a femur fragment, or thigh bone that once belonged to the dinosaur, Bothriospondylus madagascariensis. It was discovered in Madagacar and dates back to the Middle Jurassic

The Piltdown (Skull) Gravel Pit
The site where the Pitdown specimens were claimed to have been discovered (1912-1915). Photograph believed to have been taken during the winter of 1913

Baryonyx fossil remains
Plan of the crazy paving of blocks containing Baryonyx bones at the brick pit excavation site at Ockley, Surrey, UK. This was excavated in 1983 where a Baryonyx specimen was discovered

Wold meteorite landing site
Pen and ink sketch showing an obelisk marking the landing site of the Wold Meteorite, Yorkshire, 1812. Image from the Sowerby Collection by Gerrit van Spaendonck

Barkham Avenue, Piltdown, Sussex
View looking down the drive c. 1912, including from left to right, Venus Hargreaves, Arthur Smith Woodward (with the goose Chipper), Charles Dawson, and Robert Kenward Snr

Holcus landatus, Yorkshire fog
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Drawing of the Cromwell Road facade of the Natural History M
The Waterhouse building was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened to the public in 1881

Bonnet
Collected during the archaelogical excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986

Down House
Once the home of Charles Darwin and now the Darwin Museum, Orpington, Kent

Display cases in the Central Hall at the Natural History Mus
This grand vista of the Central Hall sweeps from the bronze statue of Sir Richard Owen by Thomas Brock to the marble statue of Charles Darwin on the staircase. Photograph taken in April 1906

Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus: Head only
From the Lower Jurassic, Lyme Regis, Dorset. This specimen is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found and one of Mary Annings greatest discoveries

Searching for the Piltdown Man

Palaeontology laboratory
Preparing a mounted skeleton of Baryonyx, a carnivorous dinosaur from Sussex, England. Laying out casts made of glass reinforced plastic prior to mounting on exhibition panelling

Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus: Head and neck
From the Lower Jurassic, Lyme Regis, Dorset. This specimen is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found and one of Mary Annings greatest discoveries

Giant deer, February 1893. The Natural History Museum, Lond
Photographed 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

Cetiosauriscus stewarti fossil teeth
Fossil teeth belonging to the Cetiosauriscus, a Sauropod dinosaur, discovered in Peterborough, England. It dates back 158 million years

Crypt of Christ Church, Spitalfields
Picture taken during the archaelogical excavation at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1984-1986

Drawing of the Cromwell Road facade of the Natural History
The Waterhouse building was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened to the public in 1881

Pelorosaurus teeth
These robust chopping teeth from Pelorosaurus, a sauropod, show where the outer enamel has been worn away by constant chopping at plants. This dinosaur lived 130 to 112 million years ago

Robert Plot (1640-1696)
Portrait of Robert Plot, a British naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum

Down House gardens
Once the home of Charles Darwin and now the Darwin Museum, Orpington, Kent

Limacina mercinensis, holoplanktonic mollusc
Fossilised specimens of Holoplaktonic molluscs found in early Eocene, London Clay at Highgate, London. 58 million years old

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