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Regulus regulus, goldcrest nest and eggsPlate 66 from James Boltons third edition of Harmonia Ruralis: or an essay towards a natural history of British Song Birds, Vol.2, (1845)
Ejecting an intruderPlate opposite page 297 from The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace, London 1874
Plate 4, fig 2 Puddingstone - from MineralienbuchAn illustration of a polished section of puddingstone. Puddingstone is a conglomerate sedimentary rock. Plate 4, fig 2 from Mineralienbuch by F. A. Schmidt, Stuttgart 1855
Varecia variegata, ruffed lemurLS Plate 74 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856
Phoenicurus phoenicurus, P. ochruros, Luscinia megarhynchosPlate 4 from Archibald Thorburns first edition of British Birds, Vol.1 (1915)
Crocus sativus, saffronPlate 25 from Le Regne Vegetal. Vol 10 Flore Medicale Atlas 3 (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Indigofera tinctora, indigoIllustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London
Saccharum officinarum, sugar caneAn iconographic image of a sugar cane plant, set enlarged within a landscape. Plate from the Botany Library Plate Collection held in the Natural History Museum, London
Cacatua moluccensis, salmon-crested cockatooPlate 2 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph
Perdix perdix, grey partridgePlate 13 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Psittacula cyanocephala, plum-headed parakeetPlate 6, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)
Phalacrocorax aristotelis, European shagPlate 53 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Aegithalos caudatus, long-tailed titPlate 28 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Friticum hordeiforme, wheatIllustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London
Pinus wallichiana, pine treePlate 848 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Glaucus atlanticus, blue sea slugFf. 23 Vol 3. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771
Physalia pelagica, Portugese-man-of-warIllustration by Rene Primevcre Lesson from Voyage of the Coquille (1826-1338)
Cocos nucifera L. coconut treeA drawing by Paul Hermann from the collection of five volumes of specimens and drawings from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 1672-1677. (Vol. 5 Page 137)
Astacus astacus Linnaeus, crayfishSuppl. Tb LVI from Insecten-Belustigung 1756-61, Volume 3 by August Johann R� von Rosenhof (1705-1759)
Pollard Weeping WillowPlate 31 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty Two Species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. The series was originally issued in 1771
A Mussoorie Specimen of the common Toad of all IndiaWatercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge 1858-1949. 180 x 260mm. From one of sixteen sketchbooks presented to the Museum in 1952
BoobyA pencil sketch from the Drawings Collection of Thomas Malie (1726-42)
Ananas comosus (pineapple) & Philaethria didoPineapple tree (Ananas comosus) with butterfly, caterpillar & crysalis (Philaethria dido). Plate 2 from Metamorphosis Insectorum (1705) by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717)
Examples of mimicry among butterfliesPlate from On the lepidoptera of the Amazon Valley. Transactions of the Linnean Society, by H.W. Bates, 1862
Handpainted plate by Maria Sibylla MerianIllustration from Neues Blumenbuch (New Book of Flowers) by Maria Sibylla Merian, published in 1680
Rhynchoglossum obliquumEngraving by Franz Bauer from a drawing by Ferdinand Bauer, published in Plantae javanicae raroriores (1838)
Spheniscus magellanicus, Magellanic penguinFf. 83. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Psephotus dissimilis, hooded parrotPlate 14 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)
Lanius ludovicianus, loggerhead shrikePlate 57 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Charadrius melodus, piping ploverPlate 220 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Chlamydera nuchalis, great bowerbirdPlate 30 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorynchid, or Bower Birds, Vol. 2 (1891-98)
Anas platyrhynchos, mallardPlate 221 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Paracyclotosaurus was a large prehistoric amphibian that lived during the Triassic period around 235 million years ago. It grew to over 2 metres in length. Illustation by Neave Parker
Sitta canadensis, red-breasted nuthatchPlate 105 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Plant IllustrationPlate 916 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Amorphophallus bulbifer, voodoo lilyPlate 1109 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Ficus glomerata, doomar or gularPlate 532 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Viola tricolor, heartseaseFolio 62 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Capsicum frutesceus, common chilliIllustration by by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London
Gentiana sp. purple gentianIllustration by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London
Butterfly studiesA plate from a field note book of Rose Monteiro depicting butterfly studies
Dacelo novaeguineae, laughing kookaburraDrawing No. 57, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection
Gallirallus philippensis, buff-banded railDrawing No. 45, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection
Raper drawing No. 11Views in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope. (a) the Sugar Loaf [and] the Lyons Rump & Sugar-Loaf on with the Table-Land 1790
A naturalist being mobbed by Pteroglossus beauharnaesii, curIllustration from Henry Walter Bates The Naturalist on the Amazons (1884)
KingfisherPlate 336, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated Crested kingfisher
Papaver somniferum, Opium poppyDrawing by Arthur Harry Church in 1904. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Plate from The Natural History of Carolina by Mark CatesbyIllustration from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol 1 by Mark Catesby (1683-1749)
