Lyme Collection (page 4)

Poems by Mary Anning (1799-1871)
Encomium Murchisonaum, a poem written c. 1840 s. Page 3 of 3. The Complaint of a sunbeam against Dr Faraday, written in honour of the English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

Excavating at Charmouth
A team of palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum excavating an Ichthyosaur at Charmouth beach. December 2004

Pentacrinites fossilis, crinoid
Crinoids are ancient, marine organisms. Pentacrinites fossilis was unusual in that it lived suspended from floating driftwood (seen here attached to a log)

Ichthyosaurus communis (Conybear)
A fossil specimen of an Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Lias, Lyme Regis, Dorset. On display at The Natural History Museum, London

Ammonite selection
Three ammonites as follows: (Left to right) Oistoceras wrighti; Asteroceras obtusum (zonal index species); Tragophylloceras loscombi all specimens originate from the Jurassic rocks near Lyme Regis

Dapedium orbicularis, fossil fish
A well preseved example of an enamel-scaled fish from the Lower Lias, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England

GRANNIEs TEETH
Grannies Teeth old stone steps on The Cobb, a defence against coastal erosion, dating back to the 13th century and re-fortified many times. Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Date: 1950s

Sir Joseph Lister
JOSEPH, first baron LISTER of Lyme Regis, surgeon and medical scientist, regarded as the founder of antiseptic surgery

Lyme Regis / Beach 1950S
Families have a day out at the seaside

England / Lyme Regis 1814
A fisherman hauling in his net on a blustery day on the beach at Lyme Regis, Dorset

England / Lyme Regis 1796
The bay of Lyme Regis, Dorset

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