Mammalia Collection (page 13)

Phocoena phocoena, common porpoise
Plate 19 Cape Porpoise. Hand-coloured engraving of a drawing by James Hope Stewart (1789-1856), from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 12 Whales, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine

Prosobonia leucoptera, Tahiti sandpiper

Meles obseurus, badger
Plate 62 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Archaic Homo sapiens cranium (Laetoli 18)
A front view of a cranium belonging to Archaic Homo sapiens dating back to 150, 000 years ago. This specimen known as Laetoli 18 was discovered within the Ngaloba bed at Laetoli in Tanazania

British Mammals Title Page
Title page of Vol. 1 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2, written and illustrated with 50 colour plates and pen and ink sketches by Archibald Thorburn F.Z.S

Moschus moschiferus, Siberian musk deer
Plate 19 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Mus flavipectus and Mus griseipectus
Plate 42 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Adriosaurus suessi
Neocomian fossil lizard from the Isle of Lesina, Dalmatia

Eristalis tenax, drone-fly larvae
Eristalis tenax is one of quite a large group of closely related hover-flies which have rat-tailed maggots, i.e. larvae with an elongated breathing tube at the end of their bodies. E

Elaphodus cephalophus, tufted deer
Plate 65 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Tupaia glis, common tree shrew
Teeth in the upper mandible of a male comon tree shrew, showing the fundamental mammalian triangle of sharp, pointed cusps. Scale is in millimetres

Talpa sp. mole
LS Plate 81 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856

Rhizomys vestitus, bamboo rat
Plate 46 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Uropsilus soricipes, shrew mole; Mus chevrieri
& Mus ouang-thomae. Plate 40 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Lagomys tibetanus
Plate 48 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

A puma-leopard hybrid
A hybrid of a puma and a leopard, (about 1 metre in length) on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring. Close-up of head

Whale heart
A freeze dried specimen of a Whales heart, thought to be from an immature Sperm Whale. Held in the Natural History Museums Department of Zoology. Approximately 1 metre in length

Equus caballus gomelini, tarpan
The Tarpan a wild horse, native of Russia, primaeval bay stock. Plate on page opposite page 160. Original watercolour drawing from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol

Casts of Australopithecus boisei jaw bones
Casts of Upper jaw (left) of Australopithecus (Paranthropus) boisei from the Olduvai Gorge; lower jaw (right) of Australopithecus (Paranthropus) boisei from Peninj

Pithecia pithecia, white-faced saki
Fox-tailed Monkey, Simia pithecia. Plate facing p. 169 of Museum Leverianum; specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever, by George Shaw. Published by James Parkinson, proprietor, 1792-1796

Bovidae (family), bovid
Plate 74 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Nycticebus coucang, slow loris
LS Plate 75 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856. See also Image reference 24829

Meles leptorynchus, Eurasian badger
Plate 25 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Hyracotherium skeleton
Modelled from various sources. Hyracotherium is the earliest known horse from the late Palaeocene and early Eocene of North America and Europe. Frame is 820mm wide

Blade of grass from a cow
Scanning electron microscope image of a blade of grass from a cows stomach (x 175 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Plate 77 of the Reeves Collection (Zoology)
LS Plate 77 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856

Pithecia sp. saki and Pithecia leucocephala, white-headed s
Pithecia pogonias & head of Pithecia leucocephala. Hand coloured lithograph from a drawing by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889)

Putorius davidianus & P. moupinensis
Plate 59 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Equus caballus, horse
Skull belonging to a horse (Equus caballus) from the Zoology collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Sciurus davidianus, Chinese rock squirrel
Plate 16 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Orcaella brevirostris, Irrawaddy dolphin
Photograph of the dorsal view of the skull of an Irrawaddy dolphin

Arctomys robustus, marmot

Mus musculus, house mouse and Mus muralis, St. Kilda house m
Common Mouse and St. Kilda House Mouse. Plate 28 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Arsinotherium skeleton
Mounted skeleton of an Oligocene, 35 million year old rhinoceras-like ungulate from Egypt. Complete mounted skeleton

Sousa teuszii, Atlantic Hump-backed Dolphin skull

Fossor capensis
Ff.10. Painting by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

The Anthropomorpha of Linnaeus
An illustration by Bontius (1658) of early impressions of the Orangutan. The picture was published in Thomas Huxleys Evidence as to Mans Place in Nature (1883)

Arvicola melanogaster, water vole
Plate 44 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Stone age horse
A plastic replica of amber stone age horse carving. Image from Amber the Natural Time Capsule fig. 23

Perameles nasuta, long-nosed bandicoot

Le Sajou Brun, Male
Plate 30 (170) Le Sajou Brun, Male. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 1, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier

Wallabia bicolor, swamp wallaby

Equus sp. zebra
Plate 222 from Capter 12 of Gleanings of Natural History by George Edwards (1694-1773), published 1758-1764

A native spearing a kangaroo
Drawing 74 from the Watling Collection titled A Native spearing a Kangaroo by a Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Camelus bactrianus, bactrian camel
Plate 216 (326) Le Chameau. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 2, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier

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