Mammals Collection (page 41)

Oncifelis colocolo, pampas cat
Felis pajeros. Plate 9 from The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Vol 1, Part 2 Mammalia, 1838-1839, by Charles Darwin

Homo erectus femur (Trinil)
A cast of a Homo erectus femur originally discovered at the Trinil site on the Solo River, Java, Indonesia by Eugene Dubois between 1891 and 1892

Great paleotherium
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Macropus giganteus, eastern gray kangaroo
Marsupial, Kangaroo, or the Pattagorang. Detail from drawing 87, possibly by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c

Vulpes vulgaris, fox and cormorant designs
Drawing 28 Vol 2 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. (Two separate negatives)

Panthera onca, jaguar and Tapirus indicus, Asian tapir
Felis onca. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. Illustrated with 43 hand-coloured lithographs from watercolour drawings by Joseph Wolf

Potorous gilberti, Gilberts potoroo
Hypsiprymnus gilberti. Plate 69 from Mammals of Australia Volume 2, by John Gould, 1863

Goat design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Cibus apella, brown sajou
Drawing 37 Vol 2 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the panel over doorway in the South East gallery, first floor of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875

Chalinolobus tuberculatus, long-tailed wattled bat
Ff.1. Vespertilio tuberculatus, New Zealand Bat. Painting by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

Mus darwinii, Darwins mouse
Plate 23 Illustration by John Gould (1804-1881) from The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Vol. 1 Part 2 Mammalia, 1838-1839, by Charles Darwin

Lion
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Uncia uncia, snow leopard
Felis uncia. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. Illustrated with 43 hand-coloured lithographs from watercolour drawings by Joseph Wolf

Mammals, birds & leaves
Drawing 33 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation for the annulet of shaft in the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875

Lepus timideus, hare design
Pencil sketch for the terracotta decoration of the Natural History Museum, London by Alfred Waterhouse 1874-1879. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s

Blue Whale Hall, Mammals Gallery
View of Blue Whale Hall, Mammal Gallery, Gallery 24, Life Galleries at The Natural History Museum, London

Bradypus sp. three-toed sloth
A mounted skeleton of a three-toed sloth, an arboreal edentate from South and Central America, having long hook-like claws by which it hangs from tree branches

Cetacea (order), whale
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Professor Chris Stringer with four hominid skulls
Top left: Modern Human (Europe). Top right: Modern Human (Africa). Bottom left: Gibraltar Neanderthal, Forbes Quarry. Bottom right: Broken Hiil Skull, Zambia

Chaeropus ecaudatus, pig-footed bandicoots
Pencil and chalk drawing by John Gould (1804-1881) c. 1845

Sciurus vulgaris, red squirrel
Red squirrel skins. Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Homo heidelbergensis (Broken Hill) & Homo erectus pelvis (
Side view comparison of pelvis (ischium) of a male Homo heidelbergensis, (Broken Hill E719) and a cast of Homo erectus Pelvis (OH28) discovered at Olduvai Gorge

Neomys fodiens, Eurasian water shrew
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Meles meles, Eurasian badger
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Mammal Study, Natural History Museum, 1924
Published in Life Through A Lens, Photographs from the Natural History Museum 1880-1950 by Susan Snell & Polly Tucker, 2003

Panthera tigris balica, Balinese tiger
Tiger skin from Bali. Specimen held at The Natural History Museum, London

Babiana ringens, rats tail babiana
Illustration from Plantarum Horti Medici Amstelodamensis (1706) by Caspar Commelin. Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Phascolarctos cinereus, koala
Illustration from The Mammals of Australia (1863) by John Gould

Nyctalus leisleri, lesser noctule
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Australasia book cover
Front cover of Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, 1893

Piltdown cricket bat
Side view of sharpened piece of elephant thighbone, presented as a digging implement. Commonly referred to as the Piltdown cricket bat. Held at The Natural History Museum, London

Hair of the Dog
A scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a dog hair

Panthera tigris tigris, Bengal tiger
Tiger skin from Bengal. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Monodon monoceros, narwhal
The skull and a selecton of vertebrae specimens of the narwhal whale, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Pteronotus parnellii mesoamericanus, common mustached bat
A common mustached bat (Pteronotus parnellii mesoamericanus) photographed in Belize by Frank Greenaway

Scientist at work in the Darwin Centre
A stranded harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, is examined to establish its age, diet, the number of parasites it bears, and the likely cause of death

Pantholops hodgsonii, chiru
Plate 146 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Ricinus communis, castor bean
One of the 162 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the Central Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

Carrying model beluga on pole, c. 1934
It took over a year from the closure of the old Whale Hall on 1 January 1934 for the skeletons and models, such as this beluga, to be ready for the public in the new Whale Hall

Mustelus mustelus, smoothhound shark
A Scanning Electron Microscope image of smoothhound shark skin. The skin is covered with tiny teeth called dermal denticles

View of Middle Pleistocene site of Bilzingsleben, Germany
Showing the accumulation of mammal bones and artifacts. Lower Palaeolithic, 400, 000 years old. Photo by Chris Stringer

Working on whale carcass, 1930s
Since 1913, when the Crowns rights to whales and dolphins stranded or caught in English waters (Fishes Royal) were transferred to the Museum, staff have been monitoring cetacean strandings

Viverra sp. civet
This civet specimen was obtained in 1867, and held at The Natural History Museum, London

Panthera tigris sondaica, Javan tiger
Tiger skin from Java. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

BhԲsiah ursitaxis inauritus
Plate 86 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Sorex araneus, Eurasian shrew

Vulpes vulpes, red fox
The red fox is the largest of the Vulpes genus. It can be found all over Europe, North America, South America, Australia and in parts of Northern Asia

Megaceros giganteus, giant deer
Head of a female giant deer (Megaceros giganteus) skeleton from the Pleistocene epoch, on display in the Mammals and Whale Gallery at the Natural History Museum, London

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