Mayfly Collection

Ephemera danica, mayfly larva
The larval stage of a mayfly lasts about a year, and is spent entirely underwater. When it hatches as an adult in the spring, usually May, it is only very short-lived

HMA No1 Mayfly leaving floating shed at the Cavendish Dock
HMA No1 Mayfly leaving its floating shed at the Cavendish Dock, Barrow-in-Furness

Bill of fare from Crystal Palace, 31 / 12 / 1853
Menu for the dinner in the Iguanodon and original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

HMA No1 Mayfly after structural failure in Cavendish Dock, Barrow-in-Furness, 24 September 1911. Date: 1911

HMA No1 Mayfly at its mast in Cavendish Dock, Barrow-in-Furness

HMA No1 Mayfly in Cavendish Dock, Barrow-in-Furness

The rear gondola of HMA No1 Mayfly at the Cavendish Dock, Barrow-in-Furness

Invitation to Dinner in Iguanodon 31 / 12 / 1853
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

First British rigid airship - The Mayfly
Photograph of the first British rigid airship - The Mayfly. On Cavendish Dock, Barrow in Furness - 1911. Photograph

Exhibition of a giraffe to the public
A printed poster advertising the last week of the magnificent living Giraffe or camelopardalis with its Nubian attendant

Wombwells Royal National Menagerie
A printed poster advertising Wombwells Royal National Menagerie dated c.1800

Wombwells Royal National Zoological Establishment

Wombwells Royal Menagerie, 1853
A printed poster advertising Wombwells Royal Mengarie visiting Leeds in 1853

Mayfly in Baltic amber
A well-preserved Mayfly, Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae in Baltic amber. Specimen originates from the Upper Eocene

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