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Variety of molluscs including terebratula, pearly fresh water mussel, and jingle shells.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle
Ammonites: fossilized cephalopods
Mollusk Shell VariationsA scientific illustration of British land shells, illustrating some of the variations exhibited by a single species of mollusk. Original water colour drawings by John, W. Taylor
Mollusc, Arca (Barbatia) novaezelandiaeSpecimen collected by Robert Falcon Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition
Six molluscs including four gastropods and two bivalvesWatercolour 396 by the Port Jackson Painter, from the Watling Collection
Shipworm boringsThis block of wood was attacked by Teredo navalis, common shipworm about 50 million years ago
Belemnotheutis antiquusA well-preserved Upper Jurassic squid aged 160 million years. This specimen originates from the famous clay deposits in Wiltshire
Turritella agate
Mollusc, Trophon longstaffi
Mollusca drawingsPlate 1 of Volume II of the British Anarctic (Terra Nova) Natural History reports
Opalised snails and clamFound in the South Australia town of Coober Pedy, these ancient snail and clam shells have been preserved in semi-precious opal
Cuttlefish dissection drawingTable LI, taken from Bibel der Natur byJan Swammerdamm
Glove knitted from the beard threads of the pen shell (PinMade in the 1700s from the beard threads of the pen shell (Pinna nobilis), a large Mediterranean mollusc
Crepidula, slipper limpetsSlipper limpets collected by Charles Darwin in Chile on the Beagle voyage (1831-1836)
The Tank Room, Darwin CentreThe Tank Room in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London
Neritina waigiensis, snailA collection of colourful snail shells all from the same species
Aturia sp. nautilusWatercolour by Alice B. Woodward, c. 1880. Drawings 1 and 2 have had their shells removed, drawing 3 is a cross section of the shell and drawing 4 is an apical (open end) view
Shell Gallery, May 1911New attractions for visitors in 1907, four years before this image was taken, included life-size models of an octopus and a giant squid in the Shell Gallery (now the Jerwood Galllery)
A Wealden mollusc, 1924One of the preparators in the Geology Department, Frank Oswell Barlow, seen here with his reconstruction of a giant Wealden mollusc
ShellSpecimen shell held at the Natural History Museum, London
MolluscPlate 2 by J Drouet from his Etudes sur les naiades de la France, Vol. 2, 1857
Seven molluscs, including two bivalves and five gastropodsWatercolour 390 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Wee-ang-i, Ger-my, Won-ni, Goo-rung, from the Watling Collection
Strombus luhuanus, red-mouthed strombWatercolour 392 by Thomas Watling, entitled Gung-e-ra-nere, from the Watling Collection
Plate 37 from Sebas ThesauriIllustration from A Sebas Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descripttio, Vol 3, 1758. This plate shows the way Seba displayed the specimens in the drawers of his shell cabinet
Detail of terracotta moulding of an octopus in the Waterhous
Bactrites carinatus, nautiloidThis straight nautiloid Bactrites carinatus originates from the Devonian of Germany
Nautilus pompilius, nautilusSpecimen shell of the nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), which has been sectioned to show body chamber (largest section), septa (individual chambers) and siphuncle (tube canal)
Scientists in Sri LankaScientist searching for apple snails in a drain at Kabugannawa, Sri Lanka. Scientists on a trip that was part of a programme funded by the Darwin Initiative
Brasilia bradfordensis, ammoniteThis Middle Jurassic ammonite has been sectioned to show its chambers with calcite crystals formed in some and hardened mud in others. The body chamber is missing
Parkinsonia dorsetensis, ammoniteThis ammonite has an evolute shell and is displaying complex suture lines. Specimen originates from the Middle Jurassic
Aegocrioceras quadratus, ammoniteThis Lower Cretaceous crytocone ammonite displays whorls which do not touch each other but form an open spiral
Sir Hans Sloanes collection of shellsPlate 5 from Arhtur MacGregors Hans Sloane, 1994. Shell specimens showing Sir Hans Sloanes catalogue numbers
Fossil shells of the Eocene Tertiary PeriodPlate III from Principles of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earths surface. Vol. 3 1832-33 by Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Cleodora sp. holoplanktonic molluscFossilised specimen of holoplantktonic molluscs originating from Pliocene rocks, near Turin, Italy
Silurian seafloorAn artists impression of the seafloor of the shelf sea surrounding Britain during the Silurian (443 to 417 million years ago), with trilobites, brachiopods, rugose corals, and molluscs
Anthus petrosus, rock pipitPlate 10 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Guildfordia yoka from Japan. Number 2387
Plate 79 from the John Reeves CollectionJohn Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings
Plate 101 from the John Reeves Collection (Zoology)Plate 101 from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China 1774-1856
Collection of shellsPlate 83 from Albertus Sebas Thesaurus, Vol 3, (1758)
Plate 76 from the John Reeves CollectionJohn Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings
LS Plate 83 from the John Reeves CollectionJohn Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings
Plate 85 from the John Reeves CollectionJohn Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings
Limacina mercinensis, holoplanktonic molluscFossilised specimens of Holoplaktonic molluscs found in early Eocene, London Clay at Highgate, London. 58 million years old
Francis Jeffrey Bell (1855-1924)Portrait of Francis Jeffrey Bell, a zoologist. Joined the Museums Zoology Dept 1878 (2nd class assistant), 1st class assistant 1887, left some time between Apr 1917-Aug 1918. Bell worked on mollusca
Darwins OctopusA specimen held in the Natural History Museum, London, of an octopus collected by Charles Darwin
Snail in Burmese amberA snail in trapped and preserved in Burmese amber. Upper Cretaceous about 80 million years old. Image from Amber The Natural Time Capsule figure 59