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Five bivalve fossils(Top) Chlamys fibrosa; (Centre left) Chlamys splendens; (Centre right) Perampliata ampliata; (Lower left) Mytilus ungulatus; (Lower right) Trigonia reticulata
Entomology, W. Rothschild Zoological MuseumThe Museum was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum following Rothschilds death in 1937, along with its unique collections of preserved animals
Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1932Packed for shipping. The majority of Rothschilds (280, 000 items) bird skin collection was sold the AMNH in New York after he ran into financial difficulties
Alfred Newton (1829-1907), Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University in the late 19th Century. Newton was an expert ornithologist and tutored Walter Rothschild in anatomy
Tridacna maxima Rg, 1798, giant clamPlate 76 from a bound volume of illustrations used for Lamarcks Genera of shells. Watercolour and graphite on paper, c. 1820 by Anna Children (became Atkins) (1799-1871) Date: 1820
Nautilus spAlice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862-1951). Watercolour on paper. Alice Woodward was taught science and illustration by her father Henry Woodward
Hans Sloanes nautilus shellSir Hans Sloane is perhaps the most important collector ever. His huge collection forms the core of both the British Museum and the Natural History Museum
Various Mollusca and Crustacea speciesWatercolour from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection, c.1820 Date: circa 1820
Eledone cirrhosa, Curled OctopusIllustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection, marked Sepia octopodia
Conus and Epitonium shellsWatercolour by Johann Gustav Hoch, c. 1771. Clockwise from top left: Conus ammiralis, Admiral cone; Conus episcopus, Episcopal or bishop cone; Conus imperialis, Imperial cone; Conus virgo
Buccinum harpaWatercolour by J. Hayes from Mollusca and Radiata of India, The Thomas Hardwicke Collection, c.1820 Date: circa 1820
Verania sicula, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Tremoctopus velifer, octopusA glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Sepioteuthis sicula. jpgA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Sepiola rondeletii, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Sepia officinalis, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Sepia elegans, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Rossia dispar, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Philonexia catenulatus, octopusA glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Onychoteuthis lichtensteinii, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Onychia platyptera, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Ommastrephes sagittatus, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Octopus vulgaris, octopusA glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Epidiceras speciosum (Munster), internal cast of bivalveSteinkern (internal cast) of a bizarrre rudist bivalve from the Jurassic period. Specimen from the Upper Kimmeridgian rocks, Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany
Rasenia uralensi, ammoniteA fossil ammonite from the Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridge clay, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. An ammonite has a coiled, chambered shell and is an extinct mollusc
Histioteuthis bonelliana, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Loligo vulgaris, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Enoploteuthis veranii, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Enoploteuthis owenii, squidA glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Argonauta argo (males), octopusA glass model of two octopuses, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Extinct gastropods and mollusks: Ammonites, Scaphites, Hamites and Turrilites species.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A
Fossils of extinct mollusks.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidts Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr
Sargassum nudibranch, Scyllaea pelagica.. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw
Peronian aplysia, Aplysia peroniana.. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany
Episcopal miter or mitre shell, Mitra mitra, a large predatory marine gastropod mollusk.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw
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)