Nineteenth Century Collection (page 54)

The slip and boathouses on the Marina, Bermuda 1873

Papio hamadryas, hamadryas baboon
Hamadryas baboons, one adult male, one juvenile and one adult female. Plate 11 from Symbolae Physicae section: Zoologica I. Mammalia by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876)

Dr. William Lauder Lindsay (1829-1880)
Portrait of Dr. William Lauder Lindsay, a Scottish botanist

Glacial rock and Block House, Halifax 1873
The Point Glacier Rock Halifax, showing action of glacial sea on surface of rock, Halifax

The amalgamating room at a gold digging site, Halifax 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Matilda Smith (1854-1926)
Cousin of Joseph Hooker, the creator of the Botanical magazine and son of William Hooker (establisher of worldwide communications and correspondence system for collectors)

David Moore (1807�)
Portrait of David Moore, a Scottish born botanist and curator of the botanical gardens at Glasnevin, Ireland in 1838

Asa Gray (1810-1888)
Portrait of Asa Gray, an American botanist and an early advocate of Darwinism. Also professor of natural history at Harvard University and author of Flora of North America (1838-1843)

Peculiar stratifications just outside the dockyards, Bermuda
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Orange Grove, St. Michael, Azores 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

General view of Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Garrison boat. Bermuda

Private garden, St. Michael, Azores 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Main Entrance of the Natural History Museum, London

Volcano, Japan, c. 1870
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Letter written by Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913)
Letter from the nineteenth century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace to Frederick Bates, sent from Singapore in 1856

The Dockyard Gardens, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen Island, c. 1870
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Portrait of Sir Charles Lyell, a Scottish born lawyer turned geologist, and author of The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man (1863). Knighted in 1848

H. M.s Sirius, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Store houses within the dockyards, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Sculpture of Richard Owen, which is situated at the back of the Central Hall in the Natural History Museum, London

The Governors Croquet Ground, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Sir Edwin Lankester (1814-1874)
Portrait of Sir Edwin Lankester, a British born scientist and coroner

Rock formation, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Streptopelia senegalensis, laughing dove
Plate 22, watercolour by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn from her Neilgherry birds and Miscellaneous, (1858)

Turdus iliacus, redwing
Plate 172 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

One of Nobengulus sisters at his village, January 1870
Sketch 78 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)

Coracias temminckii, purple-winged roller
Plate 56 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Ptilinopus magnificus, woompoo fruit dove
Plate 58, hand coloured lihtograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol. 5 (1840-1848)

Podargus ocellatus, marbled frogmouth
Plate 4, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Supplementary volume, (1840-1848)

Henry Doubleday (1808-1875)
Painting of Henry Doubleday, an ornithologist and entomologist. Oil on board, artist unknown, c. 1857. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London

Psarisomus dalhousiae, long-tailed broadbill
Plate 64 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Sir Nathaniel Dance (20 June 1748 �March 1827)
Sir Nathaniel Dance, an officer of the Honourable East India Company

Costume of the Glaciers (sketch of William Buckland)

Tritonia aurea
Illustration of Tritonia aurea, from volume 15 (1849) of Paxtons Magazine of Botany, held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Letter written by Wallace, A. R, describing shipwreck and los
Letter written by Wallace, A.R, describing shipwreck and los

Letter from Patrick Matthew in The Gardeners Chronicle 12 M
Letter from Patrick Matthew in The Gardeners Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, Saturday 12 May 1860, issue number 19 on page 433

Page 54 from the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Volume 3, 1858

On Naval Timber and Arboriculture by Patrick Matthew - title
Title page from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture; with critical notes on authors who have recently treated the subject of planting by Patrick Matthew

Toxodon platensis
Pleistocene specimen collected by Charles Darwin near Montevideo, Uraguay during the Voyage of the Beagle 1832-1836. Skull length is 66 cms

The Darwin and Wallace joint paper, dated 1858
Offprint copy of the joint paper by Darwin and Wallace presented to the Linnean Society On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties

Page 53 from the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Volume 3, 1858

Notes on birds in Macassar
Manuscript notes on the hornbill bird (Buceros cassidix), undated, circa 1856

Mouth of the river Santa Cruz, map
Map (p.338 - 339), from Charles Darwins Narrative of the voyages of HM Ships Adventure and Beagle part 2, 1839

Cissa sp
Plate RZD010, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

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