Photograph Collection (page 24)

Caiman crocodilus, spectacled caiman
Close-up photograph of a spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Gallery 3, Tring
The Natural History Museum at Tring. Once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937), and part of the Natural History Museum, London since 1937

Physeter catodon, sperm whale
A 52 ft male sperm whale stranded at Atwick, Humberside in Dec 1993. Teeth removed for sectioning determined the animals age at 35 yrs. Whale stranding programme -nhm.ac.uk/zoology/stranding/

Oryx gazella, gemsbok
Specimen on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Polyboroides radiatus, Madagascan harrier-hawk

Dugong dugon, dugong
A dugong exhibit at the Natural History Museum, London

Ammodorcas clarkei, Clarks gazelle
Photograph showing detail of the tail from a male Clarks gazelle skin specimen

Podogymnura truei, Mindanao gymnure
Ventral view of a male Mindanao gymnure skin specimen, collected from Mount Apo, Mindanao, Philippines

Mandrillus sphinx, mandrill

Professor Sir Arthur Tansley (1871-1955)
Portrait of Sir Arthur Tansley, an English botanist

Foraminiferan remains from the White Cliffs of Dover, U.K. The cliffs are made up of unimaginable numbers of chalky shells of long dead marine animals

Procyon lotor, common raccoon
The right side of a common raccoon skull specimen, held at the Natural History Museum. Phototgraph published on page 250 of the Dorling Kindersley Nature Encyclopedia, 1998. See also 28779

Pitangus sulphuratus, great kiskadee
A male specimen of the great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) held at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Searles Valentine Wood, F. G. S. (1798-1880)
Portrait of Searles Valentine Wood, a geologist. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, F. R. S. (1817-1911)
Portrait of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, an English botanist and traveller. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Pygathrix nemaeus nemaeus, red-shanked douc langur
Portrait of a red-shanked douc langur, native to north and central Vietnam, east-central Cambodia and possibly in China. Photographed by Frank Greenaway

William Yarrell (1784-1856)
Portrait of William Yarrell, a zoologist. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Mounted tortoise specimen
Photograph of a mounted tortoise specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889)

Professor Thomas Bell (1792-1880)
Portrait of Professor Thomas Bell, an English zoologist, surgeon and writer. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers, c. 1854

Photograph of reef flat with lighthouse in the background. Plate XXXIII

Aerial photomosaic of the Low Isles. Plate VIII

Edinburgh volcano
Illustration of the Edinburgh Volcano erupting in the late Palaeozoic period (543 to 248 million years ago), superimposed onto a modern aerial photograph of the city

Mr William Walker
Holding a Baryonyx claw. Baryonyx was found in 1983 in a clay pit in Surrey, England, by the British amateur fossil hunter William Walker

Dr James Scott Bowerbank (1797-1877)
Portrait of Dr James Scott Bowerbank, an English naturalist and palaeontologist. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Excavations at Piltdown circa 1913
Charles Dawson (left) and Dr A Smith Woodward (right)

Professor Robert Edmond Grant, M. D. F. R.s (1793-1874)
Professor Robert Edmond Grant, one of the foremost biologists of the early 19th century at Edinburgh and subsequently a professor at London University

Pan paniscus, pygmy chimpanzee
Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Workers at Piltdown

Mounted specimen of Crocodylus sp. crocodile
Photograph of a mounted crocodile specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Gorilla gorilla, gorilla

Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. F. R. S. (1797-1875)
Sir Charles Lyell, a Scottish lawyer, geologist, and populariser of uniformitarianism. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Artiodactyla (order), artiodactyl
Photograph of various artiodactyls, or even-toed ungulate mammal skeletons, held in the Osteology storeroom at the Natural History Museum, London

Randolph Kirkpatrick (1863-1950)
Portrait of Randolph Kirkpatrick, a British naturalist. From a photograph of the Natural History Museum Zoology Department, October 1895

Vespula vulgaris L. common wasp
Photograph of a female worker common wasp (Vespula vulgaris)

Kogia breviceps, pygmy sperm whale
Photograph of the skull of a pygmy sperm whale

Cetacea (order), cetacean stomach contents
Stomach contents of a Cetacean (either a whale, dolphin or a porpoise) preserved in a spirit jar. Specimen stored at the Natural History Museum, London

Frank Greenaway, Science Photographer
Museum photographer Frank Greenaway lighting a gemstone so that the internal structure is captured in a photograph

Professor J. S. Weiner
Pretoria born scientist who became Reader in Physical Anthropology at Oxford. In 1953 he famously exposed the Piltdown Man as a fraud

Cypress in Mr Watsons garden, Madeira
The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) was funded by the British Government for scientific purposes and seems to have been the first expedition to carry an official photographer as well as an

Gibraltar Old Mole
The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) was funded by the British Government for scientific purposes and seems to have been the first expedition to carry an official photographer as well as an

Myotis daubentonii, Daubentons bat
A Daubentons bat roosting. Photograph published on page 17 of Bats by Phil Richardson, a Natural History Museum publication, 2002

Excavations at Piltdown c. 1913
Arthur Smith Woodward and the Abbe Henri Breuil at Piltdown

Arthur Keith (1866-1955)
Portrait of Arthur Keith, a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, in 1912. In 1935 he re-evaluated his 1914 interpretation of the Piltdown fossil

Sperm whale skeleton, March 1901
This sperm whale skeleton stood in the Central Hall between 1882 and 1901. The whale was found near Thurso, Scotland, in 1863

Zoology Unpacking Room, 1924, the Natural History Museum
Following a four-year delay due to boundary discussions with the proposed new Science Museum, an Unpacking Room for zoological specimens opened for business in early 1912

Panthera tigris corbetti, Indochinese tiger
Tiger skin from Laobao, Vietnam. Specimen held at The Natural History Museum, London

Lophopus cristallinus, freshwater bryozoan
A freshwater bryozoan collected from the west coast of Norfolk it is an example of one of 11 freshwater bryozoans found in the U.K

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