Plate Collection (#76)

Lepidotes mantelli Agassiz, lepidotes tooth plate

Henry Dorvill
Pencil sketch of Henry Dorvill as a young man. Held in the Botany Library Plate Collection, at the Natural History Museum, London

Undulated parakeet
Plate by Frederick Polydore Nodder from George Shaws The Naturalist Miscellany, Vol. 16, (1751-1813)

Amomum zingiber Linn. ginger
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Agaricus adustus. Plate LXXIII taken from Illustrations of British Mycology by Hussey, Anna Maria

Polyporus dryadeus. Plate XXI taken from Illustrations of British Mycology by Hussey, Anna Maria

Poeciliidae sp. Guppy
Illustration of Guppy fish by Guppy, Plantagenet Lechmere 1903

Plate from Charles Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the Bea
Fish from South American and Tahitian waters including Agonopsis chiloens, found by Charles Darwin in the Chiloe archipelago, off the west coast of South America

Snake and rodent by Albertus Seba
Tab 29 depicting a snake and a rodent from Thesaurus, by Albertus Seba

Cebus capucinus, white-faced capuchin
Plate 2 from Museum S.R.M. Adolphi Friderici, by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), c. 1754-1764

Tabula
Illustration from Handlung 1 Tabula, by Kirschner, 1786

Salamander illustration

Illustrated pages
From Sloanes Natural History of Jamaica published in 1725. Volume 2

Virgatosphinctes, ammonite
Shown here is an Ammonite fossil recovered from over 5000m above sea-level in the Himalaya region

Plate from New Book of Flowers (1680)
Illustration from Neues Blumenbuch or New Book of Flowers (1680) by Maria Sibylla Merian

Sohngeite

Snake by Albertus Seba
Tab 54, depicting a snake from Thesaurus, by Albertus Seba

Trionyx sewaare, turtle
Number 36, an illustration of a turtle in Reptiles of India, China, Vol I bequeathed by Maj. Gen. Hardwicke

Sciurus macrourus, long-tailed squirrel
Sydney Parkinson, Ceylon drawings ( Banks Manuscript No. 20) 1767

Ankylosaur skin nodule
This nodule would have been attached to the dinosaurs back by its flat base with the broad ridge providing protection. The Ankylosaurs were a family of dinosaurs characterised by thick bony plated

Grottes des Enfants burial
Skeletons of two boys with clusters of perforated shells and probably traces of decorated clothing. Pl. XIII from Palԥ oethnologie: Antiquites de L Home dans les Alpes Maritimes

Dillenia alata, red beech tree
Copper plate from the original drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Catching A Tartar
Plate 17 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

Descloizite is comprised of (lead zinc vanadate hydroxide) and is characterized by platy crystals with a rounded triangualr shape. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Papilio, white butterfly
Illustration of a white butterfly by John Abbot, Tab, 275, Volume 16 from the Abbot Collection held in the Natural History Museums Entomology Library

Contarenia, Limia, Mendocia, Mella, Vismia
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816

Paliauana, Orobanchia, Urcheola
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816

Vellosia, Dauilla, Lemia, Marialua
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816. Page one of sixteen pages

Saxifraga hirculus, Marsh saxifrage
Originally published in: Exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarum Plantarum centuria prima by Breyne, Jakob (1637-1697) Published in Gedani (Danzig) 1678. Natural History Museums Botany Library

Mahomedan Beggar
An illustration inscribed Mahomedan Beggar. Plate 67 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928)

Oceanic and continental crust
A cross section of the Earths surface showing the continental crust on the left and oceanic crust on the right. Beneath the surface layer lies the Basaltic layer (in green) and the Mantle (in grey)

Fruit Illustration
Plate IX from Pomona Franconica Vol 1 (1776) by Johann Mayer. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled L Imperiale panache and La Dame

Annuals and biannual plants

Calotis lappulacea, bur daisy
Plate 60 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Olea fragrans, sweet olive
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Cannabis sativa, marijuana
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Serpentes (suborder), snake
Watercolour 39 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Toad illustration
Top left figure of plate 26 from Ranarum (1758) by Roesel von Rosenhof

Sciurus vulgaris, red squirrel
Red squirrel skins. Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Sorex araneus, Eurasian shrew

Salamanders
Plate 8 from 298 water-colour drawings of insects and larvae (1622) by C. Flegel

Pycnodus zeaformis Longbottom, fish tooth plate
Corn-on-the-cob fish tooth plate from a paratype specimen dating from the Lower or Middle Eocene phosphates; Tamagu?lelt, Gao region, Mali

Barbacenia, Quelusia, Lafoensia
Autograph letter to Sir J. Banks, consisting of descriptions, with water colour drawings of genera of Plants collected in Minas Geraes, Brazil Vandelli, Domenico, 1732-1816

Directions for Nature Printing First Leaf. From the Botany Plate Collection

Rubus corylifolia, blackberry
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Cassia Lanceolatat
Plate from Hipolyte Nectouxs Voyage dans la haute Egypte, au dessus des cataractes, avec des observations sur les diverses espcces de sene qui sont repandues dans le commerce. Paris, Garnery 1808

Casuarina equisetifolia, beach sheoak
Copper plate of Casuarina equisetifolia, beach sheoak from the original drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Aleurites moluccana, candlenut tree
Copper plate of Aleurites moluccana, candlenut tree from the original drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

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