Reptile Collection (page 7)

Two frogs with flute and ladder on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Frog playing flute on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Four frog acrobats on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Frogs playing leapfrog on a Christmas and New Year card
Six frogs playing leapfrog on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Frog playing trombone on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Frog gentleman on a New Year card
Frog dressed as a Victorian gentleman on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Frog, owl and mouse in moonlight on a Christmas card
A frog and an owl both catch hold of a mouse in the moonlight on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Frog and egg on a Christmas card
Frog and duck egg on a Christmas card -- Enjoyment. (3 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

Frog and egg on a New Year card
Frog and duck egg on a New Year card -- Jollification. (2 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

Frog with umbrella and smoking cap on a Christmas card
Frog with blue umbrella and red smoking cap going for a constitutional (ie a walk) on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Frog and duckling on a Christmas card
Frog and newly hatched duckling on a Christmas card -- Consternation. (4 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

Four frogs snowballing on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Three frogs playing banjos on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Four frogs diving on a Christmas card
Four frogs diving into a river on a Christmas card, leaving their top hats behind. Date: circa 1890s

Four frogs on bicycles on a Christmas card
Four frogs riding bicycles on a Christmas card, one of them holding a pink parasol. Date: circa 1890s

Four frogs playing guitars on a Christmas card. circa 1890s

Five frogs in top hats on a Christmas card, with comic verse below. Date: circa 1890s

White lilies and frog on a hexagonal Christmas card
White lilies and a frog on a hexagonal Christmas card with a gold border. Date: circa 1890s

Frog with parasol and pink ribbon on a Christmas card
Frog with a parasol, and a large pink ribbon tied in a bow round its waist, on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Frog footman on a New Year card, delivering a greeting. Date: circa 1890s

Frogs snowballing on a New Year card, with holly round their waists -- ouch! Date: circa 1890s

Floryane, snake dancer, with a pretend snake draped round her neck. Date: 1929

Posada, Ballad of the snake, Mexico
Ballad of the snake, Mexico. Date: circa 1900s

Posada, Making the Rounds
Making the Rounds -- two men dancing with a lizard in human clothing. Date: circa 1890s

Snake, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Telfairs skink Round Island skink adult searches for food on forest floor endemic to Mauritius subject to a Mauritian Wildlife Foundation regeneration programme June Ile aux Aigrettes island nature

Mauritius ornate day gecko adult watches for prey from a tree trunk endemic to Mauritius Bras d Eau National Park subject to a Mauritian Wildlife Foundation regeneration programme June North of

Humanised frog couple on a New Year card
Humanised frog couple at the circus on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Giant tortoises at Tring Park
In 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises

C. Harris feeding Galapagos tortoises, 1898
Sailor and explorer Charles Harris was despatched to the Galapagos islands to collect giant tortoises for Walter Rothschild in 1897

Transporting Giant tortoises
In 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises

Original art, Crystal Palace extinct animals
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Pen & ink sketch of pterodactyl
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Iguanodon tooth
Original Iguanodon tooth found by Dr. and Mrs. Mantell. Iguanodon was a large plant eater with cheek teeth for grinding vegetation and hoof-like claws

Crocodylus palnotis, Muggers
Watercolour by Olivia Tonge; c. 1912 Date: circa 1912

Naja naja
Hand-coloured engraving from the Patrick Russell Collection

Hydrophis cyanocinctus, Annulated sea snake
Hand-coloured engraving from An account of Indian Serpents collected on the coast of Coromandel. The Patrick Russell Collection 1796 Date: 1796

Chamaeleo zeylanicus, Indian chameleon
Illustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection; attributed to artist J. Hayes; 1819

Hypsilophodon skull
Hypsilophodons narrow mouth would have been suitable for picking out soft shoots and leaves. Narrow mouths allow animals to select food with more care. This specimen lived 125 million years ago

Plesiosaurus macrocephalus
Plate 15 from Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World, by Sir Richard Owen, (1854). This marine reptile could be found during the Jurassic period between 200 and 145 million years ago. Date: 1854

Daspletosaurus teeth
Fossil teeth from the Daspletosaurus, a large carnivorous dinosaur closely related to, but not as big as, the Tyrannosaurus

Hypsilophodon foot
Hypsilophodons upper foot bones were long and the lower foot thin and flexible, very like todays running birds. This specimen which was discovered in England dates back 125 million years to

Iguanodon femur
A fossil femur, or thigh bone that once belong to the bipedal herbivorous dinosaur, Iguanodon. This specimen shows marks where muscles were once attached to the bone

Magyarosaurus sp. & Cetiosaurus oxoniensis
Magyarosaurus was a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Transylvania, Romania. Cetiosaurus was an early sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England

Underwater bell, Marine Studios, Marineland, Florida, USA
A dolphin and a turtle near an underwater bell at Marine Studios, Marineland, Florida, USA. The ringing of the bell is a signal that it is feeding time. Date: circa 1938

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Alligator. Date: 1933

Illustration, The Four Clever Brothers -- They found the Princess on the rock; the Dragon asleep with his head on her lap. Date: 1909

Lined gecko, Gekko vittatus.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

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