Reptilia Collection (page 4)

LS Plate 106 from the John Reeves Collection (Zoology)
LS Plate 106 from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China 1774-1856

From M. G. Perecca to G. A. Boulenger
A letter from M.G. Perecca to G.A. Boulenger featuring an illustration of a chameleon. 27 January 1906. DF 235/18/6/38

Eretmochelys imbricata, Hawksbill turtle
George Forster illustration of Hawksbill turtle. Plate 169

Plate 97 from the John Reeves Collection (Zoology)

Rhynchosaurus skull
This skull measuring 78mm belongs to an extinct genus of reptile called Rhynchosaurus. It lived during the Triassic period and fossils have been found in Africa, Europe and Brazil

Columber kargi

Excavating a Mosasaur skull
Title page picture from Histoire Naturelle de la Montagne de St Pierre de Maestricht by Faujas de Saint Fond, 1799. Mosasaur was a carnivorous marine reptile from the Cretaceous period

Geosaurus gracilis
The fossil skeleton of the Geosaurus gracilis, an extinct aquatic crocodylian which lived during the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous periods

Pliosaurus ferox tooth
A fossil tooth that once belonged to the extinct carnivorous marine reptile, Pliosaurus ferox that lived during the Jurasic period

Asps design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Passenger pigeon design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Namyda agassizii, soft shelled tortoise of Georgia
Drawing 46 (Ewan 24) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram

Dinosaur skeletons comparing hip pelvic structure
The pelvis consists of three bones on each side. Top, a Saurischian dinosaur. Middle, an early Ornithischian dinosaur. Bottom, a Later Ornithischian dinosaur

Calotes versicolor, agamid lizard
This agamid lizard is a common species in the lowlands of Sri Lanka, particularly in the drier parts of the island

Detail of terracotta moulding of a snake in the Waterhouse B
The Waterhouse Buiding at the Natural History Museum, London was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Side view of a Gharial skull
The Gharial is a modern fish-eating crocodile that is found in India. Photographed by Harry Taylor

Side view of a Baryonyx snout
Baryonyx was a carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the Lower Cretaceous period around 125 million years ago. Photographed by Phil Crabb

Pre-historic creature by Benjamin Hawkins
Watercolour by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Alligator mississippiensis, alligator
Hand coloured lithograph from final volume of Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle complcte des Reptiles (1854) by A.M.C. Dumeril, G. Bibron, and A. Dumeril

Boulengerula taitanus, taita caecilian tooth
Tooth of the young specialized for peeling mothers skin

Hyperodapedon
Fossil from the Natural History Museum s, Palaeontology Department

Turtle skull bivalve
PDT unreg. Steinkern or internal cast of an unidentified bivalve, Cretaceous, North Carolina, U.S.A

South American frogs and toads
Including Phryniscus nigricans, found by Charles Darwin. From Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle Vol 1-3

Dinosaur coprolites
Fossilised faecal droppings of a dinosaur (probably Titanosaurus) with plant debris on the surface. From the Upper Cretaceous of India

Homonota darwini and Naultinuselegans, two species of lizar

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