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Old male Asian Paradise Flycatcher WatercolourOriginal watercolour drawings and illustrated MS relating to Indian Birds, forming one of a set of volumes from which the illustrated MS work by Tickell on Mammals, &c
Spotted Red Shank (male) Watercolour Plate 35Original watercolour drawings and illustrated MS relating to Indian Birds, forming one of a set of volumes from which the illustrated MS work by Tickell on Mammals, &c
Nathaniel Charles Rothschild (1877-1923)The younger brother of Tring Museum founder Walter Rothschild, Charles was a keen entomologist, discovering the plague vector flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, in Shendi, Sudan
Pachira aquatica, Malabar or Guyana chestnutWatercolour by Robert Schomburgk, 1840s Date: 1840
Emu by Gambier BoltonEmu photogrpaph by Gambier Bolton, F Zs 354, held at The Natural History Museum at Tring
Beechcraft F-2-BHUnited States Army Air Corps - Beechcraft F-2-BH. (The 14 F-2s were given the msn 340 to 353 and serial numbers 40-682 to 40-695)
Andrewsarchus mongoliencis, Skull castCast of the only known cranium of Andrewsarchus mongoliensis from the Eocene of Irdin Manha, China (original is in the AMNH)
Nathan Natty, 1st Baron RothschildLiberal politician, banker, philanthropist and father of Walter Rothschild, he built what became the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum
Giant tortoise being fed at Tring ParkIn 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises
Southern cassowary by JG KeulemansHand-coloured lithograph of cassowary head by JG Keulemans (c. 1898), based on the live animals at Walter Rothschilds Museum at Tring
Great auk, Pinguinus impennisThe great auk, Pinguinus impennis, is one of the most powerful symbols of the damage humans can cause. The species was driven extinct as a result of centuries of intense human exploitation
Aquilegia vulgaris, ColumbineInk drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1903 Date: 1903
Homo sapiens cranium (Predmosti 3) cast
Homo sapiens cranium (Irhoud 1)Lateral and frontal view of a cast of an adult male Homo sapiens skull discovered at Jebel Irhoud (formerly Ighoud), Morocco, by Mohammed Ben Fatmi, Summer 1961
Homo sapiens cranium (Cro-Magnon 1)Lateral and frontal view of a cast of a skull belonging to Homo sapiens Le Viellard, adult male about 45 years of age. Discovered near the station, Les Eyzies de Tayac, France by workmen, March 1868
Homo sapiens cranium (Irhoud 2)Lateral and facial view of a cast of a skull belonging to an adult male Homo sapiens discovered at Jebel Irhoud (formerly Ighoud), Barytes mine S.E of Safi, Morocco, by Mohammed Ben Fatmi, summer 1961
Homo sapiens cranium (Qafzeh 9)Lateral and frontal view of a cast of a Homo sapiens adult skull discovered at Dkebel Kafzeh, Israel by B. Vandermeersch, 1965-1969
Caretaker Fred YoungFred Young was a caretaker and taxidermist at Walter Rothschilds Zoological Museum at Tring in the early 19th Century, succeeding the original caretaker Alfred Minall
Northern cassowary by JG KeulemansHand-coloured lithograph of cassowary head by JG Keulemans (c. 1898), based on the live animals at Walter Rothschilds Museum at Tring
Pitta Iris, from the Gould CollectionRainbow Pitta, Pitta Iris, specimen, collected by Captain Chambers in Australia between 1839 and 1841 Date: 1839
Rallus phippensisBuff-banded Rail, Rallus phippensis, collected by JB Jukes in Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia on August 1843 Date: 1843
Motacilla flava, Western Yellow Wagtail, maleSkin of Western Yellow Wagtail collected by 19th Century naturalist Emin Pasha in Tingasi, Equatorial Africa. 02/10/1883. Original NHM label: Budytes flava 1887.9.28.156 Date: 1887
Chrysanthemum, CT scan imageCT Scan image of a Chrysanthemum
Sopwith Model V: Dislocations of coal strataThis model shows that while very little coal may appear at ground level, coal seams (subject to faults and dislocations) can be found below the ground
Chimarrogale varennei, lateral view
Chimarrogale varennei, mandible
Prosqualodon davidi, skull castCast of the cranium of Prosqualodon davidi from the early Miocene of Tasmania, Australia (original skull no longer exists)
Homo neanderthalensis (Ferrassie 1) craniumCranium and mandibula cast of an adult male Neandertal Man (Homo neanderthalensis) discovered at La Ferrassie, Dordogne, France, by D Peyrony and L. Captian in 1909
Tockus erythrorhynchus, Red-billed hornbillWatercolour by Claude Finch-Davies
Dodo skeleton, Raphus cucullatusThe dodo is an icon of extinction, one of the first widely acknowledged cases of a species being wiped out by humans. There are so few complete dodo skeletons that we may never know exactly what they
Hemitragus jemlahicus, Himalayan tahrIllustration from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection; c. 1850s Date: circa 1850
Hystrix cristata; Crested PorcupineIllustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection; 1823 Date: 1823
Eledone cirrhosa, Curled OctopusIllustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection, marked Sepia octopodia
Bostrychia olivacea, Olive IbisWatercolour by Henrik Gronveld, c. 1910 Date: circa 1910
Various Scarabaeus spWatercolour and ink from Drawings of Mandibulata Insects of India, Thomas Hardwicke Collection; 1822 Date: 1822
Gryllus sp. cricket head viewsWatercolour and ink by J. Hayes, from Drawings of insects from Bengal and other parts of India. Thomas Hardwicke Collection; 1820 Date: 1820
White-eared pheasantIllustration by Rajman Singh from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection; c. 1850s Date: 1850
Dasypus novemcinctus, Nine-banded armadilloHand coloured lithograph by John James Audubon from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 1848. Date: 1848
Aix sponsa, Wood duckWatercolour by John Abbot, 1827 Date: 1827
Phoenicopterus roseus, Greater FlamingoWatercolour by Claude Finch-Davies
Chamaeleo zeylanicus, Indian chameleonIllustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection; attributed to artist J. Hayes; 1819
Tragopan satyra; Satyr tragopan; maleIllustration by Rajman Singh from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection; c. 1850s Date: 1850
Homo sapiens craniumA cast of a human (Homo sapiens) cranium held at the Natural History Museum, London
Homo sapiens cranium (Mladec 1)Lateral view of a cast of a skull belonging to a male Homo sapiens discovered at Mladec, Boceks Cave by J. Szombathy, June 1881
Homo sapiens cranium (Qafzeh 6)Lateral view of a cast of (Qafzeh 6), a homo sapiens cranium with dentition. Discovered at Djebel Kafzeh, Israel by R. Neuville & M. Stekelis, 1934. Middle Palaeolithic 250, 000-35, 000 BP
Homo sapiens skullLateral and frontal view of a cast of Homo sapiens skull from Eliye Springs, Kenya. Middle Pleistocene 790, 000-130, 000
Homo sapiens cranium (Singa 1)Lateral view of a Homo sapiens skull discovered at Singa, West bank of the River Nile, Sudan, by W.R.G Bond, February 1924