Snail Collection (page 2)

Woman at work, Snail Research Centre
Woman at work in a Snail Research Centre. Date: 1967

Three insects and a snail on a Christmas card, progressing slowly along a country road. Date: circa 1890s

Frogs playing leapfrog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Goblins on a river on a Christmas and New Year card
Goblins having fun on a river on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Father and son studying a snail making its slow progress up a fence. Date: 1859

Posada, The ballad of the snail, Mexico
The ballad of the snail, Mexico. circa 1900s

Liparis, or Sea Snail, also known as Snailfish. Date: 1863

Montagus Sucker and Network Sucker
Montagus Sucker or Seasnail (Liparis montagui, male and female), and Network Sucker (old name: Liparis reticulatus, possibly Liparis liparis, or Common Seasnail). Date: 1863

Snail and grasshoppers racing, Les Images en Musique
Snails with grasshopper jockeys taking part in a race, with a mole at the finishing line, illustration in Les Images en Musique

Sopwith 8F1 Snail single seat fighter, designed in late 1917, doomed because its engine was not accepted. Only two were completed -- seen here is the second, serial no

Fossil smooth clam Cytheria chione, sea snail Turitella scalata and shark teeth.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidts Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany

Extinct fossil sea snails.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidts Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr

Fossils of extinct sea snails or the Silurian to Permian eras.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidts Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann

Garden snail, Helix aspersa.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Liguus snail, Liguus virgineus.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Female costume of the reign of Henry IV, 1399-1423.. Handcolored engraving from Civil Costume of England from the Conquest to the Present Period drawn by Charles Martin and etched by Leopold Martin

Will It Bite? by Muriel Dawson -- a little girls puppy looks dubiously at a snail. Date: 1941

Language of flowers 1918
Women flowers flirting with bees and butterflies. Date: 1918

Nursery Rhymes -- three illustrations. A man in a room full of mice reaches for a plate of meat on a shelf. A bridegroom wheels his bride along the road in a wheelbarrow. A frog eats a worm

A Snail in the Hand
A snail in the hand.. Date: early 1930s

Sopwith 8F1 Snail C4284
Sopwith 8F1 Snail, C4284

Sopwith 8F1 Snail

Sopwith 8F1 Snail C4288 with a monocoque fuselage
Sopwith 8F1 Snail, C4288, with a monocoque fuselage

Sopwith Salamander, Sopwith Snipe and Sopwith Snail Monocoque. April 1918. Date: 1918

Crepidula, slipper limpets
Slipper limpets collected by Charles Darwin in Chile on the Beagle voyage (1831-1836)

Neritina waigiensis, snail
A collection of colourful snail shells all from the same species

Scientists in Sri Lanka
Scientist searching for apple snails in a drain at Kabugannawa, Sri Lanka. Scientists on a trip that was part of a programme funded by the Darwin Initiative

Guildfordia yoka from Japan. Number 2387

Snail in Burmese amber
A snail in trapped and preserved in Burmese amber. Upper Cretaceous about 80 million years old. Image from Amber The Natural Time Capsule figure 59

Vertigo sp. marsh whorl snails
No.14 V. antivertigo, No.15 V. moulinsiana, No.16 V. pygmaea, No.19 V. pusilla, No.20 V. anguistor, No.21 V. edentula. Plate 4 from The Collectors Manual of British Shells by L E Adams (1896)

Snail ceiling panel
A photograph of one of the decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall. Showing a black and white painting of a snail

Fossilised naticid gastropods and leaves
Watercolour showing two views of a naticid gastropod and a fossilised leaf encased in a nodule by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Achatinella sp. Oahu tree snails

Partula affinis, P. otaheitana, French Polynesian tree snail
Plate 29 from Studies on the Genus Partula by Henry Edward Crampton (1916). Found only in French Polynesia this entire genus is on the brink of extinction due to predation from the introduced rosy

Freshwater snails
Specimen jar containing some freshwater snails, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Bulinus sp. snails
Specimen jar containing snails (Bulinus). These snails act as intermediate hosts for the parasite of the tropical disease bilharzia. Specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London

Platyphysa prinsepi, freshwater snails
65 million year old freshwater snail specimens that were engulfed by lava flows. Originating from the Late Cretaceous, Nagpur, India

Bulinus sp. Biomphalaria sp. African snails
A collection of shells of species involved in the life cycle of blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma which gives rise to the disease Schistosomiasis in humans

Athleta luctator, fossil sea snail
A fossil sea snail (Athleta luctator) dating from the late Eocene rocks around Barton, England

Little girl and snails by Muriel Dawson
A little girl holding a posy of flowers looks down at a group of snails, by Muriel Dawson. circa 1930s

Vessel shaped as a snail decorated with an old man sculpture. Maya art. Ceramics. MEXICO. Mexico City. National Museum of Anthropology. Proc: MEXICO. Simojovel

Herbs, insects and flowers. School of Mathias Withoos (17th c.). Baroque art. Oil on canvas

The Fairy Child

Peaceful scene in cemetery
Wild flowers grow and intertwine in this peaceful cemetery scene, with a bird perched on a leaf singing, and a snail crawling along slowly below. 1925

Venice, Italy - Scala Contarini del Bovolo
The Scala Contarini del Bovolo (also called Palazzo Contarini Minnelli dal Bovolo) is a small palace in Venice. The architect Giorgio Spavento added this wonderful staircase to the original

Girl and boy sitting on a garden wall
A girl and a boy, Patty and Paul, sitting on a garden wall, where they have found two snails. Below is a windmill. first published 1879

Four and Twenty Tailors went to kill a snail, the best man amongst them durst not touch her tail. She put out her horns like a little Keyloe cow

British Snails Training
Mrs. Connie Lythgoe holds a training session for some British snails. Their international races will help to provide shelter for the homeless. Date: 1960s

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