Images Dated 17th April 2013 (page 11)

Ara macao, scarlet macaw
Plate 22 painting by Louis Bourquet from Francois Le Vaillants Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, Vol. 1, (1801). Annotated L Ara Canga

Cervus xanthopygus, deer
Plate 21 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Genyagnus monopterygius, spotted stargazer
Ff. 214. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75). Annotated Perca grunniens

Alphitonia zizyphoides, toi
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Mucuna gigantea, sea bean

Archaeopteryx [Berlin specimen]
Cast of the Archaeopteryx fossil specimen held at the Berlin Natural History Museum. It shows clearly the spread-out wings and long clased fingers

Ardea purpurea, purple heron
Plate 21 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Phalaropus lobatus, red-necked phalarope
Plate 83 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Inachis io, peacock butterfly, emerging from its pupa
Picture 1, series B, in a sequence of 6 pictures showing the emergence of a peacock butterfly, from its pupa or chrysalis form

Lo Bengulu King of the Matabeliland
Receiving his army on their return from a successful raid among the Mashonas Nov. 1870. Sketch 60 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines (1820-1875)

Parika scaber, leatherjacket
Ff. 247. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Puffinus puffinus, Manx shearwater
Plate 84 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Anourosorex squamipes, mole shrew
& Talpa longirostris, long nosed mole. Plate 38 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammiferes by Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885). Published Paris, 1868-74

Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae, red-fronted parakeet
Ff. 12, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Hirundo rustica, barn swallow
Plate 5 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Barringtonia speciosa, barringtonia tree
No. 266 from the Botanical Drawings by George Forster made during Cooks second voyage 1772-1775. Illustration annotated with the number 191

Lepus timidus, Arctic hare
Mountain hare in winter. Plate 35 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Collection of sea creatures
Plate 4 from Explication. Egypte et Syrie by Savigny and Audouin, 1876

Prunus amygdalus, almond
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Hemignathus virens, Hawaii amakihi
Ff. 31, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)

Fulica atra, common coot
Plate 84 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Putorius fontanierii & P. astutus
Plate 61 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Lymnocryptes minimus, jack snipe
Plate 80 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Burhinus oedicnemus, Eurasian stone curlew
Plate 35 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Phormium tenax, New Zealand flax
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Limodorum altum, squashed orchid pollina
Unfinished Drawings, Monocotyledons 1, Orchidaceae 1, No 71 by Franz Andreas Bauer

Cordia subcordata, kou tree
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Cordia sebestena

Ichthyosaurus, Rhamphorhynchus, Plesiosaurus, Megalosaurus
Plate 82 Life on Jurassic Shores 165 Million Years Ago an illustration from Britain Before Man by F.W. Dunning et al (1978)

Epinephelus fasciatus, black-tipped rockcod
Ff. 561 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Epacris longiflora, fuschia heath
Finished watercolour by James Miller from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Anas clypeata, northern shoveller

Petroica macrocephala, New Zealand tit
Ff. 149. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Turdus minutus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Physalia physalis, Portuguese man-of-war
Ff. 38 Vol 3. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

32 Soho Square
Engraving from the Banks Archive at the Natural History Museum, London. 32 Soho Square was the residence and Herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks, an English naturalist and botanist

Chaetodon sp. butterflyfish

The Latrobe gold nugget
A 717gm mass of crystallised cubes of gold about 11cms in length. Specimen was found at Mt. Ivor, Victoria, Australia in the presence of the then govenor of the colony, C. J. Latrobe

Antilope caudata, blackbuck
Plate 23 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Philomacus pugnax, ruff
Plate 62 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Pseudoscorpion in Baltic amber dating from the Upper Eocene period about 35 million years old. Arachnida, Pseudoscorpionida, identified by A.J. Ross. Specimen from Kaliningrad, Russia

Bothriospondylus madagascariensis
A fossil specimen of an anterior cervical vertebra, or neck bone that once belonged to the dinosaur, Bothriospondylus madagascariensis

Phormium tenax
Illustration of Phormium tenax by George Forster

Ixobrychus minutus, little bittern
Plate 29 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Lama glama, llama
Llama. Llama Glama, July 23 1884. Hand coloured lithograph of a drawing by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins from Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall; Hoofed Quadrupeds, 1850

The Raspberry
This plate represents the Red and White Antwerp, and the Common Raspberries. The White at the top, the Red at the bottom and the Common in the middle. Plate 2 from Brookshaw, G. (1817)

Hemignathus obscurus, lesser akialoa

Meriones unguiculatus, Mongolian jird
Plate 11 by Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards. From Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr

Turnix sylvaticus, Common buttonquail
Plate 16 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Parus palustris, marsh tit
Plate 27 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

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