Images Dated 17th April 2013 (page 41)

Meteorite
A piece of the meteorite which landed in Barwell, Leicestershire on Christmas Eve, 1965

Tyto alba, barn owl

Ithaginis cruentus, blood pheasant
Plate 43 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 7, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Calliphora vicina, blowfly or blue bottle
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a blowflys wing

Dr James Scott Bowerbank (1797-1877)
Portrait of Dr James Scott Bowerbank, an English naturalist and palaeontologist. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Cobaltite

Butterflies of the family Pieridae
Mounted specimens of the small white (Pieris rapae) and green-veined white (Pieris napi) butterflies

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

Tyrannosaurus rex
T.rex has made a dramatic return to the Natural History Museums dinosaur gallery with the arrival of a new animatronic model

Dacelo tyro, spangled kookaburra
Plate 51 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Early Cretaceous landscape, Southern England
Artists impression of an Early Cretaceous (144 to 90 million years ago) landscape in Southern England, with Iguanodon, turtle, and crocodiles

Moths of the family Saturniidae
Mounted specimens of the Spanish moon moth (Graellsia isabellae). Moths are nocturnal insects, generally with a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae

Papilio, white butterfly
Illustration of a white butterfly by John Abbot, Tab, 275, Volume 16 from the Abbot Collection held in the Natural History Museums Entomology Library

Homoeosaurus maximiliani
A fossil specimen of Homoeosaurus maximiliani. Sphenodontid lizard that dates back to the Traissic period. This specimen was discovered at the Litho Stone formation, Kelheim, Germany

Cymatophlebia longialata, fossil dragonfly

Maiasaura with nest of eggs and hatchlings
An animated model of the dinosaur Miasaura, created by Kokoro Ltd. for the Natural History Museum, London. This dinosaur whose name meand good mother lizard lived during the Upper Cretaceous 60-85 mya

Portable seismometer in use, 1973
A seismometer is an instrument that detects earth movements, or seismic waves that are producded during earthquakes

Homo erectus, Acheulian man
An illustration of a lakeside campsite 400, 000 years ago of Acheulian man (Homo erectus) in the Quaternary Hoxnian Interglacial period, Lower Palaeolithic

Phodilus badius, Oriental bay owl
Plate 14 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897)
Portrait of Edward Drinker Cope, an American palaeontologist and evolutionist

Mrs Clara D Orville Gorham (1833-1920)
Portrait of Clara D Orville Gorham. Painting, oil on canvas, by Hely Augustus Morton Smith (1862-1941), c. 1905. Original at the Natural History Museum, London

Myotragus
The skull of the extinct mammal Myotragus. This animal which lived around 6000 years ago was from the antelope group. Its remains have been found in the Balearic islands

Tyto capensis, grass owl
Plate 18 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph

Pleistocene Britain, Swanscombe waterhole
Diorama of Pleistocene (1.8 million to 11, 000 years ago) waterhole in Swanscombe, Kent, Britain, with elephant, fallow deer, rhinoceros, bear, bison, and man living in open grassland. See image 405

Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, weedy seadragon
Plate 38 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. This amazingly camouflaged fish is endemic to the south Australian coast from central New South Wales to south-western Western Australia

Oliva erythrostoma
Plate 31 from Coquilles Univalves Marines by Duclos (1835)

Pelargonium crispum, lemon geranium

Ornithorhynchus anatinus, duck-billed platypus
Plate 12 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803

Dressed fleas
Fleas dressed by a Mexican woman in 1905. A curiosity from the Natural History Museum at Tring

Fractured anther
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing a fractured anther, otherwise known as the sac, which contains the pollen in the male sex organs (stamens)

Anhydrite
A specimen of the mineral anhydrite (calcium sulphate) from the Simplon tunnel through the Alps which links Switzerland to Italy

Rhamphorhynchus
A model of the Rhamphorhynchus, a Pterosaur, an extinct giant flying reptile. They lived around 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period

Tyrannosaurus rex
An animatronic model of T.rex on display in the Dino Pit at the Natural History Museum, London

Natives Tongataboo, Friendly Islands photographed during the
Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes and seems to have been the first expedition to carry an official photographer as well as an official

Excavations at Piltdown circa 1913
Charles Dawson (left) and Dr A Smith Woodward (right)

Favonigobius sp. goby
Plate 32A from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Study detail of head, body and tail

Vini peruviana, blue lorikeet
Ff. 49. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Psittacus sapphirinus, Psittacus taitianus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Iguanodon atherfieldensis skull
The skull belonging to Iguanodon atherfieldensis measuring 450mm long. The fossil was discovered along with a complete skeleton in Brook Bay, Isle of Wight and collected by R.W. Hardy in 1917

Diagram showing the Earths interior
Crust - continents 35km, oceans 6km. Mantle - peridotite 2900km. Outer core - iron (liquid) 2000km. Inner core - iron (solid) 1370km

NHM Geology Department staff, 1881

Danaus plexippus, monarch butterfly
The monarch, also known as the milkweed is the largest butterfly found in the U.K. It is not a native butterfly, but is a rare visitor from the U.S.A

Silicified brachiopod
This specimen shows spiral supports for the brachiopod feeding system. Preserved inside are one of the valves, and have been etched out with acid

Thryothorus ludovicianus, Carolina wren
Plate 78 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Trogon viridis, white-tailed trogon
Plate 21, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds A Monograph of the Trogonid, or family of Trogons, (1838)

Coragyps atratus, black vulture
Plate 106 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Rhamphorhynchus
A model specimen of the Rhamphorhynchus, a Pterosaur, an extinct giant flying reptile. They lived around 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period

Passerina caerulea, blue grosbeak
Plate 122 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Eclectus roratus, eclectus parrot
Plate 31 from John Goulds Birds of New Guinea, Vol. 5 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

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