Images Dated 17th April 2013 (page 44)

Captain James Cook (1728-1779)
Portrait of Captain James Cook, an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. From a painting by Sir Nathaniel Dance

Vireo solitarius, blue-headed vireo
Plate 28 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

Zenaida macroura, mourning dove
Plate 17 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

Triceratops skull
Side view of a Triceratops skull on display at the Natural History Museum, London. This specimen has moved from this location and can now be seen in the Dinosaur Gallery

Lower Jurassic dinosaurs discovered in England
An illustration showing scene in Lower Jurassic (175 - 200 mya) South England, featuring a Megalosaurus (above) catching sight of a possible victim, the primitive ornithischian Scelidosaurus dinosaur

Passerina ciris, painted bunting

Fratercula cirrhata, tufted puffin
Plate 249 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Canis latrans, coyote
Canis Latrans (Say), Prairie Wolf (Males). Plate 71 from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Vol. 2 (1846) by John James Audubon (1785-1851) and John Bachman (1790-1874)

Edmontosaurus laboratory work
Palaeontologists working on the dinosaur, Edmontosaurus. Applying a resin solution hardener to consolidate and protect freshly prepared fossil bones; here the ankle

Carboniferous coal forest
Artists impression of a Carboniferous (354 to 290 million years ago) coal forest

Homo neanderthalensis (Swanscombe 1) Cranium
Three cranial bones discovered at the Barnfield Gravel Pit, Swanscombe, Kent between 1935 and 1955. Both the date and species of these homind remains have been the subject over the last decade or so

Tyrannosaurus rex

Asteraceae, daisy
Scanning electron microscope image of the fractured surface of an anther showing a developing pollen grain from a member of the daisy or Asteraceae family ( X 3000)

Lumbricus terrestris, earthworm
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing the chaeta/setae - involved in the locomotion on an earthworm

Huayangosaurus skull
A fossil skull that once belonged to Huayangosaurus, a dinosaur from the infraorder Stegosauria. This specimen was discovered in Sichuan, China in 1982

Birthstone Series: Chrysoprase
A specimen of the mineral, chrysoprase (BM1934.919) from the Natural History Museum, London. Chrysoprase is the birthstone for the month of May (along with Emerald). Photographed by Harry Taylor

Venus of Brassempouy
Human head (frontal view) carved in mammoth ivory of Gravettian age 22, 000 - 30, 000 years old (Upper Palaeolithic), from Brassempouy, France

Chondrodite
Chondrolite comprises of (magnesium iron silicate fluoride hydroxide) and often occurs in a granular form in crystalline limestones. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Phascolarctos cinereus, koala
Plate 3 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

Workers at Piltdown

Acroceolites subtenius, belemnites
A fine group of belemnites (Acroceolites subtenius) preserved in soft Jurassic shale from Yorkshire. Longest specimen is 9cm long

Iguanodon
A wealden reed swamp depicted during the Lower Cretaceous period around 130 million years ago featuring two Iguanodons. These dinosaurs whose fossils have been discovered in England stood 8 metres

Sula leucogaster, brown booby
Plate 207 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Sterna dougallii, roseate tern
Plate 240 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Aythya collaris, ring-necked duck
Plate 234 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Surinaamsche Insecten, Insects of Surinam
Plate 23 from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium of te Verandering der Surinaamsche Insecten by Maria Sibylla Merian

Brachaluteres jacksonianus, southern pygmy leatherjacket
Plate 28 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. This is a small compressed fish with no pelvic fins and a prominent dorsal spine

William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885)
A zoologist who researched and published in many areas including mental physiology, microscopy, marine biology, and religion. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank, Photographers. Ca 1854

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
Portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace, a Welsh naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. Painting, oil on canvas, by J. W. Beaufort, 1923

Anous stolidus, brown noddy
Plate 275 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Chalcophyllite
Chalcopyrite or copper pyrite comprises of (copper iron sulphide). Its a common mineral and found in almost all sulphide deposits

Mammuthus primigenius, woolly mammoth
Woolly mammoth here depicted in a reconstruction of of the Holartic regions during the last Ice Age. Small in comparison to other species of mammoth averaging 2.8 meters at the shoulder

Swimming crab fossil
Fossilised specimen of a swimming crab found in Folkestone, England. Swimming crabs still inhabit British shores today. They have flattened, paddle-like back legs to assist in swimming

Rubies and sapphires
Crystals of ruby from Burma which is the red variety of corundum (aluminium oxide). The other variety is sapphire, this specimen is from Kashmir. The lower left specimen is the Edwardes Ruby

Sauropod excavation, 1988
Team cleaning exposed elements of the fore and hind limbs of a Sauropod dinosaur in Niger, 1988

Delphinus delphis, common dolphin
Ff. 31. Painting by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain James Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

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

Raphicerus melanotis, cape grysbok
Ff. 17. Annotated Antelope tragulus, Melanotis... Greis-bock in Dutch. Painting by George Forster (1754-1794), made during Captain Cooks second voyage of discovery, 1772-1775

Concretions

Empidonax traillii, willow flycatcher
Plate 45 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

Cheilopogon sp. flyingfish
Plate 37 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Flying fish are small-school and surface dwelling and can be found globally in all tropical and temperate seas

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Painting of Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, by Magnus Hallman, c. 1780. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London. Linnaeus is known as the Father of Taxonomy

Dinosaurs
A collection of model dinosaurs. From left to right: Deinonychus, Ornithomimus, Iguanodon, Tyrannosaurus, Hypsilophodon, Triceratops and in the foreground, Scelidosaurus

Archaeopteryx lithographica [London specimen]
Close-up of upper jaw showing five teeth on the counterpart of the Natural History Museums Archaeopteryx lithographica specimen, discovered at Solnhofen, Germany, dating back to 147 million years ago

Stegosaurus
A herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Upper Jurassic period, 155 to 144 million years ago. It has distinctive large plates which run from its neck to its tail

Ammodramus caudacutus, saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow
Plate 149 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

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873)
Lithograph portrait, 1850. Adam Sedwick was a highly respected scientist, and one of the founders of geology as a science in England. In 1829 he became President of the Geological Society of London

Rallus longirostris, clapper rail
Plate 204 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

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