Images Dated 18th April 2013 (#102)

Toad Stones or fish teeth

The harbour at Bahia, Brazil, South America 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Hewett Cottrell Watson (1804-1881)
Portrait of Hewett Cottrell Watson, a 19th Century botanist who studied the distribution of plants within the UK

Curcuma sp. turmeric
A photograph of one of the decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall. Showing Curcuma sp. turmeric from Asia

Idol from the Marquesas Islands
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Canal, Fiji
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Saccharum officinarum, sugarcane
Sir Hans Sloane specimen of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) from Jamaica

Geyser springs, Fuernaz, Azores 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

John Goulds hummingbird cases
As Curator and Preserver to the Museum of the Zoological Society of London, in 1851 John Gould compiled an exhibition of stuffed hummingbirds which were displayed in 24 custom-made cases

Bust of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist. Linnaeus is known as the Father of Taxonomy. In the collection at the Natural History Museum

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882)
A portrait of Charles Darwin, the British-born naturalist and author of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859)

Village and low hills. Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Waterfall, Levuka, Fiji Islands
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

The Botany Library Special Collections Room
The Botany Library at the Natural History Museum London. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened to the public on Easter Monday 1881

Fragaria sp. strawberry
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a strawberry (Fragaria sp.), artificially coloured by computer

Sand drift overwhelming a garden, Burmuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Chaptalia nutans, silverpuff
Chaptalia nutans specimen in the Sloane Herbarium taken from Jamaica

Pinguinus impennis, great auk
1 of 6 shots of Spallanzanis great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

Mikado of Japan (copy), Japan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Sir Dr. John Kirk (1832-1922)
Portrait of Dr. John Kirk, a naturalist who collected specimens from all over South Africa

Architeutis dux, giant squid
This 8.62-metre giant squid (Architeutis dux), called Archie, was caught off the coast of the Falkland Islands in March 2004

Chart of oceanic section, Tristan D Acunha to Cape of Good H
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Cypress tree
Plate 10 from The Shape, skeleton and foliage of 32 species of Trees (1786). The series was originally issued in 1771

Leptoglossis ferreyraei
A pollen grain of Leptoglossis ferreyraei (polar view) from the family Solanaceae, the tomato family

Lions Head, Cape Town, South Africa
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Anser anser, greylag goose
Feathers from the greylag goose (Anser anser)

Hong Kong after typhoon, September 1894
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Orange Grove, St. Michael, Azores 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1881)
British born naturalist on board H.M.S. Beagle and author of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859)

Canal scene Yokohama Japan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger(1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Noddy
A pencil sketch from the Drawings Collection of Thomas Malie (1726-42)

Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia

Crystal Palace Dinosaur Models
Models sculpted by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, working closely with Joseph Paxton and Richard Owen, were installed in the worlds first dinosaur park which opened at Crystal Palace Park in 1854

View near Fuernaz, Azores, 1873
Lake in Crater of extinct volcano, St. Michael, Azores

Harbour near Shameen Island, Canton, China
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Dr. Henry Fletcher Hance (1827�)
Portrait of Dr. Henry Fletcher Hance, a botanist and diplomat who worked in Hong Kong, Whampoa and Canton, China on diplomatic roles

Isastraea oblonga, polished coral
Isastraea oblonga (Fleming). From the Jurassic period, Portlandian, Upper Beds, Tisbury, Wiltshire

Oviraptor
An animatronic Oviraptor dinosaur made by Kokoro in colabroration with the Natural History Museum, London

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1881)
Bust of the naturalist Charles Darwin by B. Watagin

Baryonyx
The Baryonyx which lived during the Lower Cretaceous was a bipedal carnivore which had a set of sharp teeth as well as a 30cm claw on each forehand. Illustration by Jo Konopelko

Tobacco market, Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Velociraptor
An animatronic model of the dinosaur Velociraptor created by Kokoro for the Natural History Museums Dino Jaws exhibition running from 30th June 2006 to 15 April 2007

Rosmarinus rigidus, rosemary
Illustration from Icones ad Floram Europae (1867) by Alexis Jordan. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Touch-screen display in the Central Hall
A visitor at the Natural History Museum using one of the touch-screen display panels located in the Central Hall

Watercolour of a bird by Olivia Fanny Tonge
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge. 180mm x 260mm. From one of sixteen sketchbooks presented to the Museum in 1952

Woman in a jinrikisha (Japanese rickshaw), Japan

Phragmites oeningensis
Fossil from the Natural History Museum s, Palaeontology Department

Fragaria sp. strawberry
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a strawberry (Fragaria sp.), artificially coloured by computer

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