Images Dated 18th April 2013 (page 11)

Darwins Pigeons
Charles Darwin gave his personal collection on pigeons to the Museum in 1867 and 1868, as part of a bigger collection of domestic birds including ducks, chickens and even cararies

Tooth from Coelodonta antiquitatis, woolly rhinoceros
This woolly rhino tooth, together with two others were found in 1668 at Chartham, near Canterbury in Kent by natural historian John Somner

Modern human skull
Skull of an adult, female modern human

The Natural History Museum
An exterior view of the main entrance to the Natural History Museum, London. Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Libellulium longialata, dragonfly
Fossil dragonfly from the Late Jurassic (150 million years old), Germany. On display in From the Beginning, Gallery 63, Earth Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London

Section of Chassigny meteorite
Thin section of Chassigny in cross-polarized light, showing shocked and deformed olivine grains. The field of view is 3mm

Bluebottle maggots
Numerous bluebottle fly maggots or larvae feeding on carrion

Blue John
Polished slice of Blue John from Derbyshire, England. The mineral is so far unique to one location in the Derbyshire Peak District, England

Egyptian mummified cat
Photograph of an Egyptian mummified cat. Over 2000 years ago, an ancient Egyptian painstakingly wrapped and embalmed this domestic cat as a religious offering to an animal-headed god

Plate 327 from The Gleanings of Natural History by George Ed
Plate 327, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated Swallow-tailed Indian Roller

The Esquel pallasite, composed of gem-quality olivine crystals embedded in metal. Pallasites are perhaps the most beautiful of all meteorites

Glossina morsitans morsitans, savanna tsetse fly
Plate 67 from a drawings collection of Oriental and African blood-sucking flies.. Watercolour and ink on paper, c.1906 by Grace Edwards (1875-1926). Held in the Library and Archives Date: circa 1906

Cyprinus auratus, goldfish
Plate 203 from Animals. Descriptions of animals observed on a voyage to Canton, pre 1782

Raphus cucullatus, dodo
Plate 294, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 2 (1760)

Milvus milvus, red kite
Plate 82 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)

Squid specimen
Specimen jar containing squid, held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Hominid reconstructions in chronological order
From left to right: Australopithecus, early Homo erectus (Java Man), late Homo erectus (Peking Man), Homo heidelbergensis (Rhodesian Man), Neanderthal Man and Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon)

Pinguinus impennis, great auk
1 of 6 shots of Dr Leachs 139 great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held at the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

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

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

Sepia elegans, squid
A glass model of a squid, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

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

Danaus plexippus, monarch butterfly
Photograph of a mounted specimen of a monarch butterfly, found in North and South America, Pacific and Atlantic islands, and occasional migrant to the U.K

Selenicereus hamatus, Queen of the night
Watercolour No. 9 by Walter Hood Fitch, c. mid-1800s. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Velociraptor
An animatronic model of the dinosaur Velociraptor created by Kokoro for the Natural History Museum

Turquoise
A specimen of the mineral turquoise (hydrated copper aluminum phosphate). This mineral has been used in jewellery since the ancient Egyptians

Sturnus vulgaris, European starling
Plate 156 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Letter written by Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913)
Letter from the nineteenth century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace to Frederick Bates, sent from Singapore in 1856

George in the entrance, April 1927, the Natural History Mus
The removal of George the African elephant from the Central Hall in April 1927 for remounting

Homo sapiens skull (Italy)
Homo sapiens cranium dating back to around 500 BC, showing the typical morphology fora skull from Italy for the Etruscan period

Rhinoceros unicornis, Indian rhinoceros

Theobroma cacao, cocoa tree
Illustration from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol 2 by Mark Catesby (1683-1749)

Punica granatum, pomegranate
Plate 80 from Botanicum Medicinale (1759) by Timothy Sheldrake. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Tyrannosaurus rex, Upper Cretaceous dinosaur
Model of the animatronic scavenger T. rex manufactured by Kokoro Dreams, Tokyo. T. rex The Killer Question exhibition at The Natural History Museum, London

Prunus persica, peach
Plate 77 from Botanicum Medicinale (1759) by Timothy Sheldrake. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Belemnites

Parus ater, coal tit
A coal tit (Parus ater) in flight, U.K. Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Beta vulgaris, spinach beet
Illustration from Icones florae Germaniacea et Helveticae Reichenback (1850) by C. Ludwig. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Columba jouyi, Ryukyu pigeon
Photograph of Columba jouyi specimen. Photographed by Harry Taylor, 2009. This species is now extinct

Snake
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Blue John specimen
A compact banded variety of Fluorite known as Blue John, found only in Castleton, Derbyshire, England. This specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London

Vanessa atalanta, red admiral
Photograph of a mounted specimen of the upperside of a female red admiral. Ranges from Europe and N. Africa to China and Japan, also N. America

Ashcroft Collection of Swiss minerals
Frederick Noel Ashcroft meticulously recorded details relating to his collections in his notebooks, which are now housed at the Natural History Museum, London

Butterflies painted by H. W. Bates
A page from a notebook of Henry W. Bates relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854

Paeonia moutan cv
Plate 1 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

The Rowland Ward Diorama
An okapi in the Rowland Ward Diorama at the Natural History Museum, London. This display was removed in 2004

Cassowary Head
Illustration of a Cassowary Head by John Keulemans (1842-1912)

Pipistrellus pipistrellus, common pipistrelle
Plate 118 Common Bat or Pipistrelle. Original watercolour drawing from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 2, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine (1800-1874)

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