Images Dated 18th April 2013 (page 41)

Birthstone Series: Peridot
Peridot, a gemstone from the Natural History Museum, London. Peridot is the birthstone for the month of August (along with Sardonyx). Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Darwin Centre Live Presentation
Scientist giving live presentation in the Darwin Center

Smilodon fatalis, sabre-toothed cat
Skeleton on display in the Mammal Gallery at The Natural History Museum, London

Ornithorhynchus anatinus, duck-billed platypus
Photograph of the partially webbed foot of a duck-billed platypus skin specimen, held at the Natural History Museum London

20th Century Art: Wildlife sketch no. 4, by David Measures
Ball point pen and watercolour. Not wishing to follow traditional methods of scientific illustration, Measures chose to develop a technique which enabled an immediate method of recording his

Boys sketching rabbit, 1949. The Natural History Museum, Lo
To ensure the children actually learnt something during their visit, they had to research and produce a description of the animals they drew

Shell
Specimen shell held at the Natural History Museum, London

Mollusc
Plate 2 by J Drouet from his Etudes sur les naiades de la France, Vol. 2, 1857

Foraminifera models
One drawer containing some of d Orbigny models and slides previously displayed alongside the models in the galleries

Erinaceus europaeus, western European hedgehog
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Foraminifera
Part of the display of foraminifera from The Great Exhibition of 1851. Featured are specimens from the London Clay, the Paris Basin and the Gulf of Suez

frog
One of the 140 frog species known from the island of Sri Lanka. Many of these frogs have only been discovered in the last decade or so

Allosaurus
A skeletal reconstruction of Allosaurus, the Upper Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur that lived 153 to 135 million years ago. On display at the Natural History Museum, London

Gemstone series: sapphire
Sapphire, the blue variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). Sapphire can be found in a number of different colours. Specimen at the Natural History Museum, London

Hoverfly
Illustration of a hoverfly by Gilles Bosquet, 1999. Watercolour on paper

Lions in debris, 1944. The Natural History Museum, London
The flying bomb of 11 July 1944 followed one on 5 July, and together the two did a great deal of damage, as can be seen here in the Lower Mammal Gallery

Plant Illustration
Plate 407 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Darwin Centre Live Presentation
Scientist giving a talk at the Darwin Centre Live forum

Foraminifera models
Two mounted d Orbigny models showing recent and fossil taxa foraminifera

bird
A specimen collected by Dr A. Habel, labelled Camarhynchus variegatus

Children with bird specimens, 1948. The Natural History Mus
In December 1948 a Childrens Centre opened at the Museum. Jacqueline Palmer, a teacher seconded from the London County Council, had come up with the idea

Butterflies
Plate 1 Frontispiece from The Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society, No. 20, November 1924. (mimetic female forms of Papilio dardanus)

Meles meles, Eurasian badger
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Dr. Angela Milner
Dr Angela Milner of the Natural History Museum, London

Chaetodon sp. Cristiceps aurantiacus, Microcanthus joyceae
Watercolour 381 by Thomas Watling, entitled Tag-ga, Tack-in-marra-dera, Dy-e-ne-ang, Ballang-an, from the Watling Collection

Antennarius striatus, striped anglerfish
Watercolour 382 by the Port Jackson Painter, from the Watling Collection

Beta vulgaris, common beet
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Phaethon rubricauda, red-tailed tropicbird
Watercolour 359 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Tropic Bird

Lepomis microlophus, redear sunfish
Drawing 10 (Ewan 37) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram

Colourful illustration of six fish
Folio 31 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Lepus europaeus, European brown hare
Plate 401 (285) Lievre a Cou Noir. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 4, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier

Aglais urticae, small tortoiseshell butterfly
Scanning electron microscope image showing the head of a small tortoiseshell butterfly (x 25 on a standard 9cm wide print). This image has been coloured artificially by computer

Wealden Landscape
Artists impression of vegetation and reptiles of the early Cretaceous, including Iguanodon, in south eastern England

Dacela novaeguineae, laughing kookaburra
Watercolour 159 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Great Brown Kingfisher, Goo-ge-na-gan

Alcedo atthis, common kingfisher
Plate 8 from Sir William Jardines The Naturalists Library. Original Drawings. Birds

Fossilised Mesturus verrucosus
Fossilised fish from upper Jurassic lithographic limestone, Eichstadt, Germany. 150 million years ago

Bulldog cranium 1906
Specimen number D94, Bulldog, Canis lupus familiaris. Juvenille bulldog skull, from dog called Neotsfield. 1906

Agate
Polished slice of agate from Uraguay. Agate (silicon dioxide) is a cryptocrystalline quartz

Quercus, pollard oak
Plate 22 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty two species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. The series was originally issued in 1771

Simias sp. pig-tailed monkey from Sumatra
Illustration from Gleanings of Natural History (1758-74) by George Edwards (1694-1773)

Kor-i-noor replica
An exact copy of the original Kor-i-noor diamond created from cubic zirconia by John Nels Hatleberg (Cat 157). Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Panthera leo, lion
Felis leo. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. Illustrated with 43 hand-coloured lithographs from watercolour drawings by Joseph Wolf

Bulldog cranium c. 1860
Specimen number 166. Bulldog, Canis lupus familiaris. Skull of Old English Bulldog. The oldfashoned Bulldog was much more like a Mastiff than is the modern breed. Presented by Mr E

Steneosaurus bollensis
A replica fossil specimen of Steneosaurus bollensis, an extinct reptile that looked similar to the modern day crocodile. It lived during the Upper Jurassic period

Malacorhynchus membranaceus, pink-eared duck
Watercolour 92 by Thomas Wattling from the Watling Collection titled the Mandibles of a very curious creature

Rove beetle in amber
Rove beetle, Coleoptera:Polyphaga:Staphylinidae trapped and preserved in Dominican amber. Amber is fossilised tree resin

Mazama canepestris guaszuti design
Drawing 62 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s

Bulwers Petrel
Illustration of Bulwers Petrel by William Jardine

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