Images Dated 18th April 2013 (page 43)

Colourful illustration of three fish
Plate 30 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Earwig skin in Baltic amber
A shed earwig skin in Baltic amber, this specimen has very long pincers. Specimen dates from the Upper Eocene. Image from Amber the Natural Time Capsule

Phoenicurus phoenicurus, common redstart nest and eggs
Plate 54 from James Boltons third edition of Harmonia Ruralis: or an essay towards a natural history of British Song Birds, Vol.2, (1845)

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937)
Carriage drawn by a zebra driven by Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, founder of the Natural History Museum at Tring, now part of the Natural History Museum, London

Vitis sp. royal muscadine grape

Colourful illustration of of two fish and a crustacean
Folio 42 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Asimina obovata, flag pawpaw & Asimina pygmaea, dwarf pawpaw
Drawing 18 (Ewan 45) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Great Auk Eggs
Illustration of Great Auk Eggs by Henrik Gronvold (1858-1940)

Anorthosite breccia, moon rock
Specimen of anorthosite breccia, or moon rock, collected on the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972, and mounted in an acrylic block for protection and display

Felis silvestris ornata, Asian steppe wildcat
Felis ornata. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

Common Snipe
Illlustration of a Common Snipe by Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)

View of the entrance into Port Jackson Harbour
Drawing 4 from the Watling Collection titled A View of the Entrance into Port Jackson Harbour by a Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Amblyrhynchus cristatus, marine iguana design
Drawing 23 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of panels in windows of first floor south front of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875

Bubo virginianus, great horned owl
Plate 227, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 1 (1758)

Plate 205 from Reichenbachs Synopsis Avium
Plate 205 from Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbachs Synopsis Avium. Gallinaceae, (1848)

Callorhinchus milii, elephant fish
Watercolour 377 unsigned and undated, entitled Warriwall, from the Watling Collection

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

Water bug in amber
A water bug preserved in Dominican amber. This specimen dates from the Lower Miocene period

Echinospermum squarrosum, stick-seed
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum Shop
A general interior view of the Natural History Museums shop located in the Waterhouse Buidling adjacent to the Central Hall. It opened in January 2005

Dominican amber
Crazed flow plane in Dominican amber where the surface has dried out prior to the next flow. Image from the Amber the Natural Time Capsule

Lychnis chalcedonica, Maltese cross
Plate 26 from Ladies Flower Garden Annuals (1843) by Jane Wells Loudon. Also shows Coronata, Fulgens, Agrostemma Saponaria and Gypsophylla

Parus ater, coal tit, Parus major, great tit
Plate 25 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

Colourful illustration of two fish and an eel
Plate 40 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Ulmus procera, elm
Plate 11 from The Shape, Skeleton and Foliage of Thirty two species of Trees, 1786 by A. Cozens. Originally issued in 1771

Conilurus albipes, white-footed tree-rat
Native name Gnar-ruck. Detail from drawing 81, possibly by Thomas Watling (1762 -c. 1814), from the Thomas Watling Drawings Collection, 1788-c. 1797, held at the Natural History Museum

Portrait of an Aboriginal boy named Nanbree
Drawing 34 from the Watling Collection titled Portrait of Nanbree by Thomas Watling, 1792-1797

Landscape with aborigines, in tondo surrounded by tools and
Drawing 76 from the Watling Collection titled A Native climbing a tree near his Bark Hut and Fire by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

View across Sydney Cove from the hospital towards Government
Drawing LS 6 from the Watling Collection titled Taken from the West side of Sydney Cove behind the Hospital by Thomas Watling, 1792-1797

Variety of Gemstones
Left to righ top: Diamond, sapphire, ruby, emerald, aquamarine, topaz, amethyst, garnet. Bottom: Smokey quartz, citrine, tourmaline, peridot, zircon, spinel, fire opal, opal

Whaling boats
A photograph from A Cruise in the Arctic (1888) by Livingstone-Learmonth

Gazania splendens, gazania and Callicarpa purpurea, purple b
Plate 29 from The Illustrated Bouquet (1857-64) by Edward Geroge Henderson. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Asimina obovata, pawpaw apple
William Bartrams botanical specimens which he named Anona grandiflora, pawpaw apple. Bartram collected these during his expedition through the southern colonies for Dr. John Fothergill

Plate 37 from Mineralogie
Or natif en dendriet sur du quartz de Mr. Forster. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.6 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Senna italica, Italian senna
Illustration of Italian senna from the John Fleming Collection, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Anas crecca, common teal

Scuttle fly in amber

Ant in amber
An ant preserved in Baltic amber. This specimen dates from the Upper Eocene period, 56-34 million years ago

Recurvirostra novaehollandiae, red-necked avocet
Watercolour 336 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled American Avose, Antiquatich

Fraxinus excelsior, ash

Salt
A pillar of salt (Sodium Chloride) crystals

Hallucigenia sparsa, velvet worm
A velvet worm fossil from the Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia

Homo neanderthalensis, Neanderthal Woman (Tabun C1)
Model of Neanderthal woman (Homo neanderthalensis) based upon measurements taken from the fossil skeleton of a female Neanderthal discovered at Tabun, Israel, known as Tabun C1 who lived about 100

Geothlypis trichas, common yellowthroat
Plate 237, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 1 (1758). Annotated Little red-headed parakeet

Leafhopper in amber
Leafhoppers are small, leaping insects and seen here preserved in Dominican amber. Specimen dates from the Lower Miocene

Sulphur
Mass of crystals of sulphur from Girgenti, Sicily. Sulphur is an elemental mineral

Nymphalis antiopa, camberwell beauty
Plate 24 from Illustrations of British butterflies and their larvae, with the plants on which they feed, by Theo Johnson, 1892

Otis tarda, great bustard
Plate 73, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Natural History of Uncommon Birds, Vol. 2 (1747)

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