Images Dated 18th April 2013 (page 44)

Passiflora sp. passion flower
Page 74 from Illustration of the Sexual System of Linneaus (1779) vol 2, by John Miller (1715-c. 1790)

Scuttle fly in amber
A scuttle fly preserved in Dominican amber. This specimen dates from the Lower Miocene

Certhidea olivacea, warbler-finch
Plate 44, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41). Finch from the Galapagos Islands

Hypericum perforatum, St. Johns wort
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Pyrrhosoma nymphula, large red damselfly
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Plate 3a from Histoire naturelle? (1789)
Plate 3a, Histoire Naturel Des Mineraux et de Pierres Precieuses, from Histoire naturelle: ou, Exposition des morceaux, les mieux choisis pour servir? (1789) by by Swebach Desfontaines

Anomalocaris model
Model of the swimming predator Anomalocaris based on fossils from the Cambrian Burgess Shale, 520 million years old

Sterna hirundo, common tern
A suspended skeleton of a common tern, (Sterna hirundo)

Bombycilla garrulus, Bohemian waxwing
Plate 34 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

Le deluge asiatique
Fig 312 from La Terre Avant Le Deluge (1863) by Par Louis Figuier

Collection of molluscs
Tableau 14 from Das Steinreich, systematisch entworfen by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch, (1762-4)

Leafhopper bug in Dominican amber
Leafhopper bug Hemiptera:Homoptera:Cicadellidae, trapped in Dominican amber with a dryinid wasp sac attached to its head. Specimen dates from the Lower Miocene

Iguanodon teeth
Four Iguanodon teeth from the Mantell collection alongside their reproduction in Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex 1827 by Gideon Mantell

Catharus minimus, grey-cheeked thrush

Fish design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Iris susiana, mourning iris
Illustration from Flore des serres XI page 23, held in the Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Passerculus sandwichensis, Savannah sparrow
Plate 35, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Red owl, warbling flycatcher, purple finch, brown lark
Page 82 from A. Wilsons American Ornithology, (1835). Annotated Red owl, Warbling flycatcher, Purple finch, Brown lark

Drawing 22 from the Watling Collection

Poaceae: The Grass tribe, grasses used by humans
Plate 175 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Peacocks, Turkeys and a Dodo
Illustration of Peacocks, Turkeys and a Dodo by Francis Willughby (1635-1672)

Equus sp. zebra
Plate 328 (314) rrom Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 3, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier

Chaetodon sp. butterflyfish
Plate 30 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826. Lower fish labelled Holocanthe

Greater Bird of Paradise
Illustration of a Greater Bird of Paradise by Eleazar Albin

Potorous tridactylus, long-nosed potoroo
Poto Roo. Drawing 59 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Alder fly in Baltic amber
Alder fly, Megaloptera: Sialoidea in Baltic amber. Specimen dates from the Upper Eocene

Bison bison, American bison
Plate 123 (414) Le Bison d Amerique from Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 1, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier

Demoiselle and crane designs
Drawing 27 Vol 2 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. (Two separate negatives)

Owl De Ulula
Illustration of Owl De Ulula by Konrad Gesner (1516-1565)

Pristiophorus cirratus, long nose sawshark
Watercolour 370 by the Port Jackson Painter, from the Watling Collection

Labiatae
Plate 112 from The Chief Natural Orders of Plants (1849). Illustrated and described by Elizabeth Twining (1805-1889)

Plate from The Gleanings of Natural History by George Edward
Plate 350, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated Black and blue titmouse

Colourful illustration of two fish
Plate 44 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Alligator mississippiensis, American alligator
Alligator of St Johns. Drawing 22 (Ewan 49) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram. Pen and ink. Size: 235 x 366

Iguana, delundung, racoon and gecko design
Four springers in entrance hall. Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876

Richard Lydekker (1849-1915)
Photographic portrait of Richard Lydekker, an English naturalist and geologist

Passerina cyanea, indigo bunting
Plate 45, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Plate 35 from Mineralogie
Mine de Cuivre vert Foieuse et en Mamelons. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.5 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Dianthus barbatus, sweet William
Drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1904. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Plate 169

Chalcid wasp in amber
Chalcid wasp, Chalcididae preserved in Baltic amber. Specimen originates from the Upper Eocene

Polygonia c-album, comma
From Illustrations of British Butterflies: with occasional figures of the larva, pupa, and food-plant (1878) by Theo Johnson

Lutjanus gibbus, humpback red snapper

Plate 6 from Mineralogie
Mine de Fer en grains qui offre quelgues facettes de Mr. Forster. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.5 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

A View of the coastline on the western side of Lord Howe Isl
Drawing LS 5 from the Watling Collection titled View of Lord Howe Island by a Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Calamites suckowi (Brongniart)
Pith cast of Calamites suckowi, an Articulate, Carboniferous plant. Upper Carboniferous; Gosforth, near Newcastle-on-Tyne. Range: Genus, Carboniferous, Species, Westphalian

Healing a child
Watercolour 45 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Bulldog cranium c. 1860
Specimen number 3551. Bulldog, Canis lupus familiaris

Pogona barbata, bearded dragon
Drawing 362 from the Watling Collection titled Jew Lizard, Bid de wang by Thomas Watling, 1792-1797

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