Images Dated 18th April 2013 (page 47)

Diaethura anna, Annas eighty-eight
A mounted specimen of the underside of Annas eighty-eight butterfly from Mexico

Millipede in amber
A Millipede, Myriapoda: Diplopoda preserved in Dominican amber. Specimen dates from the Lower Miocene about 20 million years old

Aquila audax, wedge-tailed eagle
Watercolour 95 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Bold Vulture, Boo-ro-ma-rang

Watercolour 50 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 50 by by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Clupea finta, twaite shad
Page 68 by W Houghton from his British Freshwater Fishes, 1879

Zenaida macroura, mourning dove
Plate 24, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Australopithecus africanus
Model head of an adult female Australopithecus africanus reconstructed from remains found at Sterkfontein, South Africa. Probably lived about 2.5 million years ago

Pardalotus punctatus, spotted pardalote
Watercolour 287 by Thomas Watling from the Watling Collection titled New Holland Manakins

Lilium sp. lily
Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Colourful illustration of four fish
Folio 10 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Paedocypris progenetica (female)
This is one of the smallest known vertebrate, reaching only 7.9mm in length, discovered on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. Photographed by Dr. Ralf Britz

Burgessia bella, fossil arthropod
An arthropod fossil which lived on the sea floor, dating from the Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia

Colourful illustration of seven fish
Folio 30 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Homo neanderthalensis (calpicus) cranium (Gibraltar 1)

Colias croceus, clouded yellow
Plate 3 from Illustrations of British butterflies and their larvae, with the plants on which they feed, by Theo Johnson, 1892

Piltdown Man (Model based on Piltdown 1 & 2)
Frontal view of a sculpted head reconstruction by Maurice Wilson created for the Exhibition of Britain in 1950. It is based upon the cranium and mandible fossils found at Piltdown in 1913

Colourful illustration of three fish and two crustaceans
Folio 23 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Instruments for measuring size
Plate 55 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Instruments pour la Taille et la Greffe

Eremophila alpestris, horned lark
Plate 32, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Hydrangea sp. hydrangea
Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Platycercus eximius, eastern rosella
Watercolour 37 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Lebanese amber
A piece of Lebanese amber from the Lower Cretaceous about 120 million years ago

Cow and calf 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

Flycatcher, elliottia, purple malve and pipit
Drawin 19 from the Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 1756-1788 by William Bartram. Original artwork held in the Natural History Museum, London

Columba leucocephala, white-crowned pigeon
Plate 25, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Aeschna pilosa, dragonfiles
Plate 21, an illustration of two dragonflies from Libellulinae Europaeae 1840 by Toussaint de Charpentier

Colourful illustration of five fish
Plate 15 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Ramphastos dicolorus, red-breasted toucan

Panther 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

Plate 45 from Mineralogie
Mine de Cuivre vitreuse rouge Cristallisee mellee de Vuivre natif et fleurs de Cuivre soieuse vertes. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.5 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Saxicola rubetra, whinchat, Saxicola torquata, common stonec
Plate 7 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

Strombus luhuanus, red-mouthed stromb
Watercolour 392 by Thomas Watling, entitled Gung-e-ra-nere, from the Watling Collection

Leaves and plant
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

Mandrillus leucophaeus, drill
Plate 139 (58) Le Drill Vieux. 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

Ichneumon wasp in amber
Ichneumon wasp preserved in Baltic amber. This specimen with exquisitely preserved wings dates from the Upper Eocene period

Vanessa atlanta, red admiral
From Illustrations of British Butterflies: with occasional figures of the larva, pupa, and food-plant (1878) by Theo Johnson

Portrait of an Aboriginal man carrying a basket
Drawing 68 from the Watling Collection titled A Native carrying a water basket of bark by Port Jackson Painter, c. 1791

Passer montanus, tree sparrow, Pyrrhula pyrrhula, Eurasian b
Plate 40 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

Alethopteris serli (Brongniart), Pteridosperm
Part of a frond of Alethopteris serli, a Pterisosperm, a plant from the Upper Carboniferous, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Range: Genus, Carboniferous; species, Westphalian

Godetia vinosa
Plate 8 from Ladies Flower Garden Annuals (1843) by Jane Wells Loudon. Also shows Anothera and Godetia varieties

Plate 39 from Mineralogie
Tres rare Moceau de vitriol de Cuivre Fosile a cause de sa facle decompossion. From Recuille complet de Mineralogie? vol.5 (1790) by F.L. Swebach Desfontaines

Gonepteryx rhamni, brimstone
Plate 2 from Illustrations of British butterflies and their larvae, with the plants on which they feed, by Theo Johnson, 1892

Stylopid in amber
Stylopid parasite (Strepsiptera sp.) preserved in Dominican amber. This specimen dates from the Lower Miocene

Springtail in amber
Springtail, Collembola: Entomobryidae trapped in Dominican amber. The insects spring has been preserved in a folded position under its body

Colourful illustration of six fish
Folio 25 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Banksia spinulosa, hairpin banksia
Drawing 415 from the Watling Collection by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797. Illustration entitled Wallangre

Carduelis tristis, American goldfinch
Plate 274, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 2 (1760)

Black fly in Baltic amber
Black fly preserved in Baltic amber. This fly belongs to subgenus Morops and dates from the Upper Eocene about 35 million years old

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