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  • The Natural History Museum, South Kensington: plan, above, and the street elevation, below. Photo-lithograph after M. B. Adams, 1879, after A. Waterhouse.
  • Darwin : big idea, big exhibition / Natural History Museum.
  • Darwin : big idea, big exhibition / Natural History Museum.
  • Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History Society.
  • Osmanthus delavayi Franch. Oleaceae Evergreen shrub. Distribution: China. Osmanthus is derived from the Greek for 'fragrant flower', delavayi from its discoverer, the French Missionary with the Missions Étrangères, and plant collector, Pierre Delavay (1834-1895). He sent 200,000 herbarium specimens containing 4000 species including 1,500 new species to Franchet at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. He sent seed of O. delavayi to France (1886), but only one germinated, and all the plants in cultivation until it was recollected 40 years later, arose from this plant (Bretschneider, 1896). The flowers are used to make a tea in China, but the berries (drupes) are not regarded as edible. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Beetle larva living on a spider-hunting wasp
  • Rapacious parasitoid (Dryinus bruneianus)
  • Fairy fly (Himopolynema), parasitoid wasp
  • Parasitoid wasp Wallaceaphytis kikiae, LM.
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • Museum Wormianum. Seu historia rerum rariorum, tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur / lao Worm.
  • The Museum of Practical Geology, Piccadilly: the interior. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1848, after B. Sly.
  • A panoramic display of big cats. Etching by J Wolf, ca 1850, tinted by H Adlard.
  • Jardin des Plantes, Paris: figures strolling the grounds alongside the glasshouses. Coloured lithograph by J. Jacottet.
  • Jardin des Plantes, Paris: as seen from across the river with the Pont d'Austerlitz and Prise de l'Arsenal. Coloured line engraving.
  • Museum Wormiani Historia 1655
  • A map of London, with a scale and north point: from Greenwich to Hammersmith east-west, and from Highgate to Stockwell north-south. Wood engraving by J. Dower after himself, 1862.
  • Fossilized skeleton of a plesiosaurus triatarsostinus. Lithograph by H. O'Neill, 1834.
  • Charles Darwin, 1809-1882.
  • Darwin : ornithology.
  • Darwin : botany.
  • A decade of progress in Eugenics. Scientific
  • Evidence as to man's place in nature / by Thomas Henry Huxley.
  • Evidence as to man's place in nature / by Thomas Henry Huxley.
  • Evidence as to man's place in nature / by Thomas Henry Huxley.
  • Evidence as to man's place in nature / by Thomas Henry Huxley.
  • Stones bearing the names of AIDS victims; advertising World AIDS Day 1992 in Berlin. Colour lithograph by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher AIDS-Stiftungen and Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe.
  • Silver King, a polar bear, being taken by ship away from his homeland. Colour lithograph.
  • Buyers collecting their purchases after a sale of insects. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.