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  • Scholars attending a lecture in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Coloured lithograph printed by C. Hullmandel after N. Whittock.
  • The fossilised remains of a elk standing next to a human skeleton. Etching.
  • Heart shaped pendant.
  • Nine fossilised organic remains. Etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • The fossilised skeleton of an animal found in the Allom Rock near Whitby. Etching.
  • Geological observations on the volcanic islands, visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, together with some brief notices on the geology of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. Being the second part of the Geology of the voyage of the Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836 / [Charles Darwin].
  • Ancient bacteria and fungi (a-d):
  • Skeleton of the Megatherium next to a human skeleton. Etching by W. H. Lizars.
  • A lemur climbing up an block of stone holding a fruit in its left hand. Etching by S. Miger, ca. 1808 after N. Maréchal.
  • Glass with facets and twists.
  • A Brahmin praying to Vishnu, pouring water on the saligram. Lithograph.
  • 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.
  • David Copperfield as a boy enters the study of Dr Strong who is absorbed in lexicographic work; his young wife Annie is sitting on a stool at his feet. Etching by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne), 1849.
  • Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Photograph after C. Silvy.
  • John Woodward. Mezzotint by W. Humphrey.
  • Impression of a stone lily (encrinus) on black schistose slate and transverse sections of the lily's head. Line engraving by Milton after Donovan.
  • Antediluvian creatures, in a primaeval landscape. Mixed method engraving by A. M. Perrot.
  • Tuatara skeleton with eggs, micro-CT
  • Tuatara skeleton, micro-CT.
  • Fossilised human remains. Colour line block.
  • Microfossil shark tooth
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Dragon bone