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ALT A bound manuscript volume, open showing hand drawn butterflies on the left and handwritten notes on the right. Behind it, standing upright is a modern Museum publication titled 'Nature's Explorers'.
ALT A screen grab of a page from the website titled 'Digitised collections from the Library and Archives.
ALT Original hand drawn artwork depicting the head, front legs and unfurled long tongue of a pangolin.
ALT A staff member operating a piece of digitisation equipment which is cradling an open bound volume of botanical artwork , with a camera above.
ALT An open book with pasted newspaper clippings and a mounted sketch. A woman sits in front, taking notes.
ALT A sign titled 'Nature's Explorers' standing behind an open book. The book has several illustrations of blue butterflies on the right, and handwritten notes on right.
ALT A book, open to an illustration of an identified mammal, sitting on a book cradle to be digitised. A man stands in the background, ready to turn the page.
ALT Shelves of modern collection books.
ALT drawing of the diatom Actinodiscus Ingens source: R ATTRAY J. 1890a. A revision of the genus Actinocyclus Ehrb. Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club 2(4): 137–212.
ALT a scavenging amphipod. Photographs of Valettietta synchlys: top, holotype, immature, NHMUK 2024.63, preserved specimen; bottom, paratype, immature, NHMUK 2024.75, fresh specimen showing ocular patch. Scale bar = 2mm. From the paper: Eva C D Stewart, Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras, Johanna N J Weston, Adrian G Glover, Tammy Horton, Biogeography and phylogeny of the scavenging amphipod genus Valettietta (Amphipoda: Alicelloidea), with descriptions of two new species from the abyssal Pacific Ocean, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 201, Issue 4, August 2024, zlae102, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae102 CC BY 4.0
ALT Teal leather-look cover of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours with a range of small differently coloured squares. Additional text reads "Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts, By P. Syme. The book Charles Darwin used to describe colours in nature on his voyage on the HMS Beagle"
ALT A colour chart of different shades of red naming the different shades and an example of an animal, vegetable and mineral of that shade.
ALT A colour chart of different shades of green naming the different shades and an example of an animal, vegetable and mineral of that shade.
ALT A colour chart of different shades of blue naming the different shades and an example of an animal, vegetable and mineral of that shade.
ALT Advert showing a painting of a penguin overlaid with 'Register now!'. On the right a text box reads: Animal History Group Conference. Movers and Shapers. 27-28 June 2024. Online.
ALT A photograph of a new book, A Little Gay Natural History. It is being held up against the glass of one of the wonder bays in Hintze hall in the Natural History Museum. Butterflies of different species are scattered in the background. On the front cover, there is a butterfly with a rainbow pattern on its wings.
ALT An illustration of a Narwhal and a ‘white whale’, likely a beluga whale, floating on a grey background. They are parallel to each other, facing different directions. One is light grey or white in colour and tuskless and the other is a darker grey dappled with spots and one tusk.
ALT Bromley House Library
