Fossil Collection

Palaeontology, c1910. Creator: Unknown
Palaeontology, c1910. Palaeontology, the scientific study of life forms existing in the past though examination of fossils, plants, animals, and organisms

AI IMAGE - Tyrannosaurus rex in a museum, 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Tyrannosaurus rex in a museum, 2023

AI IMAGE - Fossilised remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex in a museum, 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Fossilised remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex in a museum, 2023

AI IMAGE - Fossilised remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex in a museum, 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Fossilised remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex in a museum, 2023

Specimens of Fossils recently found at Tingewick, Bucks. 1857. Creator: Unknown
Specimens of Fossils recently found at Tingewick, Bucks. 1857. Mr. Stowe, surgeon, of Buckingham, upon washing some hundreds of the fossils, ascertained them to be marine vegetation, which

Snail on Log, c.1770. Creators: Unknown, Seiyodo Tomiharu
Snail on Log, c.1770

Scene of the Geological Discoveries at Swanage, Dorset - from a photograph by F. Briggs, 1857. The excavations...are interesting as the scene of important geological discoveries [including] the jaws

Fossil Plesiosaurus recently found at Street, near Glastonbury, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Fossil Plesiosaurus recently found at Street, near Glastonbury, 1857. The lias quarries of Street...in Somersetshire, are celebrated for their fossil revelations of a remote period of the earth's

Fossil Iguanodons in the Bernissart Gallery of the Natural History Museum, Brussels, 1891. Creator: Hendrick Cassiers
'The Five Fossil Iguanodons in the Bernissart Gallery of the Natural History Museum at Brussels, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44

Fossil Foot of Dinornis, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Fossil Foot of Dinornis, 1850. Lecture by Gideon Algernon Mantell on the extinct gigantic birds of New Zealand. The most extraordinary relics obtained from this spot were the entire series of bones

Giant fossil ammonite
A 70cm diameter fossil ammonite embedded in limestone, from Portland Stone Quarries in Dorset

Snuff Bottle, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Creator: Unknown
Snuff Bottle, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

The Hunterian Museum, at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1845. Creator: Unknown
The Hunterian Museum, at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1845. Display of animal skeletons at The Hunterian in London. The first large object seen, on the right

The Geological Lecture Room, Oxford: Dr. William Buckland Lecturing on February 15, 1823, 1823-30

Fossil Wood in Sandstone, from a Moraine in Latitude 85°South, c1908, (1909)
Fossil Wood in Sandstone, from a Moraine in Latitude 85° South, c1908, (1909). Microscope sample from glacial debris in Antarctica

Reproduction of the Jaws of Banyoles, jaw of a pre-neanderthal found in 1887 by Pere Alsius in a quarry of the Pla de la Formiga (Porqueras)

Vitrifications, and other Volcanic productions, 1776
Vitrifications, and other Volcanic productions, Plate LII, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Productions of the Solfaterra, 1776
Productions of the Solfaterra, Plate LIII, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), published 1776 (hand coloured engraving)

Specimens of curious stones found by the Author on Mount Vesuvius, 1776
Specimens of curious stones found by the Author on Mount Vesuvius, Plate XXXXVIII, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Lava, Scoria, and Pumice stones and of Mount Versuvius, 1776
Lava, Scoria, and Pumice stones and of Mount Versuvius, Plate LI, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Marble and other mixed stones of Vesuvius polished, 1776
Marble and other mixed stones of Vesuvius polished, Plate L, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Specimen of the lavas of Vesuvius polished, 1776
Specimen of the lavas of Vesuvius polished, Plate XXXXIX, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Piece of marble composed of fragments of various sorts of marble found in the Fossa Grande, 1776
Piece of marble composed of fragments of various sorts of marble found in the Fossa Grande, Plate XXXXVII: from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies

Specimens of Tufa found in and around Herculaneum, 1776
Specimens of Tufa found in and around Herculaneum, Plate XXXXV, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Pompeii Museum, Pompeii, Italy, c1900s

The Queen in the Woodwardian Museum, c1850s, (1900). Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert visit a natural history museum in Cambridge

A Scientific Institution. During ye Lecture of an Eminent Savan, 1849. Artist: Richard Doyle
A Scientific Institution. During ye Lecture of an Eminent Savan, 1849. Richard Owen (1804-1892) British naturalist and anatomist

Richard Owen, British naturalist, c1856 (1891). After qualifying and practising as a surgeon, Owen (1804-1892) made major contributions in the fields of anatomy and paleontology

Richard Owen, English anatomist and paleontologist, 1872. After qualifying and practising as a surgeon, Owen (1804-1892) made major contributions in the fields of anatomy and paleontology

Comparison of the teeth of an iguanodon with those of a modern iguana, 1836
Comparison of fossil teeth and nasal horn of an iguanodon and the lower jaw and teeth of a modern iguana, 1836. From Geology and Mineralogy by William Buckland, one of the Bridgewater Treatises

Skeleton of Megatherium, extinct giant ground sloth, 1823. Megatherium was a prehistoric herbivore that lived in South America. This specimen was found in Paraguay in c1796

Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus) skeleton, 1830. An extinct genus of elephant from the Pleistocene epoch (2, 500, 000 to 10, 000 years ago) found in fossil deposits and in northern Europe as 30

Dream Lead Mine, near Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 1881. Sectional view showing the workings and the position in which a skeleton of a rhinoceros was discovered

Discovery of iguanodon fossils, Bernissart, Belgium, 1878 (c1880). 39 skeletons of the herbivorous dinosaur were discovered in a coal mine by Jules Creteur and his workmates

Fossil hunting in Cherry Hinton chalk pit, Cambridgeshire, 1822. One of the quarry workers is handing a find, an ammonite perhaps, to a gentleman collector

Fossil of a giant armadillo from South America, c1890
Fossil of a giant armadillo of the Pleistocene era, South America, [c1890]. The human figure alongside gives an idea of the animals size

A Sawrian, 1836. Artist: John Scott
A Sawrian, 1836. Cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a saurian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex, in 1820

Gideon Algernon Mantell, English geologist, 1852. In 1820 Mantell (1790-1852) discovered fossil parts of the Iguanodon and deduced from its teeth that it was a herbivore

Fossil of Archaeopteryx Lithographica. Late Jurassic, (20th century). HV Meyer. Odeter Jura (Malm) Eichstatt, Bavaria

Fossil. Crinoid Lily, Ordovician to Pleistocene period, c450 million-10, 000 BC

Fossil tooth of a mastodon, Mammut Amercanum

Fossil skull of a primitive horse
Fossil skull of Equus Plesippus Soshoneisis, a primitive horse

Primitive Horse Fossil, Propaleotherium Messelense

Labyrinthodontier fossil, of the amphibian Actenodon Latirostris, from the lower Permian

Fossil skeleton of a sabre-toothed tiger (Smilodon Neogaeus Lund) from Rio Araco, Argentina

Fossil forest in Dorset
Fossil forest in Lulworth, Dorset

Fossil of Cybium Speciosum, an early relative of the mackerl, from the British Museums collection

Fossil of Acantonemus Subaureus, an extinct fish, from the British Museums collection

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