Zoology Collection (page 4)

Purple Grakle or Common Crow Blackbird, 1845
Purple Grakle or Common Crow Blackbird, Quiscalus Versicolor. From The Birds of America by John J. Audubon. Pub. 1827-1838 (colour lithograph)

The Zoological Gallery, British Museum, Holborn, London, c1850. Artist: William Radclyffe
The Zoological Gallery, British Museum, Holborn, Camden, London, c1850; showing visitors looking at displays

Z the Zealous Zoologist, 1903. Artist: John Hassall
Z the Zealous Zoologist, 1903. An initial letter Z from a child alphabet. From An A.B.C. of Everyday People, by G. E. Farrow. [Dean & Son Limited, London, 1903]

Linaeus in Lapland Dress, c1918. Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) made an expedition to Lapland, the northernmost region in Sweden, in 1732. From Story-Lives of Great Scientists, by F. J. Rowbotham

Cuvier, 19th century. Artist: J Thomson
Cuvier, 19th century. Baron Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier (1769-1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist

Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, (1812). Artist: J Chapman
Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, (1812). Linnaeus (Carl von Linne) (1707-1778) founded the modern system of plant and animal nomenclature

Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist, 1887. Gessner (1516-1565) wrote Historiae Animalium, regarded as the beginning of modern zoology, published in 1555-1558

The Meeting of the (Royal) Zoological Society, Hanover Square, London, 1885. Artist: Harry Furniss
The Meeting of the Zoological Society, Hanover Square, London, 1885. The naturalist Richard Owen (1804-1892) is in the left foreground, next to Mr Punch, holding an Apteryx bursting from its egg

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

Thomas Pennant, 18th century British zoologist, writer and traveller, 1823. One of the foremost zoologists of his time, Pennant (1726-1798) published his British Zoology in 1766

Edwin Ray Lankester, British zoologist, 1905. Artist: Spy
Edwin Ray Lankester, British zoologist, 1905. Lankester (1847-1929) established clear morphological distinctions in different orders of invertebrates, demonstrating that they had different origins

Ulysses Aldrovandi, 16th century Italian naturalist, 18th century
Ulysses Aldrovandi, 16th century Italian naturalist, [18th century]. Aldrovandi (1522-1605) published illustrated books on fishes, birds and insects

Sir Richard Owen, English zoologist, c1860. Artist: DJ Pound
Sir Richard Owen, English zoologist, c1860. Owen studied medicine at Edinburgh and at St Bartholomews and became curator in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons where he produced a fine series

Orang Utang and Gibbon, 1822

Alexandre Agassiz, Swiss-born American oceanographer, marine zoologist and mining engineer, 1883. Alexandre Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (1835-1910)

Richard Owen, British zoologist, 1873. Artist: Spy
Richard Owen, British zoologist, 1873. After qualifying and practising as a surgeon, Owen (1804-1892) made major contributions in the fields of anatomy and paleontology

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist and evolutionist
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) German zoologist and evolutionist. Recapitulation theory Ontology recapitulates phylogeny. Wood engraving

Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and evolutionist, 1899
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) German zoologist and evolutionist. Recapitulation theory Ontology recapitulates phylogeny, 1899

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