Artiodactyl Collection (#5)

Stag Beetle Collection of Hughes Bomans
A sample from some 32, 000 stag beetles collected by French entomologist Hughes Bomans

Bandages from a calf mummy

British Museum (Natural History) New Fossil Mammal Gallery P
A poster advertising the New Fossil Mammal Gallery Pleistocene Section which opened in 1970. One of the many fossils displayed in the gallery was a Giant Irish Elk, which is depicted in this poster

Cervus unicolor brookei
Photograph of BM(NH) 1.3.13.1 Cervus unicolor brookei, Sarawak

Sus scrofa, European wild boar
European wild boar piglets. Stuffed specimens on display in Gallery 5 at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Megaloceros, Irish elk
Also known as Irish elk, Megaloceros lived across Europe and western Asia until it became extinct about 8, 000 years ago

Buenos Ayres Bullock-wagons
Illustration (p.150) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Exhibition of a giraffe to the public
A printed poster advertising the last week of the magnificent living Giraffe or camelopardalis with its Nubian attendant

Bubalus bubalis, Indian water buffalo
These are the largest Indian water buffalo horns ever recorded, each almost 2 metres long

Chiasognathus grantii Stephens, stag beetle
This member of the Lucanidae family was written about by Charles Darwin in chapter 10 of his book The Descent of Man

Exhibition of a giraffe to the public, Manchester
A printed poster advertising the exhibition of a giraffe from the Surrey Zoological Gardens, displayed in Piccadilly, Manchester

Madoqua saltiana, Salts dik-dik
On display in the Natural History Museums whale and mammal gallery (number 24). Its common name, dik-dik (or dikdik) is thought to have dervied from the sound it makes whilst running

Hoxnian anters, bones & hand axe from Swanscombe
Part of a deer antler, fragment of elephant bone and flint hand axe all discovered at Swanscombe, Kent, south of the River Thames

Cervus unicolor brookei, sambar deer
Photograph of BM(NH) 1.3.13.1 Cervus unicolor brookei, Sarawak

Boys sketching giraffes, 1949. The Natural History Museum
For the really keen young naturalist aged between 10 and 15, a Junior Naturalists Club was established. Entry was gained by producing a piece of fieldwork to prove ones dedication to the study of

Simias sp. pig-tailed monkey from Sumatra
Illustration from Gleanings of Natural History (1758-74) by George Edwards (1694-1773)

Mazama canepestris guaszuti design
Drawing 62 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s

Bison bison, American bison
Plate 123 (414) Le Bison d Amerique from Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 1, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier

Cow and calf design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Moschus chrysogaster, alpine musk deer
Plate 191 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Sonchus palustris, marsh sow-thistle
One of the 36 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the North Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

Cervidae (family), deer
Balgowan (deer park in Perthshire, Scotland). Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Capreolus capreolus, western roe deer
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Sus sp. hog, Siamese breed
Plate 2 from The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands Vol. 2, 1842, by David Low (1786-1859)

Sus scrofa, wild boar
Plate 1 from The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands Vol. 2, 1842, by David Low (1786-1859). Entitled Wild Boar and Sow

Cervus xanthopygus, deer
Plate 21 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Antilope caudata, blackbuck
Plate 23 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Lama glama, llama
Llama. Llama Glama, July 23 1884. Hand coloured lithograph of a drawing by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins from Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall; Hoofed Quadrupeds, 1850

Dama dama, fallow deer
Plate 38 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Antilope cinerea, Chinese goral
Plate 70 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Antilope edwardsii, goral
Plate 72 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Cervulus lacrymans
Plate 63 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Ovis nahoor
Plate 68 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Moschus moschiferus, Siberian musk deer
Plate 19 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Hexaprotodon liberiensis, hippopotamus
Plate 1 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Elaphodus cephalophus, tufted deer
Plate 65 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Giant deer, February 1893. The Natural History Museum, Lond
Photographed by J.D. Pemberton in February 1893, this Megalocerus giganteus skeleton represents an extinct race of giant deer (not elk) that had a distribution throughout Europe

Bovidae (family), bovid
Plate 74 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Detail of manuscript text
Relating to Plate 103 from the Loten Collection, 1754-57, a painting depicting Tragulus javanicus, lesser mouse-deer, by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere (1722-c. 1781). Image under record 6372

Blade of grass from a cow
Scanning electron microscope image of a blade of grass from a cows stomach (x 175 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Camelus bactrianus, bactrian camel
Plate 216 (326) Le Chameau. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 2, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier

Folio 16 from A Collection of Flowers by John Edwards
Folio 16 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Hemitragus jemlahicus, tahr

Antler baton (Goughs Cave)
Reindeer antler baton excavated from Goughs Cave, Cheddar, Somerset dated at around 14, 000 to 12, 000 years old, (Creswellian)

Budorcas taxicolor, takin
Plate 145a from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Buffalo cart with runners, Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Tetracerus quadricornis, four-horned antelope jaw
Tetracerus quadricornis, four-horned antelope. Jaw specimen taken from the collection at the Natural History Museum. Specimen ref is 56.9.22.11

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