Placental Mammal Collection (#5)

Funambulus sp. ; Palm squirrels carrying young
Watercolour by Olivia Tonge; c. 1912 Date: circa 1912

Hemitragus jemlahicus, Himalayan tahr
Illustration from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection; c. 1850s Date: circa 1850

Rhinoceros unicornis, Indian Rhinoceros
Illustration from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection, c.1850 Date: circa 1850

Hystrix cristata; Crested Porcupine
Illustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection; 1823 Date: 1823

Dasypus novemcinctus, Nine-banded armadillo
Hand coloured lithograph by John James Audubon from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 1848. Date: 1848

Gazelles in Natural History Museum
Photograph of Gazelles in the Lower Mammal Gallery. 5th July 1892 Archive ref: PH/173/3 Date: 1892

Thomsons Gazelles in Natural History Museum
Photograph of Thomsons Gazelles in the Lower Mammal Gallery. 5th July 1892. Archive ref: PH/173/4 Date: 1892

Osteological Gallery. 5th July 1892
Photograph of the Osteological Gallery. 5th July 1892. Archive ref: PH/173/2 Date: 1892

The Shadow Dance
Plate 17 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated with designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874. Date: 1874

A Happy Family
Plate 13 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated with designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874. Date: 1874

Rival Monarchs
Plate 15 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated with designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874. Date: 1874

Maternal Courage
Plate 14 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated with designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874. Date: 1874

Flying fox and myotis species
Illustration from the Brian Houghton Hodgson Collection; c. 1850s Date: circa 1850

Canis sp. Eskimo Dog called Arctic King
Articulated skeleton of an Canis sp. Eskimo Dog called Arctic King

The Avalanche
Plate 20 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated withdesigns by Joseph Wolf, London 1874. Date: 1874

North America, USA, Florida, Port Charlotte. Nine-banded Armadillo
USA, Florida, Port Charlotte. Nine-banded Armadillo

Bornean orangutan C016 / 6223
Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). This specimen was collected by Alfred Russell Wallace and is held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

European wolf C016 / 6102
European wolf (Canis lupus)

Bornean orangutan C016 / 6155
Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). This specimen was collected by Alfred Russell Wallace and is held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

The Natural History Museum, Tring, UK C016 / 6116
Gallery of stuffed animals at the Natural History Museum at Tring, UK

Cattle jawbone C016 / 5906
Jaw bone and teeth from a Chillingham cattle (Bos taurus). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Cattle jawbone C016 / 5914
Jaw bone and teeth from a Chillingham cattle (Bos taurus). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Bornean orangutan C016 / 6111
Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Myotragus antelope skull C016 / 6121
Myotragus sp. skull. This antelope lived around 6000 years ago. Its remains have been found in the Balearic islands

Piltdown Stegodon tooth C016 / 5975
Piltdown Stegodon tooth (item E.596). Part of a molar tooth of the extinct mammal Stegodon. The amateur geologist Charles Dawson (1864-1916) claimed to have found this tooth

Man carrying stuffed mammals C016 / 5930
Man carrying stuffed mammals for the Game Animals of the Empire exhibition, 1at the Natural History Museum, London, UK. The exhibition opened in the newly built Whale Hall in 1932

Bblack-lipped pika, artwork C016 / 5902
Black-lipped pika (Ochotona curzoniae). Plate 119a from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal (1818-1858), by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Myotragus antelope skeleton C016 / 6122
Myotragus sp. skeleton. This antelope lived around 6000 years ago. Its remains have been found in the Balearic islands

Cape lion specimen C016 / 6152
Cape lion (Panthera leo melanochaitus). This mounted skin was sent to the Natural History Museum, London, UK, in 1954. It was shot near South Africas Orange River in about 1830

Toxodon platensis skull C016 / 6119
Toxodon platensis skull

Lemur skulls C016 / 6150
Lemur skulls. Two skulls showing the diversity of lemurs on Madagascar

Fossil bat specimen C016 / 5980
Fossil bat (Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon). Fossil skeleton of an extinct bat from the Middle Eocene, found in Lutetian oil shale from Messel, near Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Woolly rhinoceros horn fossil C016 / 6075
Fossil horn specimen from the extinct woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis)

Alpine musk deer, artwork C016 / 5899
Alpine musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster). Plate 191 from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal (1818-1858), by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Okapi hide C016 / 6118
Strips of hide from an okapi (Okapia johnstoni) skin obtained in 1900 by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927), High Commissioner of Uganda. Held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Cattle jawbone C016 / 5910
Jaw bone and teeth from a Chillingham cattle (Bos taurus). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Blue whale model C016 / 6225
Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) model on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Indian water buffalo horns C016 / 6154
Indian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) horns. These are the largest Indian water buffalo horns ever recorded, each being almost 2 metres long. Held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Giraffes, Natural History Museum, London C016 / 5931
Giraffe specimens at the top of a staircase, at the Natural History Museum, London, UK, in October 1903. This trio formed part of the new mammal display in along the first floor East

Comoro black flying fox skulls C016 / 6068
Comoro black flying fox (Pteropus livingstonii) skulls seen from above and left side

Sperm whale excavation C016 / 5929
Sperm whale excavation, Excavation of a sperm whale skull and skeleton in Bridlington, Humberside, UK, in 1938

Woolly rhinoceros horn fossil C016 / 6076
Fossil horn specimen from the extinct woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis)

Cattle jawbone C016 / 5909
Jaw bone and teeth from a Chillingham cattle (Bos taurus). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Piltdown Stegodon tooth C016 / 5973
Piltdown Stegodon tooth (item E.620). Part of a molar tooth of the extinct mammal Stegodon. The amateur geologist Charles Dawson (1864-1916) claimed to have found this tooth

Cattle jawbone C016 / 5912
Jaw bone and teeth from a Chillingham cattle (Bos taurus). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Cattle jawbone C016 / 5905
Jaw bone and teeth from a Chillingham cattle (Bos taurus). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

Northern bottlenose whale skeleton C016 / 6156
Skeleton of the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), also known as the Thames Whale, which became stranded in the River Thames in January 2006

Cattle jawbone C016 / 5907
Jaw bone and teeth from a Chillingham cattle (Bos taurus). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London, UK

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