Paul D Stewart / 1881 portrait of Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) English Naturalist and author of the Origin of Species. 1922 Hand coloured portrait aquatint of Darwin by G. Sidney Hunt after...

Tim Laman / Golden-fronted / Yellow-fronted Bowerbird (Amblyornis flavifrons) male at his bower at approx 1700 m. Endemic species to the Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation Internat...

David Kjaer / Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) males fighting at spring lek. Deeside, Scotland, April.

David Kjaer / Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) males at spring lek. Deeside, Scotland, April.

David Kjaer / Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) males displaying at spring lek. Deeside, Scotland, April.

David Kjaer / Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) males displaying at spring lek. Deeside, Scotland, April.

David Kjaer / Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) males fighting at spring lek. Deeside, Scotland, April.

David Kjaer / Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) males displaying at spring lek. Deeside, Scotland, April.

David Kjaer / Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) males fighting at spring lek. Deeside, Scotland, April.

David Kjaer / Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) males fighting at spring lek. Deeside, Scotland, April.

David Kjaer / Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) males fighting at spring lek. Deeside, Scotland, April.

David Kjaer / Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) males fighting at spring lek. Deeside, Scotland, April.

Alex Hyde / Selection of gastropods commonly found in rockpools, clockwise from top left: Periwinkle (Littorina compressa / nigrolineata), Dogwhelk (Nucella lapillus / Thaius lapillus), Common Flat Periwinkle (Li...

Rod Williams / Male Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) head in profile. Captive. Endemic to Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. UK, May.

Gary K. Smith / Selection of edible hedgerow fruits in baskets and trugs, Crab apples (Malus sp), Elderberries (Sambucus sp), Sloes (Prunus spinosus), Blackberries (Rubus fruticosus), Rosehips (Rosa sp) and Hawthorn...

Peter Cairns / Stuffed Grey wolf (Canis lupus) as part of shop trophy animal selection, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, September 2008

Tim Laman / Bower of the Golden-fronted / Yellow-fronted Bowerbird (Amblyornis flavifrons). Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation International Rapid Assessment Program expedition)

Juergen Freund / A ranger from the eco resort distributing a selection of books to the students of Yellu Village. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Selection of Ulus (traditional Inuit woman's knife), Quebec, Canada, 1998.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Selection of spices for sale on market stall, Belen Market. Iquitos. Loreto. Peru October 2009

Tim Laman / Array of rainforest fruits eaten by an orangutan during one day, during a high fruit availability period. Included are: Nephilium, Dipterocarpus, Baccaurea, and Artocarpus. Gunung Palung National Park...

Wild Wonders of Europe / della Ferrera / Photographer, Elio della Ferrera, with selection of waterproof boots /wellingtons and trousers Lonjsko Polje Nature Park, Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina border, June 2009

Stephen Dalton / A miscellaneous selection of flies including Muscids and Syrphids together with solitory wasps on Hogweed flower, UK

Gary K. Smith / Selection of freshly picked organic Sweet and Chilli Peppers, in rustic basket on country kitchen table, UK

Gary K. Smith / Selection of freshly picked organic Sweet and Chilli Peppers, in rustic basket on country kitchen table, UK

Gary K. Smith / Selection of freshly picked organic Sweet and Chilli Peppers, in rustic basket on country kitchen table, UK

John Cancalosi / White-tailed Deer (White Color Phase) (Odocoileus virginianus) - New York - Doe - A rare color phase resulting from double recessive white genes which occurs rarely naturally - These white individuals...

Jan Vermeer / Selection of bivalve shells

Tui De Roy / Southern Royal Albatross (Diomedea epomophora) gamming group courting as part of multi-year mate selection, Moubrey Ridge, Campbell Island, New Zealand

Tui De Roy / Southern Royal Albatross (Diomedea epomophora) gamming group courting as part of multi-year mate selection, Enderby Island, Auckland Group, New Zealand

Tui De Roy / Southern Royal Albatross (Diomedea epomophora) gamming group courting as part of multi-year mate selection, Moubrey Ridge, Campbell Island, New Zealand

Paul D Stewart / 'Swan Orchid' (Cyncnoches sp.) by Charles Darwin, 1862 first issue (idnentified by gilt orchid and ridged plum cloth) or 'On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilise...

Paul D Stewart / Great Argus Pheasant feather (Argusianus argus). Composite photograph of Argus secondary wing feather left and right Fig 56. Page 143 Vol II of Charles Darwin 'The Descent of Man and Selection in Rela...

Paul D Stewart / Two of Darwin's staunchest supporters in the field during a trip to the Rockies in 1877. Centre (seated) British botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, the director of Kew and one of Charles Darwin's close fr...

Paul D Stewart / Photograph of Charles Darwin taken by his son Leonard around 1874 when Darwin was in his mid sixties. It appeared in 'Charles Darwin. A Paper Contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeol...

Paul D Stewart / High resolution steel engraving portrait of Charles Darwin by C.Cook, printed by William Mackenzie, the Scottish printer and publisher in 1899. It appears in James Taylor's 'The Victorian Empire' and...

Paul D Stewart / Hand coloured photograph of Darwin in old age by Paul Stewart based on the 1879 photograph by Elliot and Fry. According to Gene Kritsky, who maintains an archive of Darwin photographs, the Elliot and...

Paul D Stewart / Photographic portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892). Woodburytype photograph by Lock & Whitfield published in 'Men or Mark' 1878. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologi...

Paul D Stewart / Hand coloured image of Charles Darwin by Paul Stewart derived from the photograph of Darwin taken by Elliot and Fry in 1881 shortly before his death.

Paul D Stewart / Illustrated portraits of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892) and Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895). Linley Sambourne's illustration for the new 1885 Macmillan edition of Kings...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892); 1883 portrait in his home study for The Graphic magazine, in the year he retired from the BMNH. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeon...

Paul D Stewart / 1881 portrait of Charles Robert Darwin ( 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882), English Naturalist and author of the Origin of Species. 1922 Hand coloured portrait aquatint of Darwin by G. Sidney Hunt aft...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892), 1889 mezzotint by H.J. Thaddeus with contemporary face but pose taken from an earlier 1852 photograph with dinosaur. Owen was a comparative...

Paul D Stewart / Detail of Great Argus Pheasant (Argusianus argus) zoo specimen, from SE Asia. Secondary wing feathers showing ocelli. Page 143 Vol II of Charles Darwin 'The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of four breeds of sheep (Ovis aries) from plates in Jardine's 'The Naturalist's Library' series, specifically 'The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals, Goats, Sheep, Wild and Domest...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Reverend Thomas Malthus, author of 'An Essay on the Principle of Population'. Mezzotint with later hand colouring painted and engraved by John Linnell, published 1834 by Dominic Colnaghi....

Paul D Stewart / First edition of Erasmus Darwin's 'Zoonomia', Part 1 'The Laws of Organic Life' with section revealing his remarkably prescient 'world without end' text on evolution. Erasmus Darwin was Charles Darwin...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) from a picture by Wright of Derby, reproduced with later hand colouring by his grandson, Charles Darwin in 'Life of Erasmus Darwin' 1879 (Ernst Krause co-author)...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of William Paley (July 1743 - 25 May 1805); stippled engraving published by Joshua Belcher 1810 as frontis to 'The Works of William Paley' Volume I, prepared and with later hand colouring aft...

Paul D Stewart / 'The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of Creation' by John Ray, the ninth edition of 1727. In this book Ray developed Natural Theology for an English audience. He argues that the proof of God is...

Paul D Stewart / Tableau to accompany Professor Agassiz opening sketch on 'The provinces of the animal world and their relationship to the types of man'. From Dr. Josiah C. Nott and George Gliddon's 'Types of Mankind'...

Paul D Stewart / Rajah Brooke's Birdwing male (Trogonoptera brookiana) shown with a specimen signature of Alfred Russel Wallace who named it for his friend Sir James Brooke. Wallace is remembered as the co-discoverer...

Paul D Stewart / Copy of the first edition 'On the Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin (1859) together with a Cabinet photograph of Darwin and some other Darwin related books. 'The Origin' was first published on Thur...

David Woodfall / Computer displays showing scans of wings of dead honeybees; comparisons enable scientists to establish what percentage native species of the original 'Welsh Black'. This information will allow selecti...

David Woodfall / Computer displays showing scans of wings of dead honeybees; comparisons enable scientists to establish what percentage native species of the original 'Welsh Black'. This information will allow selecti...

David Woodfall / Wings of Dead honeybees (Apis mellifera) used in a programme of colony morphometry. Wings are removed to measure veins to test what percentage native species of the original 'Welsh Black'. This infor...

David Woodfall / Dead honeybees (Apis mellifera) used in a programme of colony morphometry. Wings are partially removed to measure veins to test what percentage native species of the original 'Welsh Black'. This infor...

Eric Baccega / Selection of Bile products from Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) used in traditional Chinese medicine.