Paul D Stewart / Two species of weevil showing the size disparity even in single families of insect. The larger is the Bamboo weevil of East Asia Cyrtotrachelus dux, the smaller is identified (perhaps misidentified) o...

Paul D Stewart / Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) from the Rev. Francis Orpen Morris' 'A History of British Birds' by the printer Benjamin Fawcett circa 1853. Morris was instrumental in founding the Royal Society for th...

Jouan & Rius / Aerial view of Limestone formations in the Pinnacles desert, Nambung National Park, Western Australia. August 2009

Ingo Arndt / Grytviken Museum, South Georgia, February 2011

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Pelt of a Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia), National Collections Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2015.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Scottish Wildcat Action project staff learning about Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia) skulls at National Collections Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2015.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Diagram of Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia) pelage markings, part of a learning session for staff from the Scottish Wildcat Action project, National Collections Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland,...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Scottish Wildcat Action project staff learning about Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia) pelage markings through examining pelts at National Collections Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Scottish Wildcat Action project staff learning about Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia) pelage markings through examining pelts at National Collections Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Scottish Wildcat Action project staff learning about Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia) pelage markings through examining pelts at National Collections Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Scottish Wildcat Action project staff learning about Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia) pelage markings through examining pelts at National Collections Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Scottish Wildcat Action project staff learning about Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia) pelage markings through examining pelts at National Collections Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 2...

Paul D Stewart / European butterflies on a collector's setting board. Collecting butterflies was a common hobby in Britain and Europe from the 18th to 20th century, as well as widespread for collections in museums.

Paul D Stewart / A collector's case of British butterflies. There are some 59 breeding butterflies in the UK and four former breeders, as well as rare migrants like the monarch all the way from America, represented he...

Paul D Stewart / A collector's case of British butterflies with representatives of the major native groups (except skippers) visible. There are some 59 breeding butterflies in the UK and four former breeders.

Onne van der Wal / Stacks of Navy hats. Valparaiso, Chile 2008.

Tim Laman / Moths on a light trap for study by entomologists. Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation International Rapid Assessment Program expedition)

Klaus Echle / Collected seeds in glass jars from pine and other trees stored in a cellar. Black Forest, Germany, July.

Klaus Echle / Collected seeds in glass jars from pine and other trees. Black Forest, Germany, July.

Jouan & Rius / Sun bleached seashells on Shell beach, Coral coast, Westen Australia. August 2009

Jouan & Rius / Sun bleached seashells on Shell beach, Coral coast, Westen Australia . August 2009

Alan Watson / Flatid leafhoppers (Phromnia rosea) on a small tree, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar

Toby Roxburgh / Remains of the hull of "New Dispatch", a two masted schooner built in Speyside in 1888, on the banks of the River Severn, Purton, England, UK, 2009. The vessel was deliberately beached in 1961 (one of...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of The British Museum in Montagu House, Great Russel (sic) Street. Engraved by William Henshall from a study by T.H. Shepherd. From Shepherd's series 'London and its Environs in the Ninet...

Paul D Stewart / Fine steel engraving with later hand colouring by l. Lewitt and Radclyffe of the 'British Museum - Zoological Gallery' in 'London Interiors' published by Joseph Mead of London (1841). The engraving sh...

Paul D Stewart / Sir Joseph Banks, botanist and naturalist. (13th February 1743 - 19th June 1820). Engraving by C.E. Wagstaff with later colouring, after the painting of Banks as President of the Royal Society by Phil...

Paul Harcourt Davies / Common polypody (Polypodium vulgare) underside of frond to show sori, capsules that are collections of sporangia that contain the spores, Umbria, Italy. December.