Images Dated 18th April 2013

Cypripedium reginae, ladys slipper orchid. Also known as pi

Although the current name of this orchid is Cypripedium reginae, the name on the original plate reads Cypripedium spectabile, which may have been the name accepted at the time. Watercolour by Franz Andreas Bauer ca.1810-1840. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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Neofelis nebulosa diardi, clouded leopard

Felis diardi. Plate from A Monograph of the Felidae, or Family of the Cats, 1833, by Daniel Giraud Elliot. One of 43 hand-coloured lithographs by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929)

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Sceloporus asper, spiny lizard

Illustration of a spiny lizard from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1897). This illustration is on display in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

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