Saturday, November 2, 2013

Natural History Museum,London (Wallace 100 )


   



Extract of a letter from Wallace to Bates, written in 1847.




1847



A plan to study



Wallace writes to Bates about looking for evidence of evolution:


'I shd [should] like to take some one family, to study thoroughly - principally with a view to 


the theory of the origin of species. By that means I am strongly of [the] opinion that some 


definite results might be arrived at.'









Specimen drawer of insects collected by Alfred Russel Wallace



Insects from Alfred Russel Wallace’s personal collection, caught in Southeast Asia 



between 1854 and 1862, now cared for by the Natural History Museum.  



















Natural History Museum, London (The Blue Zone )


The life-size model of a blue whale.



Blue Whale



Hippopotamus with it's huge mouth wide open.



Unicorn

Some of the heaviest elephant tusks ever found



Woolly Mammoth

Woolly mammoth

Equids



Zebras,Asses and Horses

Skeleton of a Steller’s sea cow, a cold-water relative of manatees and dugongs.



Stellers Sea Cow

Compare the size of a blue whale and human brain



Brain of Blue whale and human

Wreath with Peacock Feathers - Art with Birds


Peacock feather wreath

Skeleton of Loris, Grant Museum,London


The skeleton of a Loris is displayed on a tree branch

Bones of Dodo, Grant Museum,London


The bones of a dodo

Grant Museum of Zoology, London


Skeletons of Chimpanzee and Gibbon



A chimpanzee (L) and a gibbon skeleton are displayed at The Grant Museum of Zoology





Bisect Chimpanzee Head







A preserved bisected chimpanzee head

Physiology of Digestion(Telugu Material)













































































































































Sunday, October 27, 2013