Zoology Museum and 100 Objects

100 Years of the Zoology Museum

 

 

 

 

 

Image of hundreds of whale lice on a piece of whale skin in spirit

 

Penguin egg from Patagonia

 

Skull of a young female Thylacine from Tasmania

 

Ormer shells from Cannes, France

 

Yellow perch skeleton

 

Large scale plaster model of an extinct foraminiferan

 

Articulated plaster model of bird beak showing flexible hinge

 

Plaster of Paris model of a Pterosaur fossil

 

Burrows of an unknown species of trapdoor spider from Queensland, Australia

 

Bamboo coral in spirit

 

Pinned White-faced darter dragonfly from Rannoch

 

Skeleton of False killer whale

Lungfish eggs

 

Developmental series of the Japanese sleeper ray

 

Tail tips from African elephants

 

Brandling worm showing unusual bifurcation

 

Horns and skull of a Roan antelope from Zambia

 

Pinned insects: two hoverflies and a crane fly

 

Mole skins from around Scotland

 

Syntypes of the sand hopper

 

Wax and paper model of the sting of a wasp

 

Smooth puffer collected off the coast of West Africa

Wax models showing the colour varieties of the black slug

 

Spectral Tarsier in spirit

 

Olm in spirit

Fresh-water sponges from the River Cam, Cambridge and subjects of a publication by Dr. Margaret Jepps on aspects of sponge biology

 

Swordfish bill mounted as a trophy

 

A dried, inflated Black-blotched porcupinefish

 

Brachiopods or lamp shells attached to rock

 

Chiton in ethanol

 

Unidentified soft corals, possibly Eunicella sp. and Leptogorgia sp.

Microscope mount of Bow-legged fir aphid

Dissection of Common skate showing the afferent branchial arteries and venous system

 

Nematode worm in spirit

Pinned European rhinoceros beetle

 

Larvae and young marbled lungfish

 

Clubionidae or sac spiders

 

Digenean fluke from Loch Lomond

 

Whale foetus in spirit

 

Dog tapeworm hydatid cysts in human liver

 

Painting of dog whelks

 

Paratype of the beetle Cavognatha pullivora Crowson, 1964

 

Skull of a South American coati

 

Several species of Hemipteran bugs from Scotland

 

Drawer of swallowtail butterflies from the family Papilionidae

 

Three female brown sand boas in spirit

 

Sap beetles

 

Mount of a cattle egret

 

European common cuttlefish in spirit

 

Axolotl in spirit

 

Solifuge or sun spider in spirit

 

Disarticulated, incomplete skeleton of Dunlin

 

Prints of photos of skulls of chacma baboons

 

Mount of a male chaffinch on a cork log

 

Dried Hydrozoa and Bryozoa

 

Disarticulated Soay sheep skeleton

 

Jaws of Black-tip reef shark

 

Case of mounted birds from Australia, includes two magpie-larks, a grey butcherbird and a buff-banded rail

 

Blue land crab in spirit

 

Disarticulated skeleton of Colobus monkey

 

Skin of a red-billed quelea

 

White-lipped frog

 

The humerus bone from the wing of a pelican

 

Dried Pipistrelle bat

 

Dried shark fin from an unknown species

 

Brittle star in spirit

 

Pharyngeal teeth and plate from common roach

 

Demonstration box Snails of the Sudan showing vectors and intermediate hosts of Schistosoma infection

 

Watercolour illustration by Margaret Rankin Wilson of a pleasing fungus beetle

 

Krill in spirit

 

Leatherback turtle hatchlings

 

Skull of a sloth bear

 

American Painted Lady pinned butterfly

 

Spiders collected as part of a faunal survey

 

Nest of an Antillean crested hummingbird

 

Teaching chart showing the internal anatomy of a sea cucumber

 

Pitfall trap samples from ecological survey of machair habitat

 

Boulder brain coral

 

Parasitic horse-hair worm with host, an orange-head cockroach

 

Nest of the Garden Warbler

 

Common toad in spirit

 

Otocyst collection, fine dissections of animal inner ear bones

 

Shrimp, frog and fish

 

Microscope slide of the protozoan Orbulina universa

 

Complete articulated skeleton of the red-banded snake

 

Large teaching chart showing lifecycle of malaria parasite Plasmodium sp.

 

Section of gill arch from giant devil fish

 

American signal crayfish in spirit

 

Lamp shell

 

Unidentified species of Anglerfish

 

Pencil drawing of Red-tailed monkey

 

Polyester resin cast of burrow of Norway lobster

 

Shell of a black-lip pearl oyster

 

Shell of a chambered nautilus

 

Collection of beetles from the Isle of Raasay plus maps, field notebooks and publication

 

Study skin of a Sandwich Tern

 

Rostrum of a smalltooth sawfish

 

Torrent frog

 

Strip of baleen from Bowhead whale

 

Microscope slide of thrips

 

Shell collection of global distribution, containing gastropods, bivalves, tusk shells, cephalopods and chitons