Image of the month August 2008: Leptolepis constrictus a tiny fossil fish from the Upper Lias of Ilminster, the scale bar is in centimeters. This fossil locality (Strawberry Bank) is now built upon .
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Image of the month September 2008: Sus scrofa, the wild boar, illustrated in Historiae naturalis de quadrupedibus libri writen by the Polish Naturalist Joannes Jonstonus in the 17th Century . |
Image of the month October 2008: Romano British bronze brooch, inlaid with coloured enamel. Found at Lansdown, Bath, September 1905. Though in need of a little conservation, this is a fine piece.
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 Image of the month November 2008: Alethopteris serlii, a fragment of the frond of a seed fern, one of the first types of plant to bear seeds. From the coal measures of Radstock, 307 million years old. |
 Image of the month December 2008:
Rein Deer from Thomas Bewick's 'Quadrupeds' of which the BRLSI has a number of copies. This imag hs been false coloured by me.
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Image of the month January 2009: Pepperbox six barreled revolver, made by Clough & Son of Bath, this double action revolver cocks and rotaes the barels as the triger is depressed. |
Image of the month March 2009: A specimen of pyromorphite, lead chlorophosphate, made up of beautiful green hexagonal prisms as can be seen in the close-up. |
Image of the month June 2009: An ichthyosaur skull from the Upper Lias of Strawberry Bank, Ilminster, undergoing some preparatory work at the Univeristy of Bristol. |
Image of the month July 2009: This Swallowtail butterfly, Papilio machaon, was collected at least 130 years ago and yet it is still beautifully preserved. |
Image of the month August 2009 : This is the tooth of a type marine reptile called a plesiosaur, these where predators durring the Messozoic Era but were not dinosaurs. This was from a particularly large animal (scale bar in cm). |
Image of the month November 2009: This is a fragment of ammonite shell, a tubicolous annelid or tube worm called Serpula has secreted its calcareous tube-like shell on to it. |
Image of the month December 2009: "The holy and the ivy", wood block prints by Christopher Plantin from Gerards herbal (1597). Coloured by Matt Williams. |
Image of the month January 2010: Aeger tipularis, a prawn from the Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. one of the most famous fossil localities in the world. |
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