D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Professor of Biology at University College, Dundee from 1884 and Professor of Natural History at St Andrews from 1917, served as Scientific Advisor to the British Delegation of the Bering Sea…
Unable to pick just one of these beautiful illustrations, today we have a series of images from manuscripts in the D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson papers. The drawings of jelly fish and sea anemones are by Tilesius…
A Voyage round Great Britain is the work of writer Richard Ayton and artist William Daniell. The eight volume work documents their travels around the coastline of Britain between 1813 and 1823, including this image of…
This cute fella is from Salviani’s Aquatilium animalium historiae. Hippolito Salviani (1514-1572) published Aquatilium animalium historiae in Rome in 1554. Salviani’s work describes species of fish and molluscs from…
The Rock and Spindle, a well-known rock formation at the eastern edge of the St Andrews bay and a feature of the local coastline, was captured by photographer Thomas Rodger in this photograph, c.1860 [ID: ALB-2-221].…
The Naturalist’s Library is a series of natural history volumes edited by Sir William Jardine and published between 1833 and 1843 by Edinburgh based printers, William Home Lizars. This engraving of the walrus is taken…
Margaret Scott Gatty, a children’s author and writer on marine biology, published British Sea Weeds in 1863. In the Libraries and Museums collections are some of Gatty’s albums of marine botanical specimens, such as…
From the G. Allan Little Scottish Photographic Collection, an image of gulls on the Isle of May, c.1970 (ID: GAL-2-49-B). The Isle of May in the Firth of Forth is a nature reserve famous for sea-birds. Visitors can…
Georg Eberhard Rumphius, or Rumpf, was a German-born botanist born in 1627. He was employed by the Dutch East India Company and sent to the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. Although a merchant he was given leave to study the…
This year’s Advent calendar takes the theme of oceans and coastlines, in support of the Dive In! Protecting Our Ocean exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum – an exploration of our ocean, the threats it faces and what you…