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ALT A black and white photograph of two male and one female librarians in the NHM Library c.1900
ALT A horse-drawn bus sits on the road outside the museum building. Seven men can be seen sitting in the vehicle and eighteen stand outside.
ALT Two men examining a ball of lava on the end of a stick
ALT A page covered with a collage of many individual colour drawings of sea shells.
ALT A bound manuscript volume, open showing hand drawn butterflies on the left and handwritten notes on the right. Behind it, standing upright is a modern Museum publication titled 'Nature's Explorers'.
ALT A screen grab of a page from the website titled 'Digitised collections from the Library and Archives.
ALT Original hand drawn artwork depicting the head, front legs and unfurled long tongue of a pangolin.
ALT A staff member operating a piece of digitisation equipment which is cradling an open bound volume of botanical artwork , with a camera above.
ALT The side view of a grasshopper-like insect, in colour.
ALT Page of a lined notebook on which there are three labelled sketches of plants in blue ink.
ALT A busy room of people sitting behind tables advertising their institution. People stand in front of the tables looking at what is displayed and chatting to those at the table.
ALT Three people behind a table, with books and paper items on it. Two of the people are standing and one is seated looking at the camera holding a knitted Mary Anning doll.
ALT Person sitting at a library desk facing the camera, holding their book.
ALT Nine books laid out on the table all with a botanical theme.
ALT Large, black, free standing banner headed 'Library and archives', stands in a room with people setting up tables and chairs.
ALT Two people organising a table with books and handouts displayed on it. On the floor next to the table is a large dinosaur cuddly toy.
ALT A large cuddly dinosaur sits on the knee of a seated life sized model of Charles Darwin. Whilst a knitted Mary Anning sits on his arm.
ALT Sideways view of a seated life sized model of Charles Darwin, he is reading a book. Placed on his knee is a large cuddly dinosaur and knitted Mary Anning toy.
ALT Five books about jellyfish laid out on a table
ALT A group of students seated in a library reading room, watching a presentation by two staff. There are two large desks with a display of items on.