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 An open book with pasted newspaper clippings and a mounted sketch. A woman sits in front, taking notes.

ALT A sign titled 'Nature's Explorers' standing behind an open book. The book has several illustrations of blue butterflies on the right, and handwritten notes on right.

ALT A book, open to an illustration of an identified mammal, sitting on a book cradle to be digitised. A man stands in the background, ready to turn the page.

ALT Shelves of modern collection books.

ALT Member of staff giving a presentation in the library.

ALT Someone looking through a box of archives, standing in front of a bookshelf full of more boxes.

ALT Two people with library trollies in the main hall of the Natural History Museum

ALT Two people working at a library desk

ALT Four adults and a child gathered around a display of rare books and manuscripts, surrounded by wooden bookcases.

ALT Black and white photo of a man standing in front of a large wooden card cabinet. He has three drawers open and is searching through the cards in one.

ALT Full page of opaque watercolours and captions, with Fountaine’s monogram in the bottom right. There are six caterpillars of various sizes and colours, resting on and eating leaves, and three chrysalises attach to small portions of stems.

ALT Opaque watercolour of Acraea Caldarena as a caterpillar, with cropped text underneath. It is side-on, with its head raised and facing left, resting on a flower stem with four pink buds. It is yellow at both ends, with a gradient to a deep red in its centre, and a red and white striped underbelly. It is covered in large, thin black spikes.

ALT Part of a page with yellowing along its edges. Cursive handwriting reads: Botanical Mission to the Island of Luconia, in the year 1805. William Kerr’s signature is in the bottom right corner.

ALT Pencil sketch of a snipe bird in 9 different positions during a swoop, with dotted lines connecting them to show the order. The bird starts in the right-hand corner, goes straight left, down to the bottom right and loops before going upwards to the left at a gentler angle.

ALT Three watercolour panels of five grey geese. The geese have a gradient from their brown heads to grey wings, and white underbellies, on a background of blue sky, brown scribbled foliage, and green grass. They show the geese sitting and standing whilst resting, gathering together alarmed, and finally taking flight.

ALT A page with two columns of text – each line in each column has a word followed by a number; all the words are in alphabetical order and begin with C.

ALT Tow books on display, one a modern book on Nature's Explorers and another is a manuscript of illustrations and descriptions of butterflies.