EditorialHerpestes javanicus, Print, The Javan mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) is a species of mongoose found in the wild in South and Southeast Asia. It has also been introduced to Hawaii, the Bahamas, Cuba, Croatia, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Lesser...
EditorialHerpestes javanicus, Print, The Javan mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) is a species of mongoose found in the wild in South and Southeast Asia. It has also been introduced to Hawaii, the Bahamas, Cuba, Croatia, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Lesser...
EditorialCoryphaena hippurus, Print, The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. Also widely called dorado and dolphin, it is one of tw...
EditorialLeporinus fasciatus, Print, Leporinus fasciatus, commonly known as the banded leporinus or the black-banded leporinus, is a species of characin in the family Anostomidae. L. fasciatus is native to the Amazon Basin in South America, but has been introdu...
EditorialLeporinus fasciatus, Print, Leporinus fasciatus, commonly known as the banded leporinus or the black-banded leporinus, is a species of characin in the family Anostomidae. L. fasciatus is native to the Amazon Basin in South America, but has been introdu...
EditorialAnous stolidus, Print, The brown noddy or common noddy (Anous stolidus) is a seabird in the family Laridae. The largest of the noddies, it can be told from the closely related black noddy by its larger size and plumage, which is dark brown rather than ...
EditorialMorai or sacred cemetery on Kauai, Hawaii (Atooi). Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Bernieri after John Webber from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.
EditorialInterior of a Morai or sacred cemetery on Kauai, Hawaii (Atooi). Interior of a long house or mana in the heiau (morai) at Waimea with carved representations of the gods. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Bernieri after John Webber from Giulio Ferrar...
EditorialAn offering before Captain Cook in the Sandwich Islands. Drawn by John Webber; the landscape engraving by Samuel Middiman; the figures by John Hall. A scene in Hawaii in 1778. Hawaiian men are seated on the ground around four European men, and are offe...
EditorialThe death of Captain Cook'. Captain James Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779. A collection of drawings by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson, and J. F. Miller, made in the Countries visi...
EditorialTereoboo (Kalaniopuu), King of Owyhee (Hawaii), bringing presents to Captain Cook. The picture shows a Hawaiian canoe with "crab-claw" and many oarsmen, carrying Kalaniopuu, the Hawaiian chief, to visit Captain Cook aboard the 'Resolution'. The main c...
EditorialView of Karakakooa in Owhyhee. Drawn by John Webber and engraved by W.Byrne. Shows the Resolution and Discovery at anchor in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, with Hawaiian canoes in foreground. A collection of drawings by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson, and J. F. Mill...
EditorialMorai or sacred cemetery on Kauai, Hawaii (Atooi). Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Bernieri after John Webber from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844.
EditorialInterior of a Morai or sacred cemetery on Kauai, Hawaii (Atooi). Interior of a long house or mana in the heiau (morai) at Waimea with carved representations of the gods. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Bernieri after John Webber from Giulio Ferrar...
EditorialKamehameha I, King of Hawaii (as Tammeamea I, King of the Sandwich Islands), and Naba Leba, Queen of Solor (Indonesia). Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836.
EditorialNatives of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), 19th century. Copied from Louis Choris' "Voyage Pittoresque." Handcoloured lithograph by J. Bull from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.
EditorialBurial grounds on Hawaii (Sandwich Islands). Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the Ger...
EditorialTattooed woman dancer from the island of Movi (Maui, Hawaii) and man in headdress and skirt from the Freindly islands (Tonga). Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Ga...
EditorialChiefs of the Sandwich islands (Hawaii): Kiaimoukou surnamed Cox, Chief of Maui Island (center), a tattooed chief of Oahu Island (left) and officer to Kiaimoukou (right). Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkerga...
EditorialHouse of the first minister to the king, Sandwich Island (Hawaii), with guard and woman making various materials. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peop...
EditorialAn officer of King Liholiho (Kamehameha II) of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) in full dress with helmet, spear and cape over tattooed body, and dancer with shield. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie i...
Editorial'The Shell', 1650. The shell is a Conus marmoreus, which is native to south-east Africa, Polynesia and Hawaii. The shell's striking pattern, with the tight spiral of its base, has been captured in great detail. PD, 1868-8-22-672 (Hind 248, Bartsch 159).