P. Brock Ichneumonidae Shell collections, nudibranchs and sea sponges J.R.Stoffel types of Agrias butterflies Important individual specimens Holotype of the emperor penguin collected by Captain Crozier of Banbridge Champion Patrick of Ifold – Irish Wolfhound Dwarf elephant skeletons from Sicily. The Egyptian mummified body of Takabuti. Mummy case of Tjesmutperet. Slender-billed curlew Rothschild's, Queen Alexandra's and other birdwing butterflies. Giant clam – given to the Belfast Natural History Society by Francis Walker Lammergeier mount by James Sheals Gervais' beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus) Japanese spider crab Bonaparte's gull collected by William Thompson – the first European specimen. Giant squid model Thylacine Coelacanth Bald eagle juvenile from near Garrison, County Fermanagh on 11 January 1973. First European record. Passenger pigeon Irish elk Yellow-billed cuckoo (Irish specimen) Conus gloriamaris Wildlife art The Zoology Department also maintains collections of wildlife art. Works by Peter Scott, Joseph Wolf, Eric Ennion, John Gerrard Keulemans, Roger Tory Peterson, Charles Tunnicliffe, Robert Gillmor and Archibald Thorburn are included. Illustrated works held by the Zoology Department include British Entomology - being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland – a classic work of entomology by John Curtis and Niccolò Gualtieri's Index Testarum Conchyliorum, quae adservantur in Museo Nicolai Gualtieri 1742. Botany The herbarium (BEL) The herbarium in the Ulster Museum (BEL), is based on specimens from Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society (founded in 1821); the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club (founded in 1863); the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery (formed 1905) and the herbarium (BFT) of the Botany Department of The Queen's University, Belfast acquired in 1968. In total the number of specimens is more than 100,000. Although specimens from Northern Ireland are well represented, specimens from elsewhere in the world have been acquired by donation, exchange and purchase. All branches of the world's flora are represented: algae, lichens, fungi, mosses and pteridophytes (ferns), conifers and angiosperms. Little information about the Irish flora before 1830 is available, the oldest specimen in the Ulster Museum is an alga: Batrachospermum moniliforme (BEL: F41) collected in 1798 by John Templeton, other specimens of Batrachospermum, originally incorrectly identified as Thorea ramoissima were collected by John Templeton in 1815 from a "boghole" in Co. Donegal (BEL:F42 – F47). It was originally published by Harvey in 1841. List of some of the collectors S.A.Bennett (1843–1929) Corrie Denew Chase (1878–1965) (vascular plants and algae) – his herbarium of about