Charles Spencer, 1886, View across Lake Rotorua, Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58685

Mary Rosse, 1857 (ca), Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland, Albumen print, stereoview, detail, The Royal Society, LL/58674

Mary Rosse, 1857 (ca), Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland, Albumen print, stereoview, detail, The Royal Society, LL/58673

Unidentified photographer, 1870, Clear for Action [Commander E. D. Ashe and assistants], Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58684

Charles Spencer, 1886, View from Te Hape o toroa at back Site of Pink Terrace, Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58688

Charles Spencer, 1886, View into the Chasm where Lake Rotomahana was from East Slope of Te Hape-o-toroa, Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58690

Unidentified photographer, 1878, Venus's flower basket, Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58677

Charles Spencer, 1886, McRae's Hotel, Interior, Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58689

Unidentified photographer, 1889, Thylacoleo fossil skull, Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/63956

Mary Rosse, 1857 (ca), Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland, Albumen print, stereoview, detail, The Royal Society, LL/58671

Alphonse Bernoud / Claude Grillet, 1857-1858, Pertosa [earthquake damage], Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58678

Mary Rosse, 1857 (ca), Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland, Albumen print, stereoview, detail, The Royal Society, LL/58672

Charles Spencer, 1886, Tarawera Lake from the Wairoa Valley, Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58687

Mary Rosse, 1857 (ca), Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland, Albumen print, stereoview, The Royal Society, LL/58670

Alphonse Bernoud / Claude Grillet, 1857-1858, At Polla [earthquake damage], Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58667

Alphonse Bernoud / Claude Grillet, 1857-1858, Villa Carusso [earthquake damage], Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58668

Mary Rosse, 1861, Lord Rosse's telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland, Albumen prints, mounted, The Royal Society, LL/58681

Caleb Burrell Rose, 1859 (or earlier), Two specimens of fern leaf [An early attempt at Photography from Norwich], Photogenic drawing, The Royal Society, LL/58683

Alphonse Bernoud / Claude Grillet, 1857-1858, Potenza, north side, Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58679

Robert Hooke, 1662, Figures observ'd in snow, Ink wash on paper, The Royal Society, LL/58680

Charles Spencer, 1886, General View from 4 Miles West of the Great Fissure looking N.E., Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58686

Christian Albrecht Jensen, 1843 (1792-1870, Danish, painter), Sir John Herschel, Oil on canvas, The Royal Society, LL/76280

Henry Fox Talbot, 1839, 28 January (Recd.) , 31 January (Read), Handwritten text for "Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing, or, the process by which natural objects may be made to delineate themselves, without the aid of the artist's pencil", Page, with handwriting, The Royal Society, LL/65102

John Phillips, 1853, Study of the Moon, Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58676

Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, 1896, 26 June (dated on print), X-ray photograph of the hand of William Crookes, Photograph, x-ray, The Royal Society, LL/58666

Henri-Victor Regnault, 1853, The Ladder, Blanquart-Evrard salt print from waxed paper negative, The Royal Society, LL/59211

Alphonse Bernoud / Claude Grillet, 1857-1858, Rocks, Rio Agri…, Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58669

Unidentified photographer, 1867 (ca), Mirror cell for the Great Melbourne Telescope speculum, Albumen print, The Royal Society, LL/58675