The first drawing of the Ceratias uranoscopus, the stargazing seadevil, drawn by Sir John Murray aboard HMS Challenger during its expedition to learn more about the deep sea. The University of Edinburgh holds the remnants of the archive of the expedition and printing process of the Reports.
Naturalist Robert Atkinson embarked on a survey of Hebridean Islands in the mid-1930s to survey and count the Leach's fork-tailed petrel. He landed on St Kilda in July 1938, which had been evacuated in 1930. Atkinson captured the transition and re-wilding of the island during his search for the rare petrel, going into vacant cottages and buildings. This gentle photograph captures a small wren resting in the warm light of a window in the old School House.
