The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society Museum at No. 7 College Square North, completed in 1831. The portico is an exact copy of the octagon tower of Andronicus in Athens.

The Museum in 1831. The architects were Thomas Duff and Thomas Jackson. The building has three stories. In the lower story were the lecture-room and library. Each of the upper stories is a single room, forty-seven feet in length, and twenty-seven feet wide, which housed the public museum. A laboratory was later attached to the lecture room.

Specimen of an emperor penguin donated to the Belfast Natural History Society by Francis Crozier

Plate from On the Polyphony of the Assyrio-Babylonian Cuneiform Writing Edward Hincks

Hyndman's insect diary

Dredging for marine animals in 1849