The wreck of the steamship 'Union' on the coast of lower California Size:L: 75 x 50cm The launching of the buoy

The launching of the buoy marking the spot where the cable had been grappled

' Royal Society stamp verso

Collier's original painting was completed by July-August 1881 and shows the naturalist in the last year of his life

Saxony and Russia fought unsuccessfully against France

Ornithological study of a Blue-headed Pionus Pionus menstruus

The wreck of the steamship 'Union' on the coast of lower California Size:L: 75 x 50cm The launching of the buoyThe wreck of the steamship 'Union' on the coast of lower California, 1851 (1937). From Old California, In Pictures and Story, by Stewart Edward White and published by Doubleday, Doran and Company (New York, 1937).