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  • A large wood mouse carrying its young on its back. Coloured etching by Barlow after J. E. Ihle.
  • A crested porcupine. Coloured etching by Barlow after J. E. Ihle.
  • Above, the heads of a Cretan sheep and an Iceland sheep; below, a four horned ram standing on a meadow. Coloured etching by Barlow after J. E. Ihle.
  • Dhak or palas tree (Butea monosperma): flowering branch with fruit and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
  • Peach (Prunus persica) and nectarine (Prunus persica var. nectarina): fruiting branches and butterfly. Coloured etching, c. 1797, after J. Ihle.
  • Fruiting branch of a sapodillo tree (Manilkara zapota) and four mites. Coloured etching, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.
  • A cayman is fighting with a viper next to the freshly hatched cayman egg. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Pass after J. E. Ihle.
  • A large barbary spider with her young in her web. Etching by J. Pass, ca. 1796, after J. E. Ihle.
  • A proboscis monkey holding on to a tree with its right arm while holding a fruit in its left arm. Coloured etching by J. Pass after J. E. Ihle.
  • A horned Indian pheasant standing on the grass lifting its left foot. Coloured etching by J. Pass after J. E. Ihle.
  • An orang-utan carrying a girl into a tree as a man shoots arrows from below. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman, ca. 1795, after J.B. Ihle.
  • Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis): fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1796, after J. Ihle.
  • Rock balsam plant (Clusia rosea): flowering and fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1800, after J. Ihle.
  • Four types of spurge (Euphorbia species): two succulent stems and two low-growing plants. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1805, after J. Ihle.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona caribbaea): flowering and fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
  • Five fungi, including two Boletus species, with anatomical detail. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1809, after J. Ihle.
  • Sappanwood tree (Caesalpinia sappan): flowering branch, pod and thorns. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
  • Turk's cap cactus (Melocactus communis): flowering plant. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1800, after J. Ihle.
  • A plant (Limnophila racemosa): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1809, after J. Ihle.
  • A fruiting nectarine (Prunus persica) and two almond plants (Prunus dulcis). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1809, after J. Ihle.
  • Citron (Citrus medica): fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1800, after J. Ihle.
  • Flowers, stem and leaf of a tropical plant (Dillenia pentagyna) and five skin beetles (Dermestes species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1803, after J. Ihle.
  • Cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) with insects that feed on it, including the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
  • Bahama whitewood tree (Canella winterana): flowering and fruiting branch and beetle. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.
  • A plant (Amaranthus cruentus): flowering stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1797, after J. Ihle.
  • Clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum): flowering and fruiting stem with cloves and parasitic worm. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.
  • Prickly poppy (Argemone mexicana): flowering stem with caterpillar and insect. Etching by J. Pass, c. 1798, after J. Ihle.
  • Seaside grape (Coccoloba uvifera): fruiting stem and floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
  • A fruiting branch of common persimmon tree (Diospyros virginiana) with two fungi. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona officinalis): flowering and fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.