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  • Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1620-1670. Patron of the Accademia de Cimento - the famous scientific society. Portrait age about 40.
  • History of the Physiological Society during its first fifty years, 1876-1926 / by Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer.
  • Dear Sir, I have the pleasure to acknowledge receipt of your letter of ... / Bombay Natural History Society.
  • Notice for conference promoting neurosurgical care in Africa: Colour lithograph by East African Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2011.
  • N. Grew, the anatomy of plants / With an ide
  • T. Birch, The History of the Royal Society
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  • A Quaker family are sitting at the dinner table and the father has his hands together as he gives thanks for the food. Mezzotint by Charles G. Lewis after Alexander Fraser.
  • Buyers collecting their purchases after a sale of insects. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.
  • A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.