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  • Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History Society.
  • Evolution of the horse as shown by limbs andd skulls recovered from successive horizons in the cenozoic. American Museum of Natureal History.
  • Osmanthus delavayi Franch. Oleaceae Evergreen shrub. Distribution: China. Osmanthus is derived from the Greek for 'fragrant flower', delavayi from its discoverer, the French Missionary with the Missions Étrangères, and plant collector, Pierre Delavay (1834-1895). He sent 200,000 herbarium specimens containing 4000 species including 1,500 new species to Franchet at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. He sent seed of O. delavayi to France (1886), but only one germinated, and all the plants in cultivation until it was recollected 40 years later, arose from this plant (Bretschneider, 1896). The flowers are used to make a tea in China, but the berries (drupes) are not regarded as edible. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Myanmar (Burma): a Padaung woman wearing neck-rings to lengthen the neck. Process print after a bronze sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, ca. 1933.
  • Darwin : big idea, big exhibition / Natural History Museum.
  • Darwin : big idea, big exhibition / Natural History Museum.
  • A decade of progress in Eugenics. Scientific
  • Artic, model of S.S. Discovery.
  • Showcase of fish found in the Artic regions.
  • Showcase of fish found in Antartic regions.
  • Human skulls: three figures showing the skulls of an African, a Native American and a Chinese. Stipple engraving, 1843.
  • A map of London, with a scale and north point: from Greenwich to Hammersmith east-west, and from Highgate to Stockwell north-south. Wood engraving by J. Dower after himself, 1862.
  • Human skulls: three figures showing the skulls of an African, a Native American and a Chinese, seen from beneath. Stipple engraving, 1843.
  • The Natural History Museum, South Kensington: plan, above, and the street elevation, below. Photo-lithograph after M. B. Adams, 1879, after A. Waterhouse.
  • Museum Wormiani Historia 1655
  • Fossilized skeleton of a plesiosaurus triatarsostinus. Lithograph by H. O'Neill, 1834.
  • Charles Darwin, 1809-1882.
  • Darwin : ornithology.
  • Darwin : botany.
  • Madame du Barry (?) and two servants demonstrate an experiment on electricity to a lady seated in a chair attended by two men. Engraving by J,F. Beauvarlet after C.A. Vanloo, ca. 1770 (?).
  • Stones bearing the names of AIDS victims; advertising World AIDS Day 1992 in Berlin. Colour lithograph by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher AIDS-Stiftungen and Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe.
  • Evidence as to man's place in nature / by Thomas Henry Huxley.
  • Evidence as to man's place in nature / by Thomas Henry Huxley.
  • Evidence as to man's place in nature / by Thomas Henry Huxley.
  • Evidence as to man's place in nature / by Thomas Henry Huxley.
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • Silver King, a polar bear, being taken by ship away from his homeland. Colour lithograph.
  • London Pavilion : Giant Constantin : manager, Mr. Frank Glenister.
  • London Pavilion : Giant Constantin : manager, Mr. Frank Glenister.