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  • Rain charms- DOIOM from Expeditions to the Torres Straits
  • Colonial Studies, expeditions and drugs. Copy prepared by Dr. F. Guerra.
  • Snow goggles as worn by the Lapps. Front view supplied to Antartic expeditions.
  • Nepal; Sherpa porters in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpa porters prepare for a trekking expedition organised for a party of western vacationists. They will guide, bring up the rear, cook and strike camp. Such expeditions pay cash wages far in excess of anything Sherpas could hope to earn elsewhere and such income is invested in loans, cattle, land, tradeable articles and jewellery. Until the influx of mountaineering expeditions following Hillary's Everest climb (1953), western medicine was unknown in the Khumbu. Distribution of mainly analgesic and antibiotic drugs has led to misuse.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Manuscript map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) drawn using black, blue and red ink, contained in a journal by Barton mainly written while a medical officer in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Journal record the completion of the expedition to China, return to Shanhai and subsequent embarkation on the P and O steamer Aden (3 August) for Ceylon, via Singapore, with later entries on hunting expeditions in Ceylon.
  • Jebel Moya & Lachish expedition.
  • Medicine chest supplied to Shackleton Expedition
  • Jebel Moya & Lachish expedition, school
  • Drawing of Sacred Tree from Ninevah expedition
  • Tabloid medicine chest from Scott Polar Expedition
  • Supplies for the British Antartic expedition, 1910
  • Drawings of Ninevah expedition by Sir Henry Layards
  • Winged lion from Ninevah expedition by Sir Layards
  • Yezida from Ninevah expedition by Sir Henry Layards
  • Cornice from Ninevah expedition by Sir Henry Layards
  • Assyrian Warriors from Ninevah expedition by Sir Layards
  • Coloured drawing of The Palace from Ninevah expedition
  • Snow goggles from Captain Nares expedition of 1875.
  • Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition
  • Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition
  • Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition
  • Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition
  • Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition
  • Khorsabad head from Ninevah expedition by Sir Henry Layards