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  • Billie Manders and members of the Quaintesques. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Billie Manders and members of the Quaintesques. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Billie Manders and members of the Quaintesques. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • William Harvey. Oil painting after P. Lely.
  • Scene from Sir Walter Scott's "Anne of Geierstein": Hermione takes refuge in the chemical laboratory of Sir Herman, an Austrian alchemist. Oil painting.
  • Scene from Sir Walter Scott's "Anne of Geierstein": Hermione takes refuge in the chemical laboratory of Sir Herman, an Austrian alchemist. Oil painting.
  • Baroness Burdett-Coutts' garden party at Holly Lodge, Highgate, for members of the International Medical Congress, 1881. Oil painting by Archibald Preston Tilt and/or Alfred Preston Tilt and/or Arthur Preston Tilt, 1881-1882.
  • Baroness Burdett-Coutts' garden party at Holly Lodge, Highgate, for members of the International Medical Congress, 1881. Oil painting by Archibald Preston Tilt and/or Alfred Preston Tilt and/or Arthur Preston Tilt, 1881-1882.
  • Thomas Turner of Manchester. Oil painting attributed to W. Bonnar.
  • Sir William Osler memorial number : appreciations and reminiscences / edited by Maude E. Abbott.
  • James Bruce of Kinnaird, having reached a fountain at Gisha (Abyssinia) regarded as the source of the Nile, uses a coconut to drink the water to the health of King George III and Empress Catherine the Great. Engraving by J. Gillray, 1793, after R.M. Paye.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • Sarah Biffin. Watercolour by Sarah Biffin, 1812.
  • Sarah Biffin, a limbless artist. Lithograph by H. Grévedon after S. Biffin.
  • Sarah Biffin, a limbless artist. Lithograph by R. T. Stothard after S. Biffin.
  • Group portrait at Edinburgh University
  • Sarah Biffin, a limbless painter. Engraving by R.W. Sievier, 1821, after Sarah Biffin.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.