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  • A sun in the '0' of the number '10' with a list of statistics about AIDS and HIV in New Zealand representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993 by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation and Capital Coast Health.
  • The sun in the '0' of the number '10' with a list of statistics about AIDS and HIV in New Zealand representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993 by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation and Capital Coast Health. Photocopy.
  • Slave traders on an African coast enslave some of its inhabitants: a man is taken by two slave traders to their boat, while his wife and child is taken by a different slave trader to another boat. Coloured stipple engraving by Citoyenne Rollet after George Morland.
  • Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : An account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the West, through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast / [James Johnston].
  • Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : An account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the West, through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast / [James Johnston].
  • Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : An account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the West, through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast / [James Johnston].
  • An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of Coromandel; containing descriptions and drawings of each species; together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons / By Patrick Russell. Presented to the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company, and published by their order, under the superintendence of the author.
  • An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of Coromandel; containing descriptions and drawings of each species; together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons / By Patrick Russell. Presented to the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company, and published by their order, under the superintendence of the author.
  • Justicia carnea Lindl. Acanthaceae. Brazilian Plume flower, Flamingo flower. Shrimp plant. Tender shrub. Distribution: Atlantic coast of Brazil. Named for James Justice (1698-1753) Scottish horticulturist, lawyer, 'tulip maniac' (Desmond, 1977). Asian species of Justicia are noted to be toxic and contain cytotoxic compounds which inhibit virus replication (Wiart, 2006) Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Garrya elliptica Douglas ex Lindl. Garryaceae. Coast silk tassel. Evergreen shrub. Distribution: California and southern Oregon. Named for Nicholas Garry, Secretary of the Hudson Bay Company (1820-1830) who assisted David Douglas in his exploration of the Pacific Northwest (Stearn, 1992). Used by Pomo and Kashaya as an abortifacient and to induce menstruation (Moerman, 1998). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Journal of a second expedition into the interior of Africa, from the Bight of Berin to Soccatoo / by the late Commander Clapperton ... To which is added, the journal of Richard Lander from Kano to the sea-coast. Partly by a more eastern route. With a portrait of Captain Clapperton, and a map of the route, chiefly laid down from actual observations for latitude and longitude.
  • Journal of a second expedition into the interior of Africa, from the Bight of Berin to Soccatoo / by the late Commander Clapperton ... To which is added, the journal of Richard Lander from Kano to the sea-coast. Partly by a more eastern route. With a portrait of Captain Clapperton, and a map of the route, chiefly laid down from actual observations for latitude and longitude.
  • Ezekiel has a vision of angels and spheres with eyes coasting along the thunderstruck sea. Etching by R. Pranker, 176-, after B. Picart.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777. Elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J.G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author.
  • Solanum laciniatum Aiton Solanaceae. Kangaroo Apple. Evergreen shrub. Distribution: New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. It contains steroidal saponins that can be converted into steroids, including progesterone, oestrogens, cortisone, prednisolone etc. In 1943, Professor Russell Marker discovered a method of obtaining an unsaturated steroidal saponine, diosogenin, from Mexican yam (Dioscorea mexicana), which can easily and cheaply be converted into steroids, such as prednisone and progesterone, reducing the price of steroid production to a fraction (0.5%) of its former cost. For 20 years drug companies showed little interest, and it was only as a result of Professor Marker forming his own company, and the concerted efforts of several gynaecologists, physiologists and birth-control advocates, that the contraceptive pill was ‘born’ in 1960. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Smyrnium olusatrum L. Apiaceae. Alexanders, Black Lovage, Horse Parsley. Distribution: W & S Europe, Mediterranean. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Hipposelinum. Alexanders or Alisanders, provoke urine, expel the afterbirth, provoke urine, help the strangury, expel the wind.’ Culpeper has taken this mainly from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (circa 100 AD). The genus name is said to derive from Smyrna, a city which was founded by Alexander the Great (although there was one which pre-dated his Smyrna). on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. The species name comes from the Latin olus meaning a pot herb (cooking vegetable) and atrum meaning black, in reference to the seeds. It is described as tasting like a rather bitter, second-class celery. The English name may derive from Alexandria or Alexander the Great. It is rarely used in herbal medicine now. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.1, January 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.1, January 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.1, January 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.1, January 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
  • Statistics about HIV in New Zealand 10 years since the start of the diagnosis of AIDS in New Zealand; an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Birds of the sand dunes shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds of the sand dunes shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • A coastal bay at Clevedon in Somerset. Lithograph after a sketch by Lady Elton, 1838.
  • Skull, dugong
  • Single grain of sand, SEM
  • Glory Bower (Clerodendron serratum Spreng.): two flowering shoots, infloresence and sections of flower, seed and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • A species of Rutaceae: branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.