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  • Nine green and red diagrams with English lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea Physic Garden, London. Close-up of bees at honeycomb tray. Insect members of the superfamily Apoidea, found almost everywhere, particularly on flowers. Their young are fed honey and pollen rather than animal food. Honey is collected in the form of nectar from flowers and concentrated into honey by evaporation. For most people bee stings are of little significance and are treated locally; other persons, however, react with hypersensitivity putting them in serious danger.
  • Frontispiece to 'Instructions for collecting, rearing...'
  • Grasshopper (?). Watercolour, 1777/1783.
  • Grasshopper (?). Watercolour, 1777/1783
  • Grasshopper (?). Watercolour, 1777/1783.
  • Insects and reptiles from different parts of the world, including a hooded serpent, a locust and an elephant beetle. Etching by W. Grainger.
  • Kossolian blood salt for poultry...
  • Prurisedine.
  • Prurisedine.
  • Prurisedine.
  • Prurisedine.
  • First aid for lay people before the doctor arrives. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • A female superb warbler sitting on a branch of a tree. Etching by P. Mazell.
  • A female superb warbler sitting on a branch of a tree. Etching by P. Mazell.
  • A male superb warbler sitting on a branch of a tree. Etching by P. Mazell.
  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
  • Fairy fly (Himopolynema), parasitoid wasp
  • Should these clouds gather in your holiday sky, try : 'Marzine' ...
  • Drosera rotundifolia (Sundew)
  • An information sheet about AIDS for parents, teachers and students with 7 questions and answers and illustrations on how AIDS is not transmitted; an advertisement by the Federal Minister for Youth, Family, Women and Health. Colour lithograph by Mike Biele, Papen and Design Werkstatt.
  • Drosera rotundifolia (Sundew)
  • Drosera intermedia (Sundew)
  • Honey bee
  • Leafhopper, lateral
  • Drosophila proboscis
  • Drosophila proboscis