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  • A plant (Spathiphyllum minahassae T. & B. Tjariang Poetie): spadix and leaf with separate numbered sections of spadix, flower and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Pride-of-India, queen flower or pyinma (Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers.): flowering branch with numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Javanese people playing the gamelan. Engraving.
  • Strophanthus dichotomus Decne.: flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flower, follicle and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving.
  • A plant (Saraca declinata Miq.) related to the asoka tree: flowering and fruiting shoot with separate numbered flowers, seeds and germinating seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona lancifolia): flowering and fruiting stem. Lithograph, c. 1883.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona lancifolia): flowering and fruiting stem. Lithograph, c. 1883.
  • Krakatoa: plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) and coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in a forest clearing, with native man and his hut. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
  • Java: human skeletons lying in a valley poisoned by volcanic gases, being watched by travellers. Coloured aquatint.
  • Fritz Ronnefeldt distributing medicine. Photograph.
  • Wooden figure of bare-breasted female demon
  • Maison des inhabitants...
  • Wooden figure of bare-breasted female demon
  • Leprosy: health education
  • Leprosy: borderline tuberculoid leprosy
  • An orang-utan, a hooded serpent and an ape sitting on the outskirts of a tropical rainforest. Etching, 1744.
  • Preparing flooded fields for rice planting
  • A couple with their baby within a map of Nigeria: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, Lagos ca. 1990.
  • Leprosy: treatment, traditional medicine
  • Nepal; bullock cart in the Terai, Rapti Valley, 1986
  • Two trees bearing silhouettes of families: population increase in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Nigerian Educational Research & Development Council (NERDC), ca. 1990.
  • Eugenia caryophyllus (Cloves)
  • The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.
  • Komodo Dragon