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  • Crested gecko (Correlophus ciliatus) eye
  • Meteorology: the sun in Baffin Bay disperses thick fog in the shape of a semicircle. Coloured etching by P. Fumagalli, 1827, after B. O'Reilly.
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
  • A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
  • Coccolithophore
  • 'Panopepton' : the food for the sick / Fairchild Bros. & Foster.
  • A Basque woman posing with an earthenware jug on her head.
  • The most popular agent / Drs. Starkey & Palen.
  • Sailors in drag on S.S. Caronia. Photograph, 195-.
  • Sailors in drag on S.S. Caronia. Photograph, 195-.
  • Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
  • Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
  • Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
  • A sailor in drag on S.S. Caronia. Photograph, 195-.
  • A sailor in drag on S.S. Caronia. Photograph, 195-.
  • A sailor from HMS Dreadnought, clenching his fist. Process print, 1915.
  • A sailor from HMS Dreadnought, clenching his fist. Process print, 1915.
  • A medicine show; a moustachioed charlatan holds up a phial, a miserable patient sits in the carriage and a black man in uniform bangs the drums. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison.
  • The emblematic figure of a man representing secularisation, technical innovation, educational reforms and liberal politics in the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1830.
  • Colombia: a shed on the banks of a lagoon of the River Cienega. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.