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  • Badianus Codex, (facsimile), 16th century: species of Datura
  • Badianus Codex: photograph of open book
  • Tobacco plants (Nicotiana rustica and N. paniculata): flowering and fruiting stem of both species with their respective floral segments.Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1805, after P.Henderson.
  • Badianus Codex: photograph of open book
  • Georges-Léopold-Chrétien-Frédéric-Dagobert, Baron Cuvier. Plaster bust by P.-J. David d'Angers, 1838.
  • Head of a boy in profile, used to illustrate phrenological classifications of mental pathology.
  • Phrenology: the human and animal brain, the location of its functions according to the principles of phrenology, and personalia of phrenologists. Photographs, drawings and newsletters.
  • Phrenology: the human and animal brain, the location of its functions according to the principles of phrenology, and personalia of phrenologists. Photographs, drawings and newsletters.
  • Phrenology: the human and animal brain, the location of its functions according to the principles of phrenology, and personalia of phrenologists. Photographs, drawings and newsletters.
  • Twelve stages in the sequence from the head of a frog to the head of a primitive man. Coloured etchings by Christian von Mechel after J.C. Lavater, 1797.
  • A baby with an encephalocele lying on a bed. Photographs by F.A. Hudson, 1869.
  • A baby with an encephalocele lying on a bed. Photographs by F.A. Hudson, 1869.
  • A baby with an encephalocele lying on a bed. Photographs by F.A. Hudson, 1869.
  • Twelve stages in the sequence from the head of a primitive man to the head of the Apollo Belvedere. Coloured etchings by Christian von Mechel after Lavater, 1797.
  • A baby with an encephalocele lying on a bed. Photographs by F.A. Hudson, 1869.
  • Head of the Apollo Belvedere. Stipple engraving by J.L. Anspach after G.F. Reverdin.