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  • Seven plants, including a lobster-claw flower and two orchids: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Double claw (Martynia annua L.): entire flowering plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Fossil teeth of mammals: hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, Palaeotherium medium, Anoplotherium, Megalonyx (tooth and claw). Coloured etching by S. Springsguth, 1833.
  • A horned devil is writing the word address with his claw. Wood engraving by S.M. Slader after T. Landseer, ca. 1830.
  • A deadly claw holding a slate listing the number of pedestrians killed or injured in traffic accidents in Germany in 1929. Colour lithograph by V. Zietara, ca. 1930.
  • Ma-hos-kah (White Cloud), a chief of the Iowa tribe, with facial tattooes and a bear's claw necklace. Coloured lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1837.
  • Four giant hands clawing at a tiny person. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Four giant hands clawing at a tiny person. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Shaumonekusse, a chief of the Oto (Otoe) tribe, wearing a crown hair piece with horns, a bear-claw necklace and a medallion. Coloured lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1833.
  • Shaumonekusse, a chief of the Oto (Otoe) tribe, wearing a crown hair piece with horns, a bear-claw necklace and a medallion. Colour lithograph by C. G. Childs after C. B. King, 1833.
  • Monday, May 4th, and until further notice : dive for life ... The Irish Giant, Captain Murphy, standing nearly 8ft. high, Lobster Claw Lady ... tattooing ... / Wonderland, Whitechapel Road (next St. Mary's station).
  • Monday, May 4th, and until further notice : dive for life ... The Irish Giant, Captain Murphy, standing nearly 8ft. high, Lobster Claw Lady ... tattooing ... / Wonderland, Whitechapel Road (next St. Mary's station).
  • Six crustaceans, including the Hermit lobster, the Norway lobster and the Long-clawed lobster. Engraving by J. Record.
  • People chatting against a wall bearing graffiti of the skeletal figure of death reaching out to them with clawed hands; an advertisement for the New York City Department of Health AIDS Information helpline. Colour lithograph by Susan Wilcox.
  • A compilation of hunting and trapping implements, arranged around a shell-shaped ornament into which a gin-trapped feline is clawing in its death-throes; including baits and decoys as well as birds of prey used for hunting. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Beetle leg tip, microphotograph
  • Mole skull and paw showing 6th digit, X-ray
  • Mite infested chicken legs
  • Pubic louse, SEM
  • Drosophila leg, tarsus, SEM
  • Drosophila leg, tarsus, SEM
  • Drosophila leg, tarsus, SEM
  • Spider (Unknown sp.)
  • Head of a mealworm, SEM
  • Head of a mealworm, SEM
  • Histoires Prodigieuses; the Monster of Cracow
  • Head louse, SEM
  • Dissected hind paw (lateral or side view), canine
  • Dissected hind paw (medial or side view), canine
  • Digital extensors of the hindlimb (dorsal view), canine