Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp: above, head and shoulders, wearing hat; below, as missionary preaching to Xhosa or Khoi-Khoi people. Line engraving by C. Pye.

Saint Francis Xavier as a missionary with a Chinese woman, an African man, a Native American and an Indian; showing them an image of Christ holding a lamb. Lithograph after C. Mezzana.

Souvenir Programme of the Baptist Missionary Society, Yakusu, Stanleyville, Belgian Congo, produced to celebrate the visit by Prince Charles of Belgian - Reverse - Vive le Prince Regent - Vive La Belgique

Leper settlement, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar: a group portrait of patients in white robes, with an elderly woman (missionary ?); one patient holds up a blackboard bearing a bible verse (in Malagasy ?). Photograph, 1890/1910.

Souvenir Programme of the Baptist Missionary Society, Yakusu, Stanleyville, Belgian Congo, produced to celebrate the visit by Prince Charles of Belgian - inside showing the messages, to the Prince, from the tribes under Belgian control

Atala receiving her last communion from the missionary Père Aubry, while her dog and Chactas are crouching at the end of her camp in a mountain cave. Stipple print with etching by Fortier and J.P. Simon after Jean Baptiste Mallet.

Fargesia rufa T.P.Yi Poaceae. Farges bamboo. Distribution: China. Named, in 1985, after Paul Guillaume Farges (1844-1912), a French missionary and plant collector, who went in 1867 with the Missions Étrangères to north-east Szechuan. He botanised extensively and amassed 4,000 herbarium specimens which he sent back o France. He discovered and sent back seeds of the handkerchief tree, Davidia involucrata, one of which germinated after 18 months. Eighty plants have been named after him. (Cox, 1945

Osmanthus delavayi Franch. Oleaceae Evergreen shrub. Distribution: China. Osmanthus is derived from the Greek for 'fragrant flower', delavayi from its discoverer, the French Missionary with the Missions Étrangères, and plant collector, Pierre Delavay (1834-1895). He sent 200,000 herbarium specimens containing 4000 species including 1,500 new species to Franchet at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. He sent seed of O. delavayi to France (1886), but only one germinated, and all the plants in cultivation until it was recollected 40 years later, arose from this plant (Bretschneider, 1896). The flowers are used to make a tea in China, but the berries (drupes) are not regarded as edible. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Mercy and truth : a record of C.M.S. medical mission work.

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