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  • Four baboons: pigtailed baboon, black baboon, mandrill, and magot. Coloured etching by T. Landseer.
  • Twelve specimen of the class Mammalia, includingman, chimpanzee, baboons and monkeys. Engraving.
  • A baboon walking on all fours. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A great baboon sitting on the ground holding a stick. Etching by P. Mazell.
  • Left, a chimpanzee; right, a mandrill (african baboon). Reproduction of an etching by F. Lüdecke.
  • A baboon sitting on a stone holding a fruit in its right hand. Etching by Heath.
  • A mandrill (large W. African baboon). Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • Five apes: orangutan, Barbary ape, baboon, leonine monkey and varied monkey. Etching by J. Scott, ca. 1808.
  • Six different species of baboon are shown in their natural habitat. Coloured etching by S. Milne and Turvey.
  • A baboon sitting on the ground with a smoking pipe and tankard. Etching with stipple by W. Panormo after himself.
  • An ape in military attire, sitting astride a hog, confronts a baboon, also in military attire, who sits astride a bear. Engraving by F. Barlow, ca. 1679/1680.
  • An ape in military attire, sitting astride a hog, confronts a baboon, also in military attire, who sits astride a bear. Engraving by F. Barlow, ca. 1679/1680.
  • Above, a female mandrill and a great mandrill; middle, a young mandrill and a little baboon; below, a drill mandrill and a young drill mandrill. Coloured etching by S. Milne and Turvey.
  • [Leaflet advertising exhibition of the curious history of Julia Pastrana, "The Baboon Lady" and the live two-in-one, or, double-bodied boy at Dr. Kahn's Museum. The boy is shown in the illustration. Julia Pastrana was also giving 'levees' at the Regent Gallery 3 times a day].
  • [Leaflet advertising exhibition of the curious history of Julia Pastrana, "The Baboon Lady" and the live two-in-one, or, double-bodied boy at Dr. Kahn's Museum. The boy is shown in the illustration. Julia Pastrana was also giving 'levees' at the Regent Gallery 3 times a day].
  • The first DNA fingerprint. The first three lanes contain DNA from a woman, her mother and her father respectively. Lanes 4 - 11 contain DNA from assorted other species including mouse, baboon, lemur, cow, grey seal and tobacco (last lane). The DNA probe used in this experiment detected tandomly repeated short stretches of DNA called minisatellites whose length varies between individuals.
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
  • Phrenological chart with portraits of historical figures and illustrations of skulls exhibiting racial characteristics. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley, authored by C. Donovan, c. 1850.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • A monkey in elegant costume is addressing a group of wild monkeys under a tree. Engraving by B.P. Gibbon after E. H. Landseer.
  • A monkey in elegant costume is addressing a group of wild monkeys under a tree. Engraving after E. H. Landseer.