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  • The martyrdom of Ignatius Bishop of Antioch: Ignatius is shown in an arena about to be devoured by lions, bears and tigers. Etching.
  • A street entertainer makes two sloth bears on a lead, dance to music as part of an act. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Materia medica from a Chinese apothecary's shop: heads and beaks of birds, hoofs and legs of other animals and bears' feet in lines on the ground. Photograph.
  • Two polar bears meet near the North Pole: despite the cold, the female bear is wearing an off-the-shoulder dress, which the male bear attributes to high tolerance of cold among northern females. Lithograph by CMK (?).
  • Specimen sheet of embossed type for the blind, which bears an extract from Psalm CXIX. v.17,18 and a price list for other scriptures available in the same format.
  • Two children are running towards a sheep with a crow on its back while an eagle bears a lamb in its claws in the sky above; illustration of a fable by Aesop. Etching.
  • Two children are running towards a sheep with a crow on its back while an eagle in the sky above bears a lamb in its claws. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
  • A cossack on horseback, holding a spear; a wolf; instruments of serfdom; polar bears on icebergs; and an imperial eagle in the sky; representing the Russian Empire. Wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin.
  • Above, a pair of bears with two cubs on a crag of a mountain with one bear roaring as one cub is killed by an arrow. Below, a pack of jackals running under the mountain crag leaving bones behind. Coloured chalk lithograph.
  • Elisha on his way to Bethel is taunted for his baldness by small boys: he curses them, and two she-bears come out of the woods and kill the boys. Engraving by C. Ryckemans after P. de Jode.
  • A woman lying down receiving a blood transfusion from a blood bag that has apparently not been tested for HIV since it bears the skeletal face of death; an AIDS prevention advertisement in Maldivian. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Phrenological snuff-box. The lid bears different views of the skull (anterior and lateral) with the Gall-Spurzheim areas marked out into 27 organs, each numbered. The key to these numbers is on the bottom of the box.
  • Instruments from the 2nd century A.D. of the Gallo-Roman oculist Gaius Firmius Severus found in a tomb in Rheims, in 1854. The seal bears the oculist's name and his collyrium or eye-salve- diasmyrnes, prepared from myrrh.
  • A family of teddy bears lying beneath blankets dreaming of enjoying healthy family activities together including going on a trip to Disneyland; advertisement for family planning and safer sex to prevent AIDS by the Office of Family Planning, Hawaii Department of Health. Colour lithograph by June Sakutori.
  • Three telephone cards bearing the designs of artists: one bears a clown holding a red heart shaped apple and signed "Tobiasse", another 3 hearts signed "Sosno '97", and the third bearing the words "varde [?] retro virus" and signed "Ben 97"; advertisements for the SIDA Info Service supported by Caisse d'Epargne Cote d'Azur, Durex, Cryptone and NRJ [radio station]. Colour lithograph, 1997.
  • A silver condom packet emerging out of a small white bag attached to a key ring with the comment that your condom is safe with your keys; the bag bears an illustration of a running condom holding an umbrella; an advertisement for safe sex by the Ministère de la Santé in association with World AIDS Day 1996. Colour lithograph.
  • Aralia spinosa L. Araliaceae. Devil's walking stick, Prickly ash, Hercules' club. Tree. Distribution: Eastern North America. Contact with sap causes skin irritation, raw berries mildly toxic to humans, causing diarrhoea and vomiting. Eaten by bears. Used medicinally by Native Americans for a variety of conditions. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Acanthus spinosus L. Acanthaceae. Bears breeches. Distribution: Southern Europe to Western Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for spiny leaves. Dioscorides recommended the roots applied for inflammation and spasms, and -when drunk- to promote urine, check diarrhoea, and for phthysis, ruptures and convulsions. The leaves are the model for those at the top of Corinthian columns. Tetraglycosides isolated from the plant show cytotoxicity in sea urchin eggs and crown gall tumour on potato disks. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Seal of St Giles of Solop. it bears the figure of a Hind, by whose milk St Giles was supported in his desert. The squarish figure above may have denoted, but on this conjecture we do not insist; the clack-dish or alms basket with a clapper, which lepers were obliged to employ in begging charity standing "afar off", lest their touch should pollute the benevolent.
  • Nepal; foot transport in the Khumbu, 1986. A young Sherpa takes a 'breather' by resting his load on a walking staff. Sherpas carry enormously heavy loads on their backs and many of the raw materials and goods which move through the Khumbu are transported in this way. The tree on the right of the picture is a Rhododendron aboreum which grows to fifteen metres and bears the national flower of Nepal. Photographed near Lukla (altitude 28287 metres).
  • Astronomy: a chart of the constellations Great Bear and Little Bear. Engraving.
  • Pharmacy: Bear's grease for hair
  • A white bear (Polar bear) standing on an ice floe. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.
  • Zoological Society of London: a bear clambering up a pole while another bear embraces the pole. Coloured etching.
  • Neolithic rock engraving depicting a bear, Scandinavian.
  • Bear hat. Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn.
  • Astrology: constellations, the Great Bear. Coloured engraving.
  • Bear hat. Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn.
  • Amuletic necklace, Bear claws and red trade beads.
  • Femur of large adult cave bear; Moodie's Paleopathology