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  • A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite / by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directory of the Missionary Society ; published for the benefit of the Society.
  • We, the court of examiners, chosen and appointed by the master, wardens and assistants of the Society of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries of the City of London in pursuance of a certain Act of Parliament passed in the 55th year of the reign of his majesty King George the third entitled an Act for the better regulating the practice of apothecaries throughout England and Wales, do hereby by virtue of the power & authority invested by the said Act certify that ... has been by us carefully and deliberately examined as to his skills & abilities in the science & practice of medicine ... duly qualified as an apothecary.
  • Annual science exhibition / American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated societies.
  • Annual science exhibition / American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated societies.
  • Annual science exhibition / American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated societies.
  • Annual science exhibition / American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated societies.
  • Memoirs for a natural history of animals. Containing the anatomical descriptions of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris / Englished by Alexander Pitfeild [!] ... To which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, published by the same Academy, and Englished by Richard Waller.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • John Dalton shaking hands with Gerrit Moll, 1834, thanking him for defending British science. Coloured etching by Crichton.
  • John Dalton shaking hands with Gerrit Moll, 1834, thanking him for defending British science. Coloured etching by Crichton.
  • Members of the British Association playing at phrenology on board a ship on its way to South Africa. Photograph by J.T. Bottomley, 1905.
  • Kenya: Mombasa. Photograph by Hon. Geoffrey L. Parsons, 1905.
  • South Africa: African people at Chief Latumba's kraal near Zwarkop. Photograph by Ernest Maylard, 1905.
  • Members of the British Association on their way to South Africa. Photograph by Mrs C. Henderson, 1905.
  • South Africa: an African kraal hut. Photograph by Prof. Simpson, 1905.
  • Members of the British Association on their way to South Africa. Photograph by H. Yule Oldham, 1905.
  • South Africa: the Zambezi river. Photograph by Prof. W.B. Scott, 1905.
  • Zimbabwe: people and a flag-covered train at the opening of Victoria Bridge. Photograph by J. Lomas, 1905.
  • Members of the British Association on their way to South Africa. Photograph by J.T. Bottomley, 1905.
  • Members of the British Association playing cat's cradle on board a ship on its way to South Africa. Photograph by J.T. Bottomley, 1905.
  • South Africa: two men and an ostrich beside a railway carriage. Photograph by Miss Stower, 1905.
  • Zimbabwe: an African man standing in front of a hut, in a village near Umtali. Photograph by Sir William Crookes, 1905.
  • Colenso, South Africa: African kraal huts. Photograph by Hon. Geoffrey L. Parsons, 1905.
  • Zimbabwe: members of the British Association viewing ancient ruins at Umtali. Photograph by Sir William Crookes, 1905.
  • South Africa: a kopje (a large rock outcropping). 1905.
  • Zimbabwe: a member of the British Association sitting in a palm ravine. Photograph by Hon. Geoffrey L. Parsons, 1905.
  • South Africa: a monument to Cecil Rhodes. Photograph by Sir William Crookes, 1905.
  • South Africa: African workers at a farm near Stellenbosch. Photograph by Mrs Ada Cleland, 1905.
  • Umtali, Zimbabwe: two African boys stirring a cooking pot. Photograph by J. Lomas, 1905.
  • South Africa: members of the British Association climbing in the Matoppos hills. Photograph by Sir William Crookes, 1905.