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  • Above, a Hoopoe; below, two Syrian Doves. Coloured chalk lithograph.
  • Waterfront, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • A Bay/Brown's neck - whorls
  • Waterfront, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Anterior neural plate, mouse
  • Andry de Boisregard, fanciful animal, Vers Solitaires 1718
  • Saint Silvester Gozzolini: he receives communion from the Virgin (centre); his miracles (border around). Coloured engraving by G. Lauro, 1603, after D. Fortunato Muzio.
  • The gluteus muscles of the left side of the body. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: the grant of arms and motto. Coloured lithograph after J. Anstis.
  • Human cancer cell
  • In arduis fidelis : with best wishes for Christmas and the new year from / Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • In arduis fidelis : with best wishes for Christmas and the new year from / Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Cell bodies and axons of the mesencephalic
  • The nest and clutch of eggs of a wren. Wood engraving, ca. 1850.
  • Magnes siue de arte magnetica opvs tripartitvm. Quo praeterqvam qvod vniversa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus artibus et scientijs vsus noua methodo explicetur, è viribus quoque et prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis et animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturæ arcana per physica, medica, chymica et mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Magnes siue de arte magnetica opvs tripartitvm. Quo praeterqvam qvod vniversa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus artibus et scientijs vsus noua methodo explicetur, è viribus quoque et prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis et animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturæ arcana per physica, medica, chymica et mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Magnes siue de arte magnetica opvs tripartitvm. Quo praeterqvam qvod vniversa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus artibus et scientijs vsus noua methodo explicetur, è viribus quoque et prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis et animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturæ arcana per physica, medica, chymica et mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Magnes siue de arte magnetica opvs tripartitvm. Quo praeterqvam qvod vniversa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus artibus et scientijs vsus noua methodo explicetur, è viribus quoque et prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis et animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturæ arcana per physica, medica, chymica et mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Magnes siue de arte magnetica opvs tripartitvm. Quo praeterqvam qvod vniversa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus artibus et scientijs vsus noua methodo explicetur, è viribus quoque et prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis et animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturæ arcana per physica, medica, chymica et mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Magnes siue de arte magnetica opvs tripartitvm. Quo praeterqvam qvod vniversa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus artibus et scientijs vsus noua methodo explicetur, è viribus quoque et prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis et animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturæ arcana per physica, medica, chymica et mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur / [Athanasius Kircher].
  • Acumoxa chart: Location of the foot san li point, Chinese
  • Four groups of families representing native North Americans' united support against HIV/AIDS by the Chiefs of Ontario. Colour lithograph.
  • Cockatoo (calatuo gacaerica)
  • Five British wild flowers, including broomrape (Orobanche caerulea), vervain (Verbena officinalis) and toothwort (Lathraea squamaria). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
  • A title page (right) embellished with illustration of people ascending steep cliffs and a book plate (left) of four birds. Engravings by S. Davenport, ca. 1821.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Paradise flycatcher
  • A tree populated by six different specimen of the genus Nasalis (apes). Coloured etching by S. Milne.
  • Seven grasses including fescues (Festuca species), dog's tail grass (Cynosurus cristatus), meadow grasses (Poa species) and ryegrass (Lolium species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Peacock
  • Members of a friendly society compensating one of its members for ill-health. Pen and ink and watercolour, c. 1807.