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  • East London, South Africa: part of the Buffalo River. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • East London, South Africa: a jetty and buildings near the mouth of the Buffalo River. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Somerset East, South Africa: a street. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Metro mental health service : for lesbian, gay and bisexual people across South East London / Metro.
  • Metro mental health service : for lesbian, gay and bisexual people across South East London / Metro.
  • Kimberley, South Africa: Mrs James Currey, the wife of the Manager of the London and South African Exploration Company. 1896.
  • The Cruciform Building, University College Hospital, London: perspective from the south-east. Colour lithograph. 190-.
  • Thunbergia alata Sims Acanthaceae. Black-eyed Susan. Tender, perennial herbaceous climbing plant. Distribution: East Africa. Named for Carl Peter (Pehr or Per) Thunberg (1743-1828), doctor, botanist, student of Linnaeus who collected plants in Japan, Sri Lanka and South Africa. He published Flora Japonica (1784)
  • Coldbath Fields Prison, London: view from the north west to the south east, with St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Engraving, 1798.
  • Coldbath Fields Prison, London: view from the north west to the south east, with St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Engraving, 1798.
  • Pelargonium tricuspidatum L'Her. Geraniaceae Distribution: South Africa. Mainly used to produce aromatic oils. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Services at the Positive Place : Winter 1994/95 : a centre in South East London for the support and care of people affected by HIV and AIDS / The Positive Place.
  • Services at the Positive Place : Winter 1994/95 : a centre in South East London for the support and care of people affected by HIV and AIDS / The Positive Place.
  • Services at the Positive Place : Winter 1994/95 : a centre in South East London for the support and care of people affected by HIV and AIDS / The Positive Place.
  • Services at the Positive Place : Winter 1994/95 : a centre in South East London for the support and care of people affected by HIV and AIDS / The Positive Place.
  • Services at the Positive Place : Winter 1994/95 : a centre in South East London for the support and care of people affected by HIV and AIDS / The Positive Place.
  • Services at the Positive Place : Winter 1994/95 : a centre in South East London for the support and care of people affected by HIV and AIDS / The Positive Place.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a south-east view and a bird's-eye view. Engraving by J. Green after S. Wale, 1761.
  • Boer War: Queen Alexandra at Devonshire House, London, presenting war medals to the nurses of the Imperial Yeomanry hospital, South Africa. Pen and ink drawing by O. Paque, 1902.
  • Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : An account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the West, through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast / [James Johnston].
  • Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : An account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the West, through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast / [James Johnston].
  • Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : An account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the West, through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast / [James Johnston].
  • Watsonia pillansii L.Bolus Iridaceae Bugle lily, Distribution: South Africa. Named for Sir William Watson (1715-1787), British botanist and physician, sometime censor at the Royal College of Physicians, London. No medicinal uses. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Watsonia pillansii L.Bolus Iridaceae Bugle lily, Distribution: South Africa. Named for Sir William Watson (1715-1787), British botanist and physician, sometime censor at the Royal College of Physicians, London. No medicinal uses. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Dierama pulcherrimum Baker Iridaceae. Angel's Fishing rods, African harebell.. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: South Africa. Said to be used in South African Muthi medicine, but no references found other than it being grown at the Medicinal Garden of the University of Washington and the Royal College of Physicians, London. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Haemanthus albiflos Jacq. Amaryllidaceae. Paintbrush plant. Distribution: South Africa. Used as a cough medicine and as a charm to ward off lightning (Pooley, 1998). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A map of London, with a scale and north point: from Greenwich to Hammersmith east-west, and from Highgate to Stockwell north-south. Wood engraving by J. Dower after himself, 1862.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.