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  • Explorers: James Cook, Bougainville, Dumont d'Urville, and La Pérouse. Engraving.
  • Mimeograph [?]: 'The explorers having got wet...'
  • Arabs visiting Kwirara in Africa; Arab and European explorers shaking hands. Lithograph.
  • Lake Ngami: Africans and European explorers on its bank. Wood engraving by J.W. Whymper after A. Rider.
  • A British sailor and an exotic figure from 'Scenes of European explorers in Africa, native Africans, and African landscapes'
  • Children being instructed in the exploits of famous explorers such as Columbus and Cook, whose portraits are shown in roundels. Etching by R. Pollard after Dodd, 17--.
  • Connect : Talk. Explore. Resolve / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Connect : Talk. Explore. Resolve / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Connect : Talk. Explore. Resolve / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Connect : Talk. Explore. Resolve / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Connect : Talk. Explore. Resolve / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Agnes Deans Cameron, the Arctic explorer, feeding a titbit to her pug dog. Photograph, ca. 1911.
  • Agnes Deans Cameron, the explorer, posing with Asian and African artefacts, including a Buddha. Photograph, ca. 1911.
  • Camassia leichtlinii (Baker)S.Watson Hyacinthaceae. Great Camas, Quamash. The species was named for Maximillian Leichtlin (1831-1910 of Baden , Germany, bulb enthusiast who corresponded with J.G. Baker at Kew. Bulbous herb. Distribution: North America. The bulbs of Camassia species were eaten by the Native Americans, the Nez Perce, after cooking by steaming for a day - which suggests they may be poisonous raw. They gave them to the American explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clerk, on their expedition (1804-1806) when they ran out of food. The bulbs of the similar looking 'Death camus', Toxicoscordion venenosum have been fatal when ingested by mistake (RBG Kew on-line). Steroidal saponins, which are precursors in the manufacture of steroids and cytotoxic activity has been detected in the sap of the bulbs. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Surgery, UK. Mastoid exploration
  • Surgery, UK. Mastoid exploration
  • Surgery, UK. Mastoid exploration
  • Surgery, UK. Mastoid exploration
  • Surgery, UK. Mastoid exploration
  • Surgery, UK. Mastoid exploration
  • Chrysalis, paintings exploring women in science
  • Chrysalis, paintings exploring women in science
  • Exploring eggs / British Egg Information Service.
  • Exploring eggs / British Egg Information Service.
  • Exploring eggs / British Egg Information Service.
  • The romance of exploration and emergency first-aid...
  • Hidden Learning : Chrysallis, paintings exploring women in science.
  • Letter from Bolivar in Lima, to Jose gaspar Rodriguez Francia, dictator of Paraguay, asking for the release o fhis good friend the explorer and botanist Aime Jacques Bonpland (1773 - 1858).
  • Letter from Bolivar in Lima, to Jose gaspar Rodriguez Francia, dictator of Paraguay, asking for the release o fhis good friend the explorer and botanist Aime Jacques Bonpland (1773 - 1858).
  • Letter from Bolívar in Lima, to José Gaspar Rodríguez Francia, dictator of Paraguay, asking for the release of his good friend the explorer and botanist Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (1773 - 1858).