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  • Two banana plants (Musa species) and a date palm tree. Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
  • H. Sloane, A voyage to the islands Madera, B
  • John Boby, a black man with white markings. Reproduction of an etching, 1803.
  • H. Sloane, Catalogus plantarum quae in insul
  • North and Central America: map. Coloured engraving, 1862.
  • Edward Binns. Watercolour by A.H. Taylor, 1838.
  • Above, three different species of partridges; below, a paca (tailless rodent) and a panther. Coloured etching.
  • H. Sloane, A voyage to the islands Madera, B
  • 4 magnificent essences! / Duckworth & Co.
  • A marble vase placed on a pedestal on top of a sarcophagus; and two other vases. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
  • 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
  • Cap-Haitien, Haiti: the surgery of HMS Bulldog. Watercolour by E.L. Moss, 1865.