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  • Cobham Park, England: three kangaroos. Etching by A.A. Park after W. Panormo.
  • A group of Red kangaroos on the move. Colour reproduction of a painting by W Kuhnert.
  • A family of kangaroos relaxing on a grassy bank with koalas and other marsupials nearby. Coloured etching.
  • Australian grass trees (Xanthorrhoea species) with red kangaroos (Macropus laniger) at Yankalilla. Coloured lithograph by J. W. Giles, c. 1846, after G. F. Angas.
  • Seven different specimen of kangaroos, including a rabbit-eared perameles, are shown with their young in their natural habitat. Coloured etching by J. S. Murdoch after J. Stewart.
  • Above, fishermen hunting a spermwhale; middle, indigenous huntsmen hunting kangaroos; below, an island populated by petrels, sea elephants and sea lions. Wood engraving by N. Knilling after H. Leutemann.
  • A kangaroo. Etching.
  • A kangaroo, a kangaroo-rat and details of their jaws. Etching by P. Mazell.
  • A kangaroo. Etching by P. Mazell.
  • A kangaroo. Etching by J. Le Keux.
  • A kangaroo jumping. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A kangaroo jumping. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A kangaroo jumping. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A kangaroo jumping. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A kangaroo walking and jumping. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Kangaroo and vulpine opossum skulls: side views. Etching by P. Mazell, 1789.
  • A kangaroo, seen in profile. Chromolithograph by F. Gerasch after A. Gerasch, 1860/1880?.
  • Australia: above, a kangaroo; below, a common ringtail possum. Etching by C. Grignion, ca. 1788.
  • Kangaroo paw (Anigozanthos rufa): flowering stem in 2 sections with floral segments. Engraving by C. Dien, c.1798, after P. J. Redouté.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription for a kangaroo; representing Chamberlain's advocacy of the Commonwealth of Australia. Wood engraving by J. Swain after Sir J. Tenniel, 1900.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by "Two children united from the umbilical chord to the top of the breast bone", born January 1833 and being exhibited at 28 High Street, Bloomsbury, London with The Matchless Lamb (1 head, 2 bodies) and the Wonderful Kangaroo Pig (no fore legs)].
  • Solanum laciniatum Aiton Solanaceae. Kangaroo Apple. Evergreen shrub. Distribution: New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. It contains steroidal saponins that can be converted into steroids, including progesterone, oestrogens, cortisone, prednisolone etc. In 1943, Professor Russell Marker discovered a method of obtaining an unsaturated steroidal saponine, diosogenin, from Mexican yam (Dioscorea mexicana), which can easily and cheaply be converted into steroids, such as prednisone and progesterone, reducing the price of steroid production to a fraction (0.5%) of its former cost. For 20 years drug companies showed little interest, and it was only as a result of Professor Marker forming his own company, and the concerted efforts of several gynaecologists, physiologists and birth-control advocates, that the contraceptive pill was ‘born’ in 1960. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A young marsupial. Coloured etching.
  • Thirteen different mammals ranging from apes, rodents and marsupials to a whale. Coloured lithograph.
  • Rev. F. O. Morris, All the article of the Da
  • Mullett's exhibition of living wonders has just arrived in town : the English giant girl miss Emma Harrington, aged 9 years and 3 month ; weighs the amazing weight of 14 stone ...
  • An ill marsupial creature with a human head and long tail is seated in a chair being treated by two nurses; representing Daniel O'Connell's role in the County Carlow election of 1835. Coloured lithograph by R. Seymour, 1835.
  • Nature's gift to mankind / The Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
  • Nature's gift to mankind / The Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
  • Nature's gift to mankind / The Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.