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  • Samuel Cartwright. Chalk drawing, 1849, attributed to T. Landseer.
  • Whittington's Almshouses, Highgate, London: facade. Etching by T. Dale after T.H. Shepherd, 1827.
  • Joseph Lister giving thanks for a testimonial and portrait presented to him at King's College Hospital, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1895. Process print after A.S. Boyd, 1895.
  • Higham-Ferrers College, Northampton, England. Etching by S. & N. Buck, 1729.
  • Tradescantia 'Concorde Grape'
  • Heuchera 'Silver Scrolls'
  • Westringia fruticosa 'Variegata'
  • Tradescantia 'Concorde Grape'
  • Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver'
  • Carthamus tinctorius L. Asteraceae. Safe Flower, False Saffron - Distribution: W. Asia. Dioscorides (in Beck, 2003) notes the seeds as a purgative, but also advises it made up with 30 figs, which must have helped. Gerard (1640) calls it Atractylis flore luteo the yellow distaffe thistle. and follows Dioscorides in its uses, but does get the reader confused with Cnicus benedictus, calling both plants 'wild bastard saffron'. Culpeper makes no mention of it in his early works, but later (1826) have the following: ‘Wild Saffon, or Saf-flower ... accounted a pretty strong cathartic [causing diarrhoea and vomiting], evacuating tough viscid phlegm, both upwards and downwards, and by that means is said to clear the lungs, and help the phthisic [now equated with tuberculosis]. It is likewise serviceable against the jaundice
  • William Harvey demonstrating the palpitations of the foetal heart of a deer to Charles I. Engraving by H. Lemon, 1851, after an oil painting by R. Hannah, 1848.
  • William Harvey demonstrating the palpitations of the foetal heart of a deer to Charles I. Engraving by H. Lemon, 1851, after an oil painting by R. Hannah, 1848.
  • Rhododendron yakushuminum 'Grumpy'
  • Rhododendron yakushimanum 'Grumpy'
  • Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
  • The name "H. Cline"; the outline of a femur; and studs. Relief etchings by Henry Cline, 1784/1811.
  • The name "H. Cline"; the outline of a femur; and studs. Relief etchings by Henry Cline, 1784/1811.
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • The name "H. Cline"; the outline of a femur; and studs. Relief etchings by Henry Cline, 1784/1811.
  • By permission of the ... Trustees of the Cottonian Library : this plate being a correct copy of King John's Great Charter taken from an original now remaining in the Cottonian Library, is to them most humbly dedicated by their most dutiful, and most obedient, humble servant, J. Pine.
  • Wooden bed behind wooden frame in Bathurst, Gambia. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Yonnibana, Sierra Leone. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • A street in Freetown, Sierra Leone: the buildings separated from the street by a ditch, with a wooden plank to connect them. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Men with cattle, pulling a cart with an incinerator on it. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Water supply. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Samples of fish and a shrimp pinned down and numbered. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Wooden building. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Drain running through a street in Bathurst, Gambia. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • A building by water, Freetown. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Well designed for public use in a street in Bathurst, Gambia. Photograph, c. 1911.