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  • A seated Greek woman on an obstetrical stool being held in position by her husband while giving birth aided by a midwife, another attendant dresses the first baby. Line engraving by A. Tardieu after N. Maréchal.
  • A seated Greek woman on an obstetrical stool being held in position by her husband while giving birth aided by a midwife, another attendant dresses the first baby. Line engraving by A. Tardieu after N. Maréchal.
  • A female ostrich (Struthio camelus). Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A monkey (simia apella) walking past its own portrait engraved on stone. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A mandrill (large W. African baboon). Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A panther. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • An Egyptian goose walking on and surrounded by slabs of stone inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • Two zebus (bos indicus), one kneeling, one standing. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • Two agoutis or cavies meeting under the branch of a fruit tree. Etching by S. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A civet or skunk walking past a slab of stone on which its image is engraved. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A lemur climbing up an block of stone holding a fruit in its left hand. Etching by S. Miger, ca. 1808 after N. Maréchal.
  • An Egyptian mongoose (ichneumon), standing on a disembowelled crocodile with the crocodile's destroyed eggs nearby. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A hyena is standing next to plate bearing its image and a skull and bones of a hyena skeleton. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A rhesus monkey advancing towards some fruit on a table. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A serval (felis serval). Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • Above, an Indian elephant; below, an African elephant cow suckled by its young. Coloured etching by S. Milne after Captain T. Brown and N. Maréchal.
  • Above, a Bactrian camel; below, a dromedary. Coloured etching by W. Warwick after Captain T. Brown and N. Maréchal.
  • A male ostrich (Struthio camelus). Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A polar bear standing on an ice floe in the Arctic sea. Etching by S. C. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.
  • A cassowary walking next to a display of its feathers and a skeletal foot. Etching by S. Miger, ca. 1808, after N. Maréchal.