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  • The naturalists' miscellany, or, Coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature.
  • The naturalists' miscellany, or, Coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature.
  • Endpapers with marbling effect. In Volume 3 of 'The naturalists' miscellany...' by George Shaw, 1813.
  • Endpapers with marbling effect. In Volume 3 of 'The naturalists' miscellany...' by George Shaw, 1813.
  • Manfredus instructing students in the properties of plants, or discussing plants with other naturalists. Watercolour, 19--.
  • Fig. 2 - A Tagal Naturalist. The phrenological journal, 1871.
  • Johann Reinhold Förster, naturalist and clergyman: portrait. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Charles Étienne Bonnet, the Swiss naturalist and philosopher: profile. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • José Celestino Mutis (1732-1808), Spanish naturalist. Oil painting by R. Cristobal, 1930.
  • Jean-Louis-Armand Quatrefages de Breau, French naturalist: his statue in the public gardens in Vallerangue, France. Photographic postcard, 1900/1910.
  • M0002316: Reproduction of a portrait of Sir John Richardson (1787-1865) F.R.S., Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer
  • M0002316: Reproduction of a portrait of Sir John Richardson (1787-1865) F.R.S., Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer
  • Skeleton of a man, a woman from the Akka tribe and a gorilla (provided by the hunter-naturalist Paul Du Chaillu), displayed in a row. Photograph by Gambier Bolton, 1890.
  • Aimé Bonpland, médecin et naturaliste, explorateur de l'Amérique du Sud : sa vie, son oeuvre, sa correspondance avec un choix de pièces relatives à sa biographie, un portrait et une carte / par le dr E.T. Hamy.
  • The natural history of Selborne / By the late Rev. Gilbert White... To which are added, the naturalist's calendar [by G. White and W. Markwick], miscellaneous observations [with remarks by Mr. Markwick], and poems. [Edited, by J.W. i.e. John White].
  • The natural history of Selborne / By the late Rev. Gilbert White... To which are added, the naturalist's calendar [by G. White and W. Markwick], miscellaneous observations [with remarks by Mr. Markwick], and poems. [Edited, by J.W. i.e. John White].
  • The natural history of Selborne / By the late Rev. Gilbert White... To which are added, the naturalist's calendar [by G. White and W. Markwick], miscellaneous observations [with remarks by Mr. Markwick], and poems. [Edited, by J.W. i.e. John White].
  • Opuscules de physique, animale et végétale / par mr. l'abbé Spallanzani ... Augmentés de ses expériences sur la digestion de l'homme et des animaux, traduits de l'Italien par Jean Senebier ... On y a joint plusieurs lettres relatives à ces opuscules écrites à mr. l'abbé Spallanzani par Mr. Charles Bonnet, et par d'autres naturalistes célebres.
  • Albizia julibrissin Durazz. Fabaceae. Persian silk tree. Called 'shabkhosb' in Persian, meaning 'sleeping tree' as the pinnate leaves close up at night. Tropical tree. Named for Filippo degli Albizzi, an Italian naturalist, who brought seeds from Constantinople to Florence in 1749, and introduced it to European horticulture. The specific epithet comes from the Persian 'gul-i abrisham' which means 'silk flower'. Distribution: South Africa to Ethiopia, Senegal, Madagascar, Asia. Bark is poisonous and emetic and antihelminthic. Various preparations are widely used for numerous conditions and the oxitocic albitocin is abortifacient. However, studies on the seeds and bark of other Albizia species in Africa, demonstrate it is highly toxic, half a kilogram of seeds given to a quarter ton bull, killed it in two hours (Neuwinger, 1996). A useful tree for controlling soil erosion, producing shade in coffee plantations, and as a decorative shade tree in gardens. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Albizia julibrissin Durazz. Fabaceae. Persian silk tree. Called 'shabkhosb' in Persian, meaning 'sleeping tree' as the pinnate leaves close up at night. Tropical tree. Named for Filippo degli Albizzi, an Italian naturalist, who brought seeds from Constantinople to Florence in 1749, and introduced it to European horticulture. The specific epithet comes from the Persian 'gul-i abrisham' which means 'silk flower'. Distribution: South Africa to Ethiopia, Senegal, Madagascar, Asia. Bark is poisonous and emetic and antihelminthic. Various preparations are widely used for numerous conditions and the oxitocic albitocin is abortifacient. However, studies on the seeds and bark of other Albizia species in Africa, demonstrate it is highly toxic, half a kilogram of seeds given to a quarter ton bull, killed it in two hours (Neuwinger, 1996). A useful tree for controlling soil erosion, producing shade in coffee plantations, and as a decorative shade tree in gardens. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis Rubiaceae. Cape jasmine - as erroneously believed to have come from South Africa. Distribution: China. Named for Dr Alexander Garden FRS (1730-1791) Scottish-born physician and naturalist who lived in Charles Town, South Carolina, and corresponded with Linnaeus and many of the botanists of his era. The fruits are used in China both as a source of a yellow dye, and for various unsubstantiated medicinal uses. Other species of Gardenia are found in tropical Africa and the roots and leaves have all manner of putative uses. Gardenia tenuifolia is used as an aphrodisiac, for rickets, diarrhoea, leprosy, gall bladder problems, toothache, liver complaints, diabetes, hypertension, malaria and abdominal complaints. It causes violent vomiting and diarrhoea. It, and other species, are used to poison arrows and to poison fish. Some native, muthi medicine, healers regard Gardenia as a ‘last chance’ medicine, given to patients when all else fails – the patient either dies or recovers (Neuwinger, 1996). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Serratula tinctoria subsp. seoanei (Willk.)M.Lainz Asteraceae. Saw-wort (in the USA called Dyer's plumeless saw-wort). Distribution: Europe. Named after Dr Victor Lopez Seoane (1832-1900) a Spanish naturalist and physician who was Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Natural History in Corunna. He attained a certain infamy in that three of the subspecies of birds which he published as new discoveries were in leaflets dated 1870 and 1891 but were actually published in 1894, the discovery of which rendered two of his discoveries attributable to others (Ferrer, in Ingenium 7:345-377 (2001). This plant was described by Heinrich Willkomm in 1899 as Serratula seoanei, but M. Lainz, in 1979, decided it was merely a subspecies of Serratula tinctoria, a plant described by Linnaeus (1753). Linnaeus based his description on a plant with a woodcut in Dodoens' Pemptades (1583), saying it had pinnate leaves. However, that woodcut is of two different plants, and when re-used by Gerard (1633) he pointed out that Tabernamontanus (1625) had a woodcut of them and a third plant all with leaves varying from just pinnate to entire. Whatever, the leaves on Serratula tinctorius subsp. seoanei are very distinct, but while pinnate the leaflets are exceedingly narrowly and deeply dissected, Gerard (1633) writes that it is 'wonderfully commended to be most singular [useful] for wounds, ruptures, burstings, and such like...' It is a dye plant, containing luteolin, the same yellow dye as is present in Reseda luteola (source of the dye 'weld'). Seoane also has a viper, Vipera seoanei, named after him
  • M0006941: Portrait of Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
  • Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Charles Solander. Line engraving, 1778.
  • A young man visiting a surgeon-apothecary in his workroom, where the proprietor shows him one of his prize natural history specimens. Etching by J. Leech.
  • Fournisseur du Ministère de L'Instruction Publique des Musées, Collèges, Séminaires, Écoles spéciales, etc. / mammifères, oiseaux, reptiles, poissons, insectes, coquilles, plantes, minéraux, roches, fosiles au choix et par collections ... / E. Boubée Fils.
  • Fournisseur du Ministère de L'Instruction Publique des Musées, Collèges, Séminaires, Écoles spéciales, etc. / mammifères, oiseaux, reptiles, poissons, insectes, coquilles, plantes, minéraux, roches, fosiles au choix et par collections ... / E. Boubée Fils.
  • A title-vignette consisiting of various animals, including monkeys, vultures, a lion and an otter forming an ornametal flourished arch over a stream. Wood engraving.
  • Hewett Cottrell Watson. Lithograph, 1839.
  • Paramaribo, Surinam: the room of a natural historian. Watercolour, 1845.