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  • Trephination, preparation of medicines from raw materials, a skeleton, a muscleman and a portrait of A. Paré. Line engraving.
  • Nepal; foot transport in the Khumbu, 1986. A young Sherpa takes a 'breather' by resting his load on a walking staff. Sherpas carry enormously heavy loads on their backs and many of the raw materials and goods which move through the Khumbu are transported in this way. The tree on the right of the picture is a Rhododendron aboreum which grows to fifteen metres and bears the national flower of Nepal. Photographed near Lukla (altitude 28287 metres).
  • Calcination of raw material. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue / Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ; by authority of the Royal Commission.
  • Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue / Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ; by authority of the Royal Commission.
  • Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue / Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ; by authority of the Royal Commission.
  • Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue / Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ; by authority of the Royal Commission.
  • A pharmacy. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700 (?).
  • A pharmacy. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700 (?).
  • A pharmacy. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700 (?).
  • A pharmacy. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700 (?).
  • A pharmacy. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700 (?).
  • A pharmacy. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700 (?).
  • Postcard; poor children, Croydon, England.
  • Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Cross-section through a cluster of maize leaves, LM.