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  • Lobelia cardinalis L Campanulaceae Cardinal lobelia Distribution: Americas, Colombia to south-eastern Canada. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. It was introduced from Virginia to John Parkinson in England by John Newton (1580-1647) a surgeon of Colyton (aka Colliton), Devon, who travelled to Virginia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Lobelia tupa L Campanulaceae Tabaco del Diablo [Devil's tobacco]. Distribution: Central Chile. Dried leaves are smoked as a hallucinogen by the Mapuchu Indians of Chile. It was also used as a respiratory stimulant. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Four buildings in Chelsea: the Royal Hospital, St Luke's Church, the Old Church, and the Royal Military Asylum. Coloured lithographs.
  • Deaf actors using sign language perform a play about Don Guzman to an audience in St Saviour's church hall, London. Wood engraving by G. Durand, 1877.
  • Two women comforting a boy while a monk sits beside in despair. Wood engraving after Jessie MacGregor, 1872.
  • Entertainment ephemera. Box 1.
  • Saint Jerome. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?), after A. Dürer.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Lithograph after Bernhardinus Milnet.
  • Neottia ovata plus Cantharis rufipes beetle
  • Tigridia pavonia (L.f.)DC. Iridaceae Distribution: Peru. These colourful, tulip-like flowers were named by De Candolle for Joseph (José) Pavón Jiménez (1754-1840), the Spanish pharmacist/botanist who accompanied Hipólito Ruiz and Joseph Dombey on their epic botanising in Peru and Chile (1777-1788) in search of quinine and medicinal plants. On the 8th April 1777, King Carlos III of Spain gave permission for the three botanists and two artists to travel from Spain to America to study the flora of Peru and Chile, then Spanish dominions. Initially around Lima, and then further afield, they collected plants which their artists painted
  • Franco-Prussian War: two nurses treating a wounded German soldier on the battlefield. Wood engraving by W. Hollidge after Princess Louise.