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  • Theatre Royal, Haymarket, made perfectly warm by a powerful air stove in the centre of the pit : on Friday evening, March 10, 1820, and every Monday, Wednesday & Friday, during Lent : Lloyd's dioastrodoxon, the largest and most magnificent orrery in the British Empire and the only transparent orrery ever yet offered to the public.
  • Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old from the Caribbee islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.41, Strand, near Messrs. Couts & Co. bankers : he is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the works of God, being beautifully covered by a diversity of spots of the most beautiful black and transparent brown and white.
  • A further discovery of bees. Treating of the nature, government, generation and preservation of the bee. With the experiments and improvements arising from the keeping them in transparent boxes, instead of straw-hives. Also proper directions (to all such as keep bees) as well to prevent their robbing in straw-hives, as their killing in the colonies / By Moses Rusden. Pub. by His Majesties especial command, and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham Coll.
  • A further discovery of bees. Treating of the nature, government, generation and preservation of the bee. With the experiments and improvements arising from the keeping them in transparent boxes, instead of straw-hives. Also proper directions (to all such as keep bees) as well to prevent their robbing in straw-hives, as their killing in the colonies / By Moses Rusden. Pub. by His Majesties especial command, and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham Coll.
  • A further discovery of bees. Treating of the nature, government, generation and preservation of the bee. With the experiments and improvements arising from the keeping them in transparent boxes, instead of straw-hives. Also proper directions (to all such as keep bees) as well to prevent their robbing in straw-hives, as their killing in the colonies / By Moses Rusden. Pub. by His Majesties especial command, and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham Coll.
  • Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) larva, LM
  • Corneal epithelium showing desmosomes - TEM
  • Collagen fibrils in the corneal stroma
  • Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Aquarius. Coloured engraving.
  • Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Lynx. Coloured engraving by S. Hall.
  • Astronomy: signs of the zodiac, Auriga. Coloured engraving by S. Hall.
  • Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Aquarius. Coloured engraving.
  • Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Aquarius. Coloured engraving by S. Hall.
  • The death of Napoleon Bonaparte. Watercolour.
  • Astrology: constellations, Hercules. Coloured engraving by S. Hall, 1825.
  • Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Taurus. Coloured engraving by S. Hall.
  • Astrology: various constellations. Coloured engraving by S. Hall.
  • Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Pisces. Coloured engraving by S. Hall.
  • The lighthouse of Genoa at night; a ship and three men in the foreground. Aquatint by H. Merke after Serres, 16 March 1800.
  • Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Sagittarius. Coloured engraving by S. Hall.
  • Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Cancer. Coloured engraving by S. Hall.
  • Astrology: signs of the zodiac, Gemini. Coloured engraving by S. Hall.
  • Basilica of Saint Peter, Vatican: the church and the colonnade, lit by lamps at night. Coloured etching.
  • The forge of a blacksmith: smiths at work, attended by a woman with a child on her lap and two dogs at her feet. Watercolour, ca. 1820.
  • Saint Athanasius. Coloured stipple engraving after W. Hamilton.
  • Wellcome Exhibition: Prehistoric man in health and disease.
  • Astronomy: the phases of the Moon. Coloured engraving with tracing paper by J. Emslie, c.1850.
  • Astronomy: a diagram of the phases of the moon. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: the phases of the Moon. Coloured engraving with tracing paper by J. Emslie, c.1850.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.