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  • Two wading birds with speckled plumage on the shore of a lake. Etching.
  • An aurochs wading the stream in a forest. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Two Japanese fishermen wading in the sea to collect shells. Watercolour, c.1860.
  • Three women wading in a stream gathering leeches. Coloured aquatint by R. Havell, 1814, after G. Walker.
  • A fallow deer, perch and four wading or water birds. Wood engraving by M. U. Sears, 18--.
  • Above, two wading birds (plovers) and a pipe fish; below, a pike, a pilchard and three different pipe fishes. Coloured etching.
  • A ruff and a reeve (male and female wading bird) (Philomachus pugnax) on the shore of a river. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
  • Above, three deer, a fish, a golden plover (wading bird), a hermit crab and two molluscs; below, three crabs and a fish. Etching by Heath.
  • A curlew (wading bird) is standing on the river bank while another one is descending from the air onto the shore. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
  • Complete skeleton of a flamingo (Phoenicopteridae). Flamingos are tall wading birds with long, delicate legs and downturned bills. They also have long, curved necks which are made up of multiple vertebrae as seen here. The flamingo is 62 cm from ground to shoulder.
  • Mount Serbal, Egypt: view from the Wadee Feyran. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1858.
  • A man and his dogs wade through a shallow lake trying to shoot ducks. Wood engraving by J. Scott.
  • A cowherdess lifts her skirt to wade through shallow water and waves her stick towards the cows. Engraving by J. Brain after A. Cooper.
  • Fire tests with textiles : flannelette "ordinary", flannelette "fine finish", art muslin, curtain net, scenic canvas, as also tissue paper and wadding; untreated and treated with Snowdon's Flame-Proofing Solution submitted for test by Snowdon & Co., Ltd., London the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].
  • Fire tests with textiles : flannelette "ordinary", flannelette "fine finish", art muslin, curtain net, scenic canvas, as also tissue paper and wadding; untreated and treated with Snowdon's Flame-Proofing Solution submitted for test by Snowdon & Co., Ltd., London the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].
  • Branching blood vessels in the retina
  • Retinal blood vessels with nuclei
  • Retinal capillary bed
  • Retinal capillary bed with nuclei
  • Complete skeleton of a marabou stork
  • A curlew. Etching.
  • A long legged plover standing on the shore of a lake. Etching by Eastgate.
  • A jacana bird. Etching.
  • A huntsman stalking an unsuspecting stag. Etching by W. Backshell after A. Cooper.
  • A spoonbill. Etching by Eastgate.
  • An adjutant bird sitting on a branch of a tree looking down on a group of birds on the shore of a lake. Lithograph.
  • A turnstone bird. Etching.
  • Surinam: white men with rifles are holding them high as they make their way through a swamp after a black man. Engraving after J.G. Stedman.
  • dPal-Idan Lha-mo (Magzor Palden Lhamo), a Tibetan demon goddess riding on a mule. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • A cormorant, an ibis and a pelican standing near the water. Coloured chalk lithograph.