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  • Sir William Charles Ellis. Lithograph by W. L. Aldous.
  • William Thomas Brande. Stipple engraving by C. W. Sharpe after L. Wyon.
  • William Woodville, with a vignette of the St Pancras smallpox hospital. Stipple engraving, 1806, by W. Bond after L. F. Abbott and W. Woolnoth after G.S. Shepherd.
  • William Woodville, with a vignette of the St Pancras smallpox hospital. Stipple engraving, 1806, by W. Bond after L. F. Abbott and W. Woolnoth after G.S. Shepherd.
  • William Woodville, with a vignette of the St Pancras smallpox hospital. Stipple engraving, 1806, by W. Bond after L. F. Abbott and W. Woolnoth after G.S. Shepherd.
  • William Woodville, with a vignette of the St Pancras smallpox hospital. Stipple engraving, 1806, by W. Bond after L. F. Abbott and W. Woolnoth after G.S. Shepherd.
  • Edinburgh University Group portrait. Including H.G. Dunbar , C.M. Campbell, A.N. Fell, Alexander Frew, R.G. Gordon, David Hepburn, A.W.M. Harvey, Mathew Holmes, E.B., M.B., Ch.B. Jamieson, E. L. Meynell, John Lovett, William Maclaren, Sir William Turner, K.C.B., William Lilico, B.P. Watson, S.A.K., Wilson, David Waterson, I. Scott, R.E. Russell, A.B. Ross, H.H. Robarts.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 62nd session, group portrait- including N. Cheua, A.K. Cosgrove, J.A. Cruickshank, Gray, J., A.L. Gregg, W.P. Hogg, M.K. Abdul Khalik, E.U. MacWilliam, M. Jackson, Dr. G.C. Low, E.G. Mack, Miss Turner, R.T. Leiper, J.S. Maxwell, Dr. Sambon, G.A.S. Madgwick, E.J. Wood, G. Warren, Dr. P. Manson-Bahr.
  • Matthiola incana (L.)W.T.Aiton Brassicaceae Distribution: The genus name commemorates Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500/1–77), physician and botanist, whose name is Latinised to Matthiolus.. Incana means hoary or grey, referring to the colour of the leaves. Mattioli's commentaries on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides were hugely popular. Matthiola incana was first described by Linnaeus as Cheiranthus incanus, being changed to Matthiola by William Aiton, at Kew, in 1812. It is in the cabbage family. Commercial seed packets contain a mixture of single and double forms. The latter are sterile, but selective breeding has increased the proportion of double forms from the seed of single forms to as much as 80%. ‘Ten week stocks’ are popular garden annuals, flowering in the year of sowing, whereas ‘Brompton stocks’ (another variety of M. incana) are biennials, flowering the following year. Gerard (1633), called them Stocke Gillofloure or Leucoium, and notes the white and purple forms, singles and doubles. About their medicinal value he writes ‘not used in Physicke except among certain Empiricks and Quacksalvers, about love and lust matters, which for modestie I omit’. The thought of a member of the cabbage family being an aphrodisiac might encourage the gullible to take more seriously the government’s plea to eat five portions of vegetable/fruit per day. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The balloon 'Saladin' is blown off course out to sea from Bridport. Coloured wood engraving by W. Wyllie after Captain Templer.
  • Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • A museum interior (?): seven men pose with collected objects, including a human skull, displayed on a table. Photograph, ca. 1930.
  • Louis William Gordon Malcolm. Photograph.
  • Above, W.O. Livingstone, L.S. Dawson and W. Henn, leaders of the search for D. Livingstone, seated on rocks, holding guns; below, the Abydos, the ship on which they sailed to Africa, leaving London. Etching, 1872.
  • Above, W.O. Livingstone, L.S. Dawson and W. Henn, leaders of the search for D. Livingstone, seated on rocks, holding guns; below, the Abydos, the ship on which they sailed to Africa, leaving London. Etching, 1872.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • A family enters a church at Ariccia for the christening of a child. Engraving by L. Stocks after P. Williams.
  • Association of County Medical Officers of Health of England and Wales: members of the association, 1952. Photograph, 1952.
  • A skeleton is approached by an angel who blows the last trump. Etching by Louis Schiavonetti after William Blake, 1808.
  • Edinburgh University group portrait, 1900
  • Makers of British botany : a collection of biographies by living botanists / edited by F.W. Oliver.
  • Group portrait at Edinburgh University
  • Psychologists and psychiatrists. Photograph.
  • Psychologists and psychiatrists. Photograph.
  • A standing young man, naked and viewed in full length; he appears unable to straighten his body. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, c. 1865.
  • The flexor muscles of the arm, hand and fingers, separated from each other and raised through the use of a dowel and a perforated box. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The bones of the arm. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • The muscles of the arm and palm of the hand and geometrical diagrams of the tendons and fibres of different muscles. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
  • Cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.