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  • Honeybee
  • Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.
  • Axons in living embryo, confocal image.
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • Grasshopper (?). Watercolour, 1777/1783.
  • A female scorpion being led into a burrow by her mate. Reproduction of a photograph by P. H. Fabre.
  • Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Head of a honeybee
  • A chickweed plant (Cerastium quaternellum) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • An entomologist at work; represented by a composite man made up of insects. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley, 1830, after G. Spratt.
  • A cabbage plant (Brassica oleracea) with an associated moth or butterfly and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Wild garlic plant (Allium ursinum) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.
  • Transgenic Drosophila pupa expressing GFP
  • The birth of Christ; the Virgin kneels before the manger. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after P.P. Rubens.
  • Dyer's greenweed plant (Genista tinctoria) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • A large paeony (Paeonia species) surrounded by various flowers and moths. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.
  • A grass (Arundo arenaria) with an associated insect and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Crested hair grass (Koeleria cristata) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • A dragonfly on a lotus flower (Nelumbo species) held above the water. Watercolour.
  • A foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and orange lily (Lilium bulbiferum): flowering stems with butterfly and other insect. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • Cabbage white butterfly egg,v.close-up, SEM.
  • Honeybee
  • Grass-hoppers, dragon-flies and other insects. Woodcut, 1716.
  • A broomrape plant (Orobanche minor) with an associated beetle and its abdominal segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.
  • Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium: in qua, praeter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque ... metamorphosin, plantae, flores et fructus, quibus vescuntur, et in quibus fuerunt inventae, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneae, aliaque ... istius regionis animalcula ... Accedit appendix transformationum piscium in ranas, et ranarum in pisces. Dissertation sur la génération et les transformations des insectes de Surinam. Dans laquelle on traite des vers et des chenilles de Surinam, des plantes, fleurs, & fruits dont ils vivent & dans lesquels on les a trouvez. On y parle aussi des crapaux, lezards, serpens, aragnées & autres petits animaux du même païs, peints sur les lieux d'après nature, & depuis gravez avec beaucoup de soin.On y a joint un traité des changemens des poissons en grenouilles & des grenouilles en poissons / [Maria Sibylla Merian].
  • Beetle. Watercolour, 1777/1783.
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • Various insects and flowers illustrating a frontispiece. Engraving by C. H. Hemerich.
  • The book of nature; or, the history of insects: reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species, and illustrated with copper-plates ... / by John Swammerdam, M.D. With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin original edition by Thomas Flloyd.