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The tortoise and the love-machine : Grey Walter and the politics of electroencephalography / Rhodri Hayward.
Hayward, Rhodri (Rhodri Lloyd)Date: 2001- Pictures
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The skeletons of a ray (Thornback), bones of the head of a pike and the skeleton of a water tortoise. Engraving.
Date: 25 March 1791Reference: 40453i- Books
The effect of quinidine and strophanthin upon the refractory period of the tortoise ventricle / by W.S. Love, Jr.
Love, W. S., Jr.Date: [1926]- Digital Images
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Spanish Amulets; horns. Piece for animal; 5 for children; 3 piece of antlers; 3 bone horns; ivory; tortoise shell; coral.
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M0001850: Reproduction of an illustration of a wooden table representing a bird and a tortoise possibly from the West Indies by W. M. R. Quick
Date: April 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/17/42Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
The influence of the temperature of the heart on the activity of the vagus in the tortoise / by G.N. Stewart.
Stewart, G. N. (George Neil), 1860-1930.Date: [1909?]- Pictures
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A tortoise is surrounded by frogs on the shore of a lake in which eels are devouring other frogs. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
Aesop.Reference: 39704i- Pictures
The churning of the ocean by gods and demons to retrieve the nectar of immortality; below, Lord Vishnu's avatar as Kurma, the tortoise. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582090i- Pictures
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John Bull sits in a box, umpiring a free trade race between Sir Robert Peel as a tortoise and Lord John Russell as a hare. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: March 1843Reference: 37160iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
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America: an alligator and a tortoise are about to slip into a river while a tapir and a wolverine look on. Engraving by T. Wallis after W. M. Craig.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: April 1805Reference: 42077i- Pictures
Vishnu sits on top and at the bottom of mount Madura in his incarnation as Kurma (tortoise,) as the gods and demons churn the ocean to retrieve the nector and other treasures. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 577284i- Digital Images
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Sir Peter Eade with Tortoises
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Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, etc / By John Murray.
Murray, John, 1786?-1851.Date: 1826- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001247: Reproduction of a gouache painting described as "Vishnu sits on top and at the bottom of mount Madura in his incarnation as Kurma (tortoise,) as the gods and demons churn the ocean to retrieve the nector and other treasures" by an unknown Indian painter
Date: 19 August 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/11/79Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Two Tortoises on a Wall (artwork)
Date: 1975-1984Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/1/10/4Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Digital Images
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Haeckel's Evolution of Man. This plate represents the embryos of two of the lower, and two of the higher Vertebrates in three different stages: of a fish (F); of an amphibian (salamandar,S); of a reptile (tortoise,T); and of a bird (chick,A).
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William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
Reference: 17583i- Pictures
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A tortoise climbs up a female figure as she reaches out to a bird; in the background Adam and Eve are chased from Eden by the archangel Michael with his sword; representing the sense of touch. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603Reference: 26960iPart of: The five senses (Martin de Vos)- Digital Images
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Protozoan balantidium coli - magnified
Royal Veterinary College- Digital Images
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Or Tibetan 114 - Bloodletting chart, Tibet
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Terrapin with rickets - vitamin deficiency
Royal Veterinary College- Digital Images
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Postmortem of a terrapin that died from egg-
Royal Veterinary College- Digital Images
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Dorsal part of the armour of Chelonians
Royal Veterinary College- Digital Images
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Terrapins with rickets
Royal Veterinary College- Digital Images
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Ventral part of the armour of Chelonians
Royal Veterinary College