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- Archives and manuscripts
Letter from M. Mater to M. de Villiers
Date: 8 November 1822Reference: MS.8131/84Part of: French Naturalists- Pictures
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A butterfly, a moth and a caterpillar in a meadow. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars.
Reference: 40698i- Books
The scalpel and the butterfly : the war between animal research and animal protection / Deborah Rudacille.
Rudacille, Deborah.Date: 2000- Books
The medicine cabinet of curiosities : an unconventional compendium of health facts and oddities from asthmatic mice to plants that can kill / Nicholas Bakalar.
Bakalar, Nick.Date: [2009], ©2009- Pictures
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A butterfly orchid (Oncidium barkerii): flowering plant. Coloured lithograph by G. Severeyns, c. 1869, after J. Vandamme.
Vandamme, J., active 1860-1890.Date: 1869Reference: 25368i- Pictures
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Pollinia (clumps of pollen) of the butterfly habenaria orchid (Habenaria bifolia) on a single stamen. Watercolour, 1892.
Date: 1892Reference: 21234i- Books
"Butterfly itch" (Schmetterlings-Juckreiz) : ein gesundheitliches Problem auch in der Seefahrt / P. Vuksanovic, H.-U. Burchard.
Vuksanović, P.Date: 1986- Archives and manuscripts
M0009614: Hellenic garnet, decorated with a butterfly over a rose, 3rd or 2nd century B.C.
Date: 04 September 1946Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/84/73Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Riviera nature notes : a popular account of the more striking plants and animals of the Riviera and the Maritime Alps / [George Edward Comerford Casey].
Casey, George Edward Comerford, 1845 or 1846-Date: 1898- Pictures
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Butterfly tree or camel's foot (Bauhinia diphylla): flowering stem with floral segments. Line engraving by Mackenzie, c.1795.
Date: [1800]Reference: 20144i- Pictures
Five children playing. Engraving by E. Smith, ca. 1812, after N. Poussin.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.Date: [1812?]Reference: 3043908i- Pictures
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A pink, yellow, white and blue butterfly hovering near a flower. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 580869i- Pictures
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Seven different types of insects including the bee, the butterfly and the dragonfly. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1804.
Date: 22 September 1804Reference: 578679i- Pictures
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A hawthorn twig (Crataegus species) with an associated butterfly, its caterpillar, chrysalis and anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
Date: 1 May 1831Reference: 24205i- Books
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Three odes. To which is added, the miss and the butterfly, a fable, in the manner of the late Mr. Gay.
Hamilton, William, 1704-1754.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera. Box 2.
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A woman with butterfly wings flutters towards flowers representing Czechoslovak spas; advertising the cosmopolitan customers of the spas of Czechoslovakia. Colour lithograph by Atelier B&R, ca. 1946.
Date: [1946?]Reference: 689297i- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera. Box 71.
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C.F. Freyer's Neuere Beiträge zur Schmetterlingskunde / W.G. Tremewan. Ellis & Solander's 'Zoophytes', 1786 / Paul F.S. Cornelius, John W. Wells.
Tremewan, W. Gerald.Date: [1988], ©1988- Pictures
Actors as Kasugaya Tokijiro (right) and Yamanaya Urasato (left): a pair of ill-fated lovers set upon killing themselves in a love pact. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1847-1853.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: 1847-1852Reference: 35964i- Pictures
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On the right the woman with clappers is seated on the Kabuki stage; a female role actor plays the young princess to the left. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1860.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: 1860Reference: 36688i- Pictures
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Butterfly iris (Moraea sp.): entire flowering plant with separate fruiting stem and sections of leaf and bulb. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 17992i- Pictures
A nurse encouraging a child who has recovered from polio to walk into the sunshine in pursuit of a butterfly. Colour lithograph by Eric, 195-(?).
Eric, Danish designer, active approximately 1955?Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]Reference: 653046i- Videos
Sir Cyril Clarke in interview with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme.
Date: 1986- Ephemera
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Fentazin : large blue.
Date: 1969