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Snowdon lily (Lloydia serotina): entire flowering plant. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24489i- Audio
Mountain building : / seed bank.
Date: 2004- Pictures
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Two men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina). Wood engraving, c. 1867.
Date: [1867-1875]Reference: 20950i- Pictures
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Four men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus species). Wood engraving, c. 1867.
Date: [1867-1875]Reference: 20953i- Pictures
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Three men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina), in a forest. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
Date: [1867-1875]Reference: 20952i- Pictures
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A plant (Oxyria digyna): flowering and leafy stem. Coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24380i- Pictures
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Tea plant (Camellia sinensis): flowering stem with sectioned leaf and many floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Miller, c. 1771.
Miller, John, 1715-1790?Date: 10 December 1771Reference: 24552i- Books
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The gardeners labyrinth. Containing a discovrse of the gardeners life, in the yearly trauels to be bestowed on his plot of earth, for the vse of a garden: with instructions for the choice of seeds, apt times for sowing, setting, planting, and watering, and the vessels and instruments seruing to that vse and purpose: wherein are set forth diuers herbers, knots, and mazes cunningly handled for the beautifying of gardens. Also the physick benefit of each herb, plant, and flowre, with the vertues of the distilled waters of euery of them, as by the sequele may further appeare / Gathered out of the best approued writers of gardening, husbandrie, and physicke: by Dydimus Mountain [pseud].
Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528-Date: 1608- Pictures
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A currant plant (Ribes alpinum): fruiting stem. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
Bradbury, Henry, 1831-1860.Date: [c. 1867]Reference: 23667i- Books
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Some account of a botanical tour in the mountains of Auvergne and Switzerland / by David Ross.
Ross, David.Date: 1861- Pictures
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Four plant stems with catkins, all from named types of willow (Salix species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
W. Dickes & Co.Date: [1855]Reference: 24814i- Pictures
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A lakeside village scene with lombardy poplar trees (Populus nigra cv. Italica) growing by the water's edge. Lithograph after G. Barnard, 1848.
Barnard, George, 1807-1890.Date: [1849]Reference: 23783i- Pictures
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China during the Cultural Revolution: children and young people setting off to plant trees and dig reservoirs for the Chinese people. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.
Date: [1970?]Reference: 997198i- Pictures
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A centaur advertising "Centaure" tonic wine made of Alpine plants. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1920?]Reference: 43394i- Books
Hawaiian herbs of medicinal value, found among the mountains and elsewhere in the Hawaiian Islands and known to the Hawaiians to possess curative and palliative properties most effective in removing physical ailments / translated by Akaiko Akana from the original compilations of D. M. Kaaiakamanu and J. K. Akina. Classification of herbs made by H. F. Bergman.
Kaaiakamanu, D. M.Date: 1968- Digital Images
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Chinese Materia medica, C17: Plant drugs, Ginseng
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Two hills and some trees by a lake over which stretches a high bridge. Watercolour.
Reference: 23472i- Pictures
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Africa: indigenous plants and mammals of Ethiopia. Engraving, 1682.
Date: 1682Reference: 42201i- Pictures
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Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870.Date: 1861Reference: 24543i- Books
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The world in miniature; or, The entertaining traveller. Being a new description of the world in every thing necessary and curious; as to situation, customs, manners, genius, temper, diet, diversions, religious, and other ceremonies; trade, manufactures, arts, and sciences; government, policies, laws, religions, buildings; beasts, birds, fishes, plants, reptiles, drugs; cities, mountains, rivers, and other curiosities, belonging to each country. By Mr. John Fransham of Norwich.
Fransham, John, -1753.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Pictures
A rural landscape: a piping shepherd and two couples near a river with a village and mountains beyond; a rainbow to left. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1638? and 1659?]Reference: 2491349i- Books
Useless arithmetic : why environmental scientists can't predict the future / Orrin H. Pilkey & Linda Pilkey-Jarvis.
Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934-Date: [2007], ©2007- Pictures
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Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: [1718]Reference: 20216i- Pictures
China during the Cultural Revolution: the Great Leap Forward shown by women steeple jacks working on high towers in oil refineries (left) and on high pylons in the electricity industry (right). Colour lithograph after Xue Jinggui and others, 1974.
Xue, Jinggui.Date: November 1974Reference: 661330i- Archives and manuscripts
Papers of Guido Pontecorvo, research photos and slides
Date: 20th centuryReference: UGC 198/6Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland