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Clocks: various springs, escapements, and correction mechanisms. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
Date: 20 November 1809Reference: 40889i- Pictures
Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 40869i- Pictures
Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 40871i- Pictures
Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.
Reference: 40730i- Pictures
Clocks: spring driven [?] repeater clock mechanism (below), details of gears (above). Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.
Reference: 40734i- Pictures
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Clocks: a repeater clock mechanism, exploded view. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.
Reference: 40736i- Pictures
Clocks: a pocket chronometer, details of the mechanism. Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40776i- Books
Drosophila : a laboratory handbook / Michael Ashburner, Kent G. Golic, R. Scott Hawley.
Ashburner, M.Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
Benchmarking report and index / prepared for Opportunity 2000 by Roffey Park Management Institute, Business in the Community.
Roffey Park Management Institute.Date: [1998]- Books
Mathematical topics in population genetics / edited by Ken-ichi Kojima.
Kojima, Ken-ichi.Date: 1970- Books
Evaluating clinical research : all that glitters is not gold / Bengt D. Furberg and Curt D. Furberg.
Furberg, Bengt.Date: [2007], ©2007- Pictures
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British politicians as acrobats at a fair: performances by Lord John Russell balancing on a pole inscribed "Irish corporation billl...", Daniel O'Connell swallowing a sword inscribed "Repeal", and Thomas Spring-Rice balancing on his chin an object with a picture of a church, watched by political onlookers. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1837.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 30 March 1837Reference: 36633iPart of: HB sketches- Books
Clinical ethics and the necessity of stories : essays in honor of Richard M. Zaner / edited by Osborne P. Wiggins and Annette C. Allen.
Date: [2011], ©2011- Books
Silent spring at 50 : the false crises of Rachel Carson / edited by Roger Meiners, Pierre Desrochers, and Andrew Morriss.
Date: [2012], ©2012- Books
Ayurveda : ancient wisdom for modern wellbeing / Geeta Vara.
Vara, GeetaDate: 2018- Books
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An account kept during thirteen months in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, of The Going of a Pocket Chronometer, made on a new construction, by John Arnold, Having his new-invented Ballance Spring, and A Compensation for the Effects of Heat and Cold In the Ballance. Published by Permission of the Board of Longitude.
Arnold, John, chronometer maker.Date: 1780- Books
To my patients : the waters of Vichy / by Gustave Monod.
Monod, Gustave, 1803-1890Date: [1931?]- Archives and manuscripts
Annual Dinners
Date: 1971-1994Reference: SA/PRO/APart of: The Prout Club- Books
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This is to inform those that can read, and those that cannot read, but will hear. At the theatrical shew-shop, or butcher's shop, James-Street, Hay-Market. Where Mr. Punch and his wooden-headed Family hack and butcher Common Sense. A little after Owl-Light the Game will begin First, A dish of capers on the Tight Rope by the Master Lawrences, and some celebrated in that art. Secondly, Singing by several clear and good pipes, after the manner of the Moderns, as the antient Method is quite exploded, Thirdly, Several new balances on the slack wire by Mr. Lawrence, who will toss the straw from head to foot to heel; and so to all parts of his body, till it falls on the terrestial globe. Fourthly, By a Company of-some with heads right-and some with heels light. The first of this class will perform a new piece, called piety in pattens; or, Comedy and Tragedy at War. Where our dismal Troop will out-do their usual out-doings By the second, will be some Tumbling, a-la-mode a-flip-flap, with such agility, that their right ends cannot be distinguished from the wrong. The Master Lawrences exhibit the most amazing Somerset Pieces, in quite a different manner to what has been seen on any Stage in England; they likewise perform the Italian Table Tricks, without spring-boards or tramplings, &c. A hornpipe in taste, by Master Lawrence, seven years of age, who will accompany himself on the Violin. Here will be given a Pantomime, in Grotesque Characters, called The Witch of Ender, or Nest of Witches, With Harlequin's Escape over the Gallery. Harlequin, by Don Parsloe; Furiosa, by Diagobabinetto; Don Crackemaralio, Signor Presto Jean; Don Arbobeco, by Cracomaropo; Vampomni by Don Vampo. Columbine, by Donna Larione; Cledpare the Clown, by Don Jefferies; Attendants, by Donna Collingham, Miss Twine, Miss Twist, and Madam Lightfoot, from Italy. First or highest seats, 2d. Second, or Middle Gallery, 4d. Third, or Pit, 6d. Fourth, or Boxes, 1s. The what we call a Theatre to be illuminated with lights. We shall begin exactly as the curtain is drawn up, and the whole to conclude with, being ended---̀̀Laugh where we must, be candid where we can.''
Date: 1780?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between J B S Haldane and the UCL Secretary
Date: Jan 1941 - Apr 1941Reference: HALDANE/3/4/1/1/30Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
Excellent daughters : the secret lives of young women who are transforming the Arab world / Katherine Zoepf.
Zoepf, KatherineDate: 2016- Books
Access to knowledge in the age of intellectual property / edited by Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski.
Date: 2010- Books
Power and protection : Islamic art and the supernatural / Francesca Leoni ; with essays by Pierre Lory, Christiane Gruber, Francesca Leoni ; and contributions by Farouk Yahya and Venetia Porter.
Leoni, Francesca, 1974-Date: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
Ron Henriques archive
Ron Henriques (1949-2021)Date: 1950s-2021Reference: PP/RON- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters from Benjamin Stephen Hobson
Date: 1856-1869Reference: MS.5836Part of: Morrison and Hobson Families