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On contagion

Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.

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The men who meddled with nature

The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.

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Who was Audrey Amiss?

Elena Carter introduces the vast collection left behind by artist Audrey Amiss, who documented her life in astonishing detail.

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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs

In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.

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  • Annual general meeting and tour of the London Zoo / UFAW.
  • A zoo with giraffes, tigers, and a peacock. Coloured lithograph.
  • Two elephants and zoo keeper walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Two elephants and zoo keeper walking. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Charles Bradlaugh as a gorilla in a zoo. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 3 December 1887.
  • Zoological Society of London: two beavers outside their artificial burrows in the zoo. Etching by W. Panormo after W. Berthoud.
  • A hairy rhinoceros is transferred from a travelling den to its cage in the zoo. Wood engraving by E. Griset.
  • Armand, a curator in a zoo, meets Mme Girard while a nanny looks after her child. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Canu, 1821.
  • A pigmy elephant with crooked legs having a plaster cast applied by the zoo superintendent, Dr. Vevers, prior to corrective treatment. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer, behelzende eene beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde schaalvisschen, te weeten raare krabben, kreeften, en diergelyke zeedieren, als mede allerhande hoorntjes en schulpen, die men in d'Amboinsche Zee vindt: daar beneven zommige mineraalen, gesteenten, en soorten van aarde, die in d'Amboinsche, en zommige omleggende eilanden gevonden worden / Verdeelt in drie boeken. Beschreven door Georgius Everhardus Rumphius.
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