A map of London, with a scale and north point: from Greenwich to Hammersmith east-west, and from Highgate to Stockwell north-south. Wood engraving by J. Dower after himself, 1862.

Buyers collecting their purchases after a sale of insects. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.

John Hyde. Engraving by W. Sharp after R. Home. Engraving.

The medical and physical journal.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Lithograph after Bernhardinus Milnet.

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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections

Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I, Botany / Judith A. Diment [and others] : Australia.

Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part 2, Botany / Judith A. Diment [and others] : Brazil, Java, Madeira, New Zealand, Society Islands and Tierra del Fuego.

Fifty years of oceanography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History) / D.R.C. Kempe & H.A. Buckley.

Guide to the British mycetozoa exhibited in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) / [Arthur and Gulielma Lister].

Seventy years of research in mineralogy and crystallography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), under the Keepership of Story-Maskelyne, Fletcher, and Prior, 1857-1927 / W. Campbell Smith.

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Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I, Botany / Judith A. Diment [and others] : Australia.

Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part 2, Botany / Judith A. Diment [and others] : Brazil, Java, Madeira, New Zealand, Society Islands and Tierra del Fuego.

Fifty years of oceanography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History) / D.R.C. Kempe & H.A. Buckley.

Guide to the British mycetozoa exhibited in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) / [Arthur and Gulielma Lister].

Seventy years of research in mineralogy and crystallography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), under the Keepership of Story-Maskelyne, Fletcher, and Prior, 1857-1927 / W. Campbell Smith.

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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections

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Catalogue

Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I, Botany / Judith A. Diment [and others] : Australia.

Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part 2, Botany / Judith A. Diment [and others] : Brazil, Java, Madeira, New Zealand, Society Islands and Tierra del Fuego.

Fifty years of oceanography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History) / D.R.C. Kempe & H.A. Buckley.

Guide to the British mycetozoa exhibited in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History) / [Arthur and Gulielma Lister].

Seventy years of research in mineralogy and crystallography in the Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), under the Keepership of Story-Maskelyne, Fletcher, and Prior, 1857-1927 / W. Campbell Smith.