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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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Measure for measure?
From censuses to smartwatches, Ross MacFarlane shows how we have tracked health across the centuries.
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Tree of life
Ross MacFarlane traces the ideas around Charles Darwin’s famous ‘Tree of Life’, both back to the Bible, and forward to its appropriation by the proponents of eugenics.
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Water of life?
From ancient sources of spiritual sustenance to the modern spa, Ross MacFarlane traces a brief history of healing waters.
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Answers for Hugh Ross merchant in London, John MacFarlane writer to the Signet, and James Wemyss merchant in Edinburgh, adjudgers from Alexander Brownlie adjudger of the lands of Williecleugh, and Robert Pringle writer in Edinburgh, another adjudger of the said estate, and other creditors upon the said estate; to the petition of Helen Alston, the disponee of Elizabeth Ramsay her mother, deceast.
Date: 1746]- Books
A short synopsis of human protozoology and helminthology / by L.R.S. MacFarlane ; illustrated by the late R.M. Leach.
MacFarlane, L. R. S. (Lenox Ross Selby), 1904-Date: 1969- Books
A short synopsis of human protozoology and helminthology / by L.R.S. MacFarlane ; illustrated by R.M. Leach.
MacFarlane, L. R. S. (Lenox Ross Selby), 1904-Date: 1960- Archives and manuscripts
Circulars Book 37 - part 1
Date: 1931-1932Reference: WF/M/GB/01/37/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Circulars Book 27 - Part 3
Date: 1924-1925Reference: WF/M/GB/01/27/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd