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Beyond a green carpet

Plant ecologist Sara Middleton explores the amazing symbiotic relationships between the species that make up grasslands, and considers their future as rain becomes more scarce.

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  • Guru Gobind Singh mixing nectar for his disciples at the birth of Khalsa. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • The Indian Nectar, or, A discourse concerning Chocolata : Wherein the Nature of the Cacao-nut, and the other Ingredients of that Composition, is examined, and stated according to the Judgment and Experience of the Indians, and Spanish writers, who lived in the Indies, and others; with sundry additional Observations made in England: The ways of compounding and preparing Chocolata are enquired into; its Effects, as to its alimental and Venereal quality, as well as Medicinal (especially in Hypochondriacal Melancholy) are fully debated. Together with a Spagyrical Analysis of the Cacao-nut, performed by that excellent Chymist, Monsieur le Febure, Chymist to His Majesty. / By Henry Stubbe.
  • The Indian Nectar, or, A discourse concerning Chocolata : Wherein the Nature of the Cacao-nut, and the other Ingredients of that Composition, is examined, and stated according to the Judgment and Experience of the Indians, and Spanish writers, who lived in the Indies, and others; with sundry additional Observations made in England: The ways of compounding and preparing Chocolata are enquired into; its Effects, as to its alimental and Venereal quality, as well as Medicinal (especially in Hypochondriacal Melancholy) are fully debated. Together with a Spagyrical Analysis of the Cacao-nut, performed by that excellent Chymist, Monsieur le Febure, Chymist to His Majesty. / By Henry Stubbe.
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea Physic Garden, London. Close-up of bees at honeycomb tray. Insect members of the superfamily Apoidea, found almost everywhere, particularly on flowers. Their young are fed honey and pollen rather than animal food. Honey is collected in the form of nectar from flowers and concentrated into honey by evaporation. For most people bee stings are of little significance and are treated locally; other persons, however, react with hypersensitivity putting them in serious danger.
  • Dasaratha being asked in court to banish Rama by Kaikeyi and her humpbacked female slave Manthara. Chromolithograph.
  • Christ playing musical instruments in the believer's heart. Engraving by H. Wierix.
  • Fruit bat tongue
  • A cargo ship sails into a green silhouette of a condom with a message to 'sail the safe course'; a safe sex advertisement by the Directorate General for Shipping and Maritime Affairs of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works. Colour lithograph.
  • The adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ. Engraving by Marinus van der Goes after J. Jordaens.
  • The adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ. Engraving by Marinus van der Goes after J. Jordaens.
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