Stories
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Talent, tech and visual art
Jamie Hale finds a combination of talent and technology are crucial when it comes to creating great visual art, but how do you keep working when your circumstances are in constant flux?
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Drops of water
In the compulsory isolation of lockdown, Daisy Lafarge’s repeated visits – via a new microscope – to the miniature worlds contained by drops of pond water provided her with the company and escapism she craved.
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The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
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Second world's poultry congress and exhibition held at Barcelona - Spain, 19 -18 May 1924 under the patronage of the Spanish government and the auspices of the city of Barcelona and of the preparatory committee of the universal exhibition : book of the congress and description of the exhibition.
World's Poultry Congress and Exhibition 1924 : Barcelona, Spain)Date: [1924?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: c 1920 - c 1960Reference: WF/C/M/PH/02/17Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Briano, J A
Date: c 1978 - c 1992Reference: WF/M/I/PR/126Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Observations on the state of religion and literature in Spain, : made during a journey through the Peninsula in 1819 / By J. Bowring.
Bowring, John, 1792-1872.Date: [1820]- Books
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A new survey of the West-Indies. Being a journal of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America. By Thogage, the only Protestant that was ever known to have travel's those parts. Setting forth his voyage from Spain to S. John de Ulhua: and thence to Xalapa, Tlaxcalla, the city of Angels, and Mexico: with a description of that great city, as in former times, and at present. Likewise his journey thence through Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, & c. with his abode XII. years about Guatemala, his wonderful conversion and calling to his native country: with his return through Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Porto bello, Cartagena, and Havana. With an account of the Spanish naviagation thither; their government, castles, ports, commodities, religion, priefts and friers, Negro's, Mulatto's, Mestiso's, Indians; and their feasts and solemniries. With a grammar, or some few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called Poconchi or Poceman.
Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.Date: 1711