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Postcard of an orang utang's face, "reproduced from a stamp designed by hat-trick design and featuring photography ©Frans Lanting/Corbis. Issued by Royal Mail on 12 February 2009" to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.

Stamp card series (Royal Mail Group)

Stamp card series / Royal Mail Group

Evolution, ecology & natural history ephemera

1 sheet : color illustrations ; 11 x 15 cm.

Darwin : anthropology.

Postcard of engravings of 4 numbered finches' heads, "reproduced from a stamp designed by hat-trick design and featuring photography ©2009, The Natural History Museum, London. Issued by Royal Mail on 12 February 2009" to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.

Darwin : ornithology.

Postcard showing a flightless cormorant from the 'miniature sheet' of 4 stamps designed by Howard Brown featuring a map of the Galapagos Islands and photographs ©Tui De Roy. "Issued by Royal Mail on 12 February 2009" to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.

1 sheet : color illustrations, map ; 11 x 15 cm.

Darwin : flightless cormorant.

Postcard of an illustration of a bee orchid (Ophrys apifera), "reproduced from a stamp designed by hat-trick design and featuring photography ©2009, The Natural History Museum, London. Issued by Royal Mail on 12 February 2009" to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.

Darwin : botany.

Postcard "reproduced from a miniature sheet designed by Pearce Marchbank... Issued by Royal Mail on 29 August 2012."

Postage stamps. Box 6A: Great Britain.

Welcome to the London 2012 Paralympic Games : (miniature sheet) / issued by Royal Mail.

Postcard showing an enlargement of the 58 pence postage stamp in the Medical breakthroughs series featuring a photograph of penicillin mold in a petrie dish on a black background." Issued by Royal Mail on 16 September 2010. Image supplied by Wellcome Images.

Medical breakthroughs

History of medicine ephemera. Box 4.

Antibiotic properties of penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming : 58.

Postcard of a portrait of Charles Darwin, "reproduced from a stamp designed by hat-trick design and featuring photography ©2009, The Natural History Museum, London. Issued by Royal Mail on 12 February 2009" to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.

1 sheet : color illustrations, portrait ; 11 x 15 cm.

Charles Darwin, 1809-1882.

Postcard showing an enlargement of the 1st class postage stamp in the Medical breakthroughs series featuring an illustration of a heart with a cardiogram of a heartbeat superimposed on it on a black background. "Issued by Royal Mail on 16 September 2010.

Heart-regulating beta blockers synthesised by Sir James Black, 1962 : 1st.

Postcard of one of the Cocos (Keeling) islands, "reproduced from a stamp designed by hat-trick design and featuring photography ©Karen Willshaw.... Issued by Royal Mail on 12 February 2009" to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.

Darwin : geology.

Postcard showing an enlargement of the 97 pence postage stamp in the Medical breakthroughs series featuring a computed tomography scan through the torso on a black background." Issued by Royal Mail on 16 September 2010.

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