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Letter from Andrew Huxley
Date: 17 Dec 1962Reference: PENROSE/2/45/1/13Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
Post Office Glasgow directory for 1864, 1865 : arranged in three divisions, general, street and commercial, accompanied with a map of the city, recently revised; to which is added a suburban directory, with an appendix containing general and local information : thirty-seventh annual publication."
Date: 1864- Books
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Dietrichsen and Hannay's diary and daily memoranda for 1848, : bound up with their almanack.
Hannay & Dietrichsen, Chemists and Druggists.Date: [1849]- Books
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Further reports (no. 6) on flies as carriers of infection.
Date: 1913- Books
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Non-Residence inexcusable; or, the monitor admonished: in a letter to Dr. Free, on the occassion of his elaborate harangue, delivered to the London clergy, at their annual festival, held on the 15th of May last, at Sion College. By the Reverend Absalom Hurley, A. B. Late of Baliol College, Oxford, and now Curate of Kentish Town, Middlesex. Beware of Non-Residents.
Hurley, Absalom, 1725 or 1726-Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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The traveller's and chapman's daily instructor: containing tables of the twelve months in the year, shewing the Fix'd and Moveable Feasts and Remarkable Days, with their Explanations. The Golden Number, Dominical Letter, Epact, and the Four Terms of the Year, Cicle of the Sun, thereby to find the Age, Change, Full, and Quarters of the Moon. The Sun's Place, the Time of its Rising and Setting. Length of the Day and Night. The Day of the Month and Day of the Week, for ever, without the help of an Almanack. The high-ways and roads, and how to Travel from one Place to another. The market-towns, and the Days of the Week whereon they are kept. All the fairs in England, Scotland and Ireland; the Time and Places when and where held, more at large by some Thousands, and truer than heretofore hath ever been done by any one Author An exact account of all the stage-coaches, waggoners and carriers that comes from all Parts of England and Wales to London, Westminster, and Southwark; the Places and Signs of the Inns they come to, and the Days of their Setting out for their several Towns in the Country; with the Day and Places where to send any Goods that are to be Water-Born to any Part in England and Wales. The whole in an Alphabetical Method.
Date: 1705- Books
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Irish history. Dedicated to His Grace Hugh Duke of Northumberland this day is published. price 6d. Containing three sheets of letter-press, a new and correct map of Ireland, coloured, and a whole length, finely engraved, of King Bryan, number I. (To be continued weekly) of a general history of Ireland. From the earliest accounts to the present time. By John Huddlestone Wynne, gent. author of the history of the British Empire in America, &c. &c. The above work will be compleated in twenty numbers, each numbers containing three-sheets of letter-press, printed on a beautiful new type and fine paper; which will, when finished, make two handsome volumes in octavo, in the course of the work a number of elegant engravings will be given; principally heads of Illustrious persons, who have been ranked as famous in the annals of Ireland.
Riley, George.Date: [1772]- Books
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A list of the several divisions and districts of the inland letter-carriers, Shewing the order in which each district is served, and intended to facilitate the more correct sorting of letters: also to enable any officer to set the letters on a strange walk, agreeable to a survey taken in the year 1796.
Great Britain. Post Office.Date: Printed in the year 1797- Books
Preliminary reports on flies as carriers of infection : 1. How to distinguish the more important species of flies found in houses; 2. Mr. E.E. Austen's notes on flies examined during 1908; 3. Mr Jepson's report on the breeding of the common house fly during the winter months.
Date: 1909- Pictures
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An Indian water-carrier and his wife. Gouache painting.
Date: [1815?]Reference: 728684iPart of: Indian practitioners of trades, crafts, and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.- Pictures
Illustration of a messenger boy with his bicycle.
Date: [between 1920 and 1925?]Reference: 3289309iPart of: E.F.A. Series No. 533- Pictures
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A baby in a carrier made from canvas sailor's trousers in Southend-on-Sea, England. Photograph by Cyril Norwood, 1922.
Norwood, Cyril. (Journalist)Date: 1922/08/13Reference: 580258i- Pictures
Lake Windemere, British Colombia: a Native American baby-carrier attached to the back of a pony. Photograph, 1922.
Reference: 580280i- Pictures
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A baby in a carrier made from canvas sailor's trousers, being carried along the street by its parents in Southend-on-Sea, England. Photograph by Cyril Norwood, 1922.
Norwood, Cyril (Journalist)Date: 1922/08/13Reference: 580247i- Pictures
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Left, a small man (a dwarf?) lifts a horse's tail with a bamboo rod to catch its faeces in a scoop; above right, a man with filarial elephantiasis is helped to carry his enlarged scrotum supported with a sling; below right, a woman carrying a baby on her back points in amazement. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.
Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849.Date: 1834]Reference: 565511i- Pictures
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Above left, a woman with a baby on her back, preparing to smoke a pipe (?); above right, men and women walking in line; below, an ox leading peasants to the Kawaguchi temple. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, with top left design by Kunichika and design below by a pupil of Kyōsai, ca. 1870.
Kawanabe, Kyōsai, 1831-1889.Date: [1870?]Reference: 567359i- Pictures
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A parasitic nematode (Filaria immitis) and its vector, the mosquito (Myzomyia superpicta). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
Terzi, A. J. E. (Amedeo John Engel), 1872-1956.Reference: 41498i- Pictures
Portraits: Groups and Individuals (Egypt).
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 3307391iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
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Diseases spread by the house fly. Colour lithograph by L.H. Wilder for the U.S. Public Health Service, 1912/1922.
Wilder, L. H.Date: [1912/1922]Reference: 562398i- Pictures
A Korean (?) woman, carrying a baby on her back.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 541722iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
Brisbane (Qld.). City Council. Department of Health.Date: [1928?]Reference: 562405i- Pictures
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The bandicot tick (Ixodes reduvius), vector of the louping-ill parasite. Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
Terzi, A. J. E. (Amedeo John Engel), 1872-1956.Reference: 41503i- Pictures
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Life-cycle stages of the parasite Babesia canis and its vector, the kennel tick (Rhicephalus sanguineus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
Terzi, A. J. E. (Amedeo John Engel), 1872-1956.Reference: 41495i- Pictures
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Life-cycle stages of the parasite Haemogregarina muris and its vector, the mite (Lelaps echidninus). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
Terzi, A. J. E. (Amedeo John Engel), 1872-1956.Reference: 41502i- Books
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Vermiculars destroyed : with an historical account of worms, collected from the best authors as well ancient as modern, and expe[r]iments [pr]oved by that admirable invention of the microscope : with directions for the taking those most famous medicines, intituled Pulvis Benedictus, &c. : also diagnostick signs of worms and signs of health in children, with the various causes of vermiculars / by R.C., chymist.
R. C. (R. Clark)Date: 1690