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The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the US Government building: natural history exhibit featuring stuffed wild animals: elks and a polar bear. Photograph, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 571994iPart of: 1904 World's Fair (or Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis.- Pictures
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The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the US Government building: natural history exhibit featuring a whale skeleton and life-sized whale model. Photograph, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 571993iPart of: 1904 World's Fair (or Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis.- Pictures
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Ernst Haeckel being tormented by Prussian cherubim who confront his work on the natural history of creation with the Almanach de Gotha. Drawing attributed to Max Hagen.
Hagen, Max, 1862-1914.Reference: 44426i- Pictures
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Putti perform an anatomical dissection on a dog; others hold a jar containing a human foetus; two more play with a spider; representing anatomy and natural history. Etching by B. Picart, 1729.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1729Reference: 25666i- Pictures
Exotic birds in their natural habitats. Coloured magic lantern slides.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 755098i- Pictures
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Paramaribo, Surinam: the room of a natural historian. Watercolour, 1845.
Date: 1845Reference: 678086i- Digital Images
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T. Birch, The History of the Royal Society
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Richard Parnell, doctor of medicine and natural historian. Oil painting by Norman Macbeth.
MacBeth, Norman, 1821-1888.Reference: 45808i- Digital Images
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Serratula tinctoria subsp. seoanei (Willk.)M.Lainz Asteraceae. Saw-wort (in the USA called Dyer's plumeless saw-wort). Distribution: Europe. Named after Dr Victor Lopez Seoane (1832-1900) a Spanish naturalist and physician who was Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Natural History in Corunna. He attained a certain infamy in that three of the subspecies of birds which he published as new discoveries were in leaflets dated 1870 and 1891 but were actually published in 1894, the discovery of which rendered two of his discoveries attributable to others (Ferrer, in Ingenium 7:345-377 (2001). This plant was described by Heinrich Willkomm in 1899 as Serratula seoanei, but M. Lainz, in 1979, decided it was merely a subspecies of Serratula tinctoria, a plant described by Linnaeus (1753). Linnaeus based his description on a plant with a woodcut in Dodoens' Pemptades (1583), saying it had pinnate leaves. However, that woodcut is of two different plants, and when re-used by Gerard (1633) he pointed out that Tabernamontanus (1625) had a woodcut of them and a third plant all with leaves varying from just pinnate to entire. Whatever, the leaves on Serratula tinctorius subsp. seoanei are very distinct, but while pinnate the leaflets are exceedingly narrowly and deeply dissected, Gerard (1633) writes that it is 'wonderfully commended to be most singular [useful] for wounds, ruptures, burstings, and such like...' It is a dye plant, containing luteolin, the same yellow dye as is present in Reseda luteola (source of the dye 'weld'). Seoane also has a viper, Vipera seoanei, named after him
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Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A goose. Watercolour drawing.
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Two frogs. Watercolour drawing.
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Illustration of a proverb: a fresh-water prawn with two cat-fishes. Watercolour drawing.
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An aculeated file-fish (above), a downy file-fish and a two-spined file-fish (below). Engraving by Hill.
Date: 1 June 1804Reference: 41957i- Pictures
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A bird of prey carrying off a fish. Watercolour drawing.
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A fish being carried off by a bird. Watercolour drawing.
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Fish. Watercolour drawing.
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Two fish. Watercolour drawing.
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Fairy fly (Himopolynema), parasitoid wasp
Andrew Polaszek, Natural History Museum- Digital Images
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Beetle larva living on a spider-hunting wasp
Andrew Polaszek, Natural History Museum- Digital Images
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Rapacious parasitoid (Dryinus bruneianus)
Andrew Polaszek, Natural History Museum- Pictures
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Pet parrot on a perch. Watercolour drawing.
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The Museum of Practical Geology, Piccadilly: the interior. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1848, after B. Sly.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 1848Reference: 40340i- Pictures
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A panoramic display of big cats. Etching by J Wolf, ca 1850, tinted by H Adlard.
Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899.Date: 1850Reference: 39788i- Digital Images
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Parasitoid wasp Wallaceaphytis kikiae, LM.
Polaszek, Andrew.Date: 2014