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Queen's College, Oxford: in the sixteenth century. Wood engraving by J. Jackson.

Jackson, John, 1801-1848.

Civil engineering: the pier at Madras, India. Wood engraving, 1863.

Date: 1863

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: Miss North's museum. Wood engraving by Hill.

People walking around inside a belfry, looking at the bells and striking mechanism. Wood engraving by T. Heaviside after B. Sly.

Saint Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, seen from the south with the Palace of Westminster in the background. Wood engraving by T. Sulman.

Sulman, T., active 1855-1900.

A man is holding a swish in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys, a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving.

The evolution of a fox riding a goose into a writer seated at his typewriter (or a pianist?) - which in turn evolves into accordion, bellows, money-bag, and handcuffs; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.

Bennett, Charles H. 1829-1867.

Date: 1863

Hypodermic syringe, Europe, 1871-1900

Science Museum, London

Saint Christopher. Reproduction of wood engraving by W.G. Smith.

Caroli Friderici Hvndertmark ... Liber singvlaris de incrementis artis medicae per expositionem aegrotorvm apvd veteres in vias pvblicas et templa

Hundertmark, Karl Friedrich, 1715-1762.

Date: 1749

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of one of the wards, with some càbbins' and several pensioners. Wood engraving.

Geography: avalanches. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Whymper, Charles H., 1853-1941.

Louis Pasteur. Wood engraving by A. Leveillé after P. Dubois, 1884.

Dubois, Paul, 1829-1905.

A busy day at the beach. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.

Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.

A series of botanical tables, and tables of the materia medica, designed for the use of students preparing for examination at Apothecaries' Hall : illustrated with numerous engravings on wood, and four coloured medico-botanical maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, showing the geographical situation of all the plants of the Pharmacopoeia

Date: 1835

A new-born baby about to receive its first bath. Wood engraving.

A large bridge is suspended over a river and a train is travelling on it. Wood engraving.

The Royal College of Physicians, Trafalgar Square: Sir James Alderson delivering the Harveian lecture. Wood engraving, 1854.

Nigerian porters carrying gun parts across a river to suppress slavery. Wood engraving after Morgan.

Date: 1890

Crimean War: wounded sailors convalescing at Haslar Hospital. Wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin after J. Mayall.

Mayall, J. E. 1813-1901.

Men, women and children are using roller skates as a mode of transport around the streets. Wood engraving.

Thomas Parr, aged 152. Wood engraving.

An ideal landscape of the Miocene period, with elephants rummaging through a forest. Wood engraving by Riou after Cazat.

Architecture: wrought iron lock. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1846, after E. H.

A homeless family are pulling a covered wagon up a steep mountain side, on the path they pass two priests in cassocks, carrying crosses. Wood engraving after M. Schmid.

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