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Yew (Taxus species): leafy stem with fruits. Watercolour.
Reference: 23224i- Digital Images
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Taxus Baccata (Yew)
Rowan McOnegal- Digital Images
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Taxus Baccata, English Yew
Sue Snell- Archives and manuscripts
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Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor - Singapore
Date: 1984-1985Reference: SB/1/2/545Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Digital Images
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Taxus baccata (English yew)
Sue Snell- Digital Images
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Taxus baccata (English yew)
Sue Snell- Books
The yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland / [John Lowe].
Lowe, John, 1830-1902.Date: 1897- Digital Images
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Taxus baccata (English yew)
Sue Snell- Digital Images
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Yellow lichen in yew tree
Odra Noel- Pictures
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Japanese persimmon fruit (Diospyros kaki) and a leafy stem of yew (Taxus species). Watercolour.
Reference: 23278i- Books
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Artificial fire-works, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecadrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Potts Pumps Rain-Fall Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gunpowder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and 3 large Copper-Plates. By Robert Jones, Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Digital Images
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Taxus baccata L. Taxaceae European Yew. Trees are feminine in Latin, so while Taxus has a masculine ending (-us), its specific name, baccata (meaning 'having fleshy berries' (Stearn, 1994)), agrees with it in gender by having a female ending ( -a). Distribution: Europe. Although regarded as poisonous since Theophrastus, Gerard and his school friends used to eat the red berries (they are technically called 'arils') without harm. Johnson clearly ate the fleshy arils and spat out the seed, which is as poisonous as the leaves. It is a source of taxol, an important chemotherapeutic agent for breast and other cancers. It was first extracted from the bark of T. brevifolia, the Pacific yew tree, in 1966. About 1,100 kg of bark produces 10 g of taxol, and 360,000 trees a year would have been required for the needs of the USA – an unsustainable amount. In 1990 a precursor of taxol was extracted from the needles of the European yew so saving the Pacific trees. It is now produced in fermentation tanks from cell cultures of Taxus. Curiously, there is a fungus, Nodulisporium sylviforme, which lives on the yew tree, that also produces taxol. Because taxol stops cell division, it is also used in the stents that are inserted to keep coronary arteries open. Here it inhibits – in a different way, but like anti-fouling paint on the bottom of ships – the overgrowth of endothelial cells that would otherwise eventually block the tube. The economic costs of anticancer drugs are significant. Paclitaxel ‘Taxol’ for breast cancer costs (2012) £246 every 3 weeks
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecaedrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Pots Pumps Rain-Falls Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees, &c. With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gun-Powder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, corrected. With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and three large Copper Plates. By Captain Jones. Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, For Sea and Land Service, His Tables for Sea and Land Cannon, which may save above 100,000?. a Year, by diminishing the Weight of the Guns, the Labour of Men, the Quantity of Powder in charging, from 1-half to 1-3d, 1-4th, and even to 1-5th.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Baucis and Philemon; a poem. On the ever lamented loss of the two yew-trees, in the parish of Chilthorne, Near the County Town of Somerset. Together with Mrs. Harris's earnest petition. By the author of the Tale of a tub. As also An Ode upon solitude. By the Earl of Roscommon.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1709- Books
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Baucis and Philemon: a poem on the ever-lamented loss of the two yew-trees, in the parish of Chilthorne, near the count-town [sic] of Somerset. Together with Mrs. Harris's earnest petition: and an admirable recipe. By the author of the Tale of a tub. As also an ode upot [sic] solitude: by the Earl of Roscommon.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1710- Books
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Baucis and Philemon: a poem on the ever-lamented loss of the two yew-trees, in the parish of Chilthorne, near the County - Town of Somerset. Together with Mrs. Harris's earnest petition: and an admirable recipe. By the author of the Tale of a tub. As also an ode upon solitude: by the Earl of Roscommon.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1710- Videos
Still life.
Date: 2005- Books
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The second part of the timber-tree improved: Containing, I. The nature and uses of foreign and British timber-trees. II. Of oak; a profitable account of it from tradesmen, with several cases relating to this timber. To know if trees are found or unfound, as they stand, or after felling. Why posts, that are burnt at one end to last long, last the less time for it. How to make timber more durable, than in the common way with twenty other improvements relating on the oak. III. Of ash: how to make an impregnable live-fence with this sort of tree, for parks and fields, to immense profit. IV. Of beech; how to make it last near as long as heart of oak. How beech was so managed, as to be sold to a London chair-maker for walnut tree. A remarkable example of many great beeches being rotted as they stood, by the ignorance of their owner; with fifteen other particulars relating to this tree. V. Ten sorts of improvements of the elm. VI. Eight improvements of the walnut-tree. VIII. Of the maple, bay-tree, sycamore, birch, laurel, lignum-vitae tree, whip-beam, holly, witch-elm, horn-beech, yew, and box-tree, pine of fir, cypress-tree, black cherry, cedar, sweet and horse chesnut, juniper, hasel and fill-beard, pear-tree, apple and crab, barberry-tree. almond-tree, plum-tree, quince, mulberry, white and red elder-tree, black and white-thorn, asp, poplar, alder, willow, white-wood, sallow, withy and osier, medalar and service-tree, ivy, furz and whins, &c. By William Ellis, of Little Gaddesden, near Hempstead, in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Pictures
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A bereaved mother mourning her dead daughter in a graveyard, stricken with remorse for having treated her harshly in her lifetime. Engraving by R.L. Wright.
Wright, R. L., active approximately 1822-1830.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 44406i- Books
Byways in British archaeology / by Walter Johnson.
Johnson, Walter, 1867-Date: 1912- Books
Wicked plants : the weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities / Amy Stewart ; etchings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs ; illustrations by Jonathon Rosen.
Stewart, Amy.Date: 2009