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The colonial territories / Colonial Office.

Records of the Medical Research Laboratory

21 pages : black and white charts ; 23 cm.

Report on the physical development of European school children in Kenya / by D. Harvey.

<p>The Home and Colonial School Society was founded in 1836 to popularise the methods of the Swiss educational reformer Pestalozzi</p>

Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.

Colonial population / by Robert R. Kuczynski.

A provincia de S. Thomé e Principe e suas dependencias : ou, A Salubridade e insalubridade relativa das provincias do Brazil, das colonias de Portugal e de outras nações da Europa / [Manuel Ferreira Ribeiro].

<p>The bottom sphere is circumscribed by a scythe which the beast of yellow fever is holding with its right hand. In its other hand it holds an empty hour-glass. The ghoulish figure on the left is being attacked by a scorpion which has inserted its tail into his neck. On the right, the bony hand of the ghoul, who has an overgrown moustache, clutches his side with sharp talons. The next sphere is circumscribed by a parodic angel's wings; he again appears as a Father Time figure, but with a bottle of opium; underneath his fierce, white-eyed visage, the colonialists swoon, blissfully unaware of the fever that rages below. Outside this sphere the sun spreads out, flanked by symbols of the zodiac (the crab and lion)</p>

1 print : aquatint with etching, with watercolour ; image 30.4 x 47.7 cm

A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.

Wenner-Gren international series.

Wenner-Gren international symposium series

Sensible objects : colonialism, museums and material culture / edited by Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden and Ruth B. Phillips.

Medical Heritage Library

Memoir of : with extracts from his private and published letters / by his son, Samuel Haughton.

ACLS Fellows’ publications.

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

xii, 470 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Tensions of empire : colonial cultures in a bourgeois world / edited by Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler.

Photograph of a tower mutant colony (white) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae or Baker's yeast growing on an agar plate surrounded by normal colonies (red). In the tower mutant colony, yeast cells grow upwards forming a projection or protusion. It is not known whether the cause of this is due to a random genetic mutation or other underlying growth mechanisms. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of yeast commonly used in baking, brewing and wine making.

Tower mutant colony of baker's yeast

Several small colonies of undifferentiated mouse embryonic stem cells growing in culture in serum-free conditions without feeder cells.

Mouse embryonic stem cells

The Bengal obituary, or, A record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth : being a compilation of tablets and monumental inscriptions from various parts of the Bengal and Agra Presidencies : to which is added biographical sketches and memoirs of such as have pre-eminently distinguished themselves in the history of British India, since the formation of the European settlement to the present time / by Holmes and Co.

Atti del primo Congresso di studi coloniali, Firenze, 8-12 aprile 1931.

Epifluorescence micrograph of colonies of Escherichia coli bacteria. Bacteria cells were labelled with fluorescent proteins sfGFP (green) and mCherry (red) and these were used to study the generation of structure and patterns. Width of image is 2 mm.

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The colonial territories / Colonial Office.

Report on the physical development of European school children in Kenya / by D. Harvey.

Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.

Colonial population / by Robert R. Kuczynski.

A provincia de S. Thomé e Principe e suas dependencias : ou, A Salubridade e insalubridade relativa das provincias do Brazil, das colonias de Portugal e de outras nações da Europa / [Manuel Ferreira Ribeiro].

A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.

Sensible objects : colonialism, museums and material culture / edited by Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden and Ruth B. Phillips.

Memoir of : with extracts from his private and published letters / by his son, Samuel Haughton.

Tensions of empire : colonial cultures in a bourgeois world / edited by Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler.

Tower mutant colony of baker's yeast

Mouse embryonic stem cells

Atti del primo Congresso di studi coloniali, Firenze, 8-12 aprile 1931.

Colonies of E. coli bacteria, LM

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Report on the physical development of European school children in Kenya / by D. Harvey.

Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.

Colonial population / by Robert R. Kuczynski.

A provincia de S. Thomé e Principe e suas dependencias : ou, A Salubridade e insalubridade relativa das provincias do Brazil, das colonias de Portugal e de outras nações da Europa / [Manuel Ferreira Ribeiro].

A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.

Sensible objects : colonialism, museums and material culture / edited by Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden and Ruth B. Phillips.

Memoir of : with extracts from his private and published letters / by his son, Samuel Haughton.

Tensions of empire : colonial cultures in a bourgeois world / edited by Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler.

Tower mutant colony of baker's yeast

Mouse embryonic stem cells

Atti del primo Congresso di studi coloniali, Firenze, 8-12 aprile 1931.

Colonies of E. coli bacteria, LM

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