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Entomologists

Images

  • An entomologist at work; represented by a composite man made up of insects. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley, 1830, after G. Spratt.
  • Buyers collecting their purchases after a sale of insects. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.
  • M0014820: Portrait of Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur (1683-1757)
  • M0014820: Portrait of Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur (1683-1757)
  • A young man visiting a surgeon-apothecary in his workroom, where the proprietor shows him one of his prize natural history specimens. Etching by J. Leech.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Nabokov's blues : the scientific odyssey of a literary genius / Kurt Johnson, Steve Coates.

    Johnson, Kurt. | Date: 1999
    • Books

    Dr. José H. Pazos y Caballero : (gran entomólogo Cubano) 1867-1928 / Manuel Arnau Macías.

    Arnau Macías, Manuel. | Date: 1968
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A young man visiting a surgeon-apothecary in his workroom, where the proprietor shows him one of his prize natural history specimens. Etching by J. Leech.

    Leech, John, 1817-1864. | Date: 1848 | Reference: 16015i
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0014820: Portrait of Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur (1683-1757)

    | Date: July 1956 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/132/54
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Pictures

    A lepidopterist is so concerned with staying within his own specialty that he turns away from an amazing discovery in another discipline -- the discovery of a live stegosaurus. Watercolour by G. Morrow, 1935.

    Morrow, George, 1869-1955. | Date: 1935 | Reference: 663398i
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