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Plants - Abnormalities

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  • Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): an expanded flower with surrounding leaves and buds. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.
  • Three men standing by the huge trunk of an Australian mountain ash tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina), in a forest. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • Cluster of fruit of a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). Colour aquatint by G. Carocci, 1838, after I. Palmerini, 1837.
  • Giant water lily (Victoria amazonica): an opening flower with surrounding leaves and buds. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1845, after himself.
  • View from inside an enormous banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis L.). Engraving by J. Greig, after J. Forbes, 1778.
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Catalogue

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    Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates.

    Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922. | Date: 1898, ©1896
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    Vegetable teratology : an account of the principal deviations from the usual construction of plants / Maxwell T. Masters ; with numerous illus. by E.M. Williams.

    Masters, Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden), 1833-1907. | Date: 1869
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    A galled tree (Mimosa cinerea), a Jamaica pepper tree (Pimenta dioica) and a Turkey rhubarb plant (Rheum palmatum). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.

    | Date: [1827] | Reference: 27952i
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    Degeneracy : its causes, signs, and results / by Eugene S. Talbot.

    Talbot Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon), 1847-1924. | Date: 1898
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    Prevention of handicap and the health of women / Margaret Wynn and Arthur Wynn.

    Wynn, Margaret. | Date: [1979]
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