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A bat and three fully dressed birds flying by moonlight. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.

A dream: an owl flies overhead, while large and small figures stand by. Drawing attributed to Thomas Uwins.

An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.

A winged man grabbing a young naked woman by the hand while another sits reading a book surrounded by owls and bats. Etching by J.M. Martínez Espinosa after F. Goya.

Witches meeting and performing spell. Etching by J.A.A. Pastelot.

Cupid leading a lame boy through a forest, watched by demons and animals. Watercolour by H.M. Brock, 1907.

Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.

Heads of a horse shoe bat and a common bat. Drawing, c. 1789.

A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.

Rodrigues Fruit Bats

Illustration to a proverb: the philandering Babu and the musk rat at a party. Watercolour drawing, c. 1870.

Top, a barbastelle bat; bottom, a pipistrelle bat. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.

Key catalogue of parasites reported for chiroptera (bats) with their possible public health importance / by C.W. Stiles and Mabelle Orleman Nolan. The confused nomenclature of Nycteribia Latreille, 1796, and Spinturnix Heyden, 1826 / by Benjamin J. Collins.

A bat. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.

Studier öfver mjölkdentitionen och tändernas homologier hos Chiroptera / af William Leche.

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Chiroptera

Images from the collections

Images referencing Chiroptera

Works from the collections

Top, a barbastelle bat; bottom, a pipistrelle bat. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.

Key catalogue of parasites reported for chiroptera (bats) with their possible public health importance / by C.W. Stiles and Mabelle Orleman Nolan. The confused nomenclature of Nycteribia Latreille, 1796, and Spinturnix Heyden, 1826 / by Benjamin J. Collins.

A bat. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.

Studier öfver mjölkdentitionen och tändernas homologier hos Chiroptera / af William Leche.

Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.

Chiroptera

Images from the collections

Images referencing Chiroptera

Works from the collections

Top, a barbastelle bat; bottom, a pipistrelle bat. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.

Key catalogue of parasites reported for chiroptera (bats) with their possible public health importance / by C.W. Stiles and Mabelle Orleman Nolan. The confused nomenclature of Nycteribia Latreille, 1796, and Spinturnix Heyden, 1826 / by Benjamin J. Collins.

A bat. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.

Studier öfver mjölkdentitionen och tändernas homologier hos Chiroptera / af William Leche.

Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.

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