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A houseleek (Sempervivum arachnoideum): flowering plant. Coloured engraving, c. 1788.
Date: 1788Reference: 25807i
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A plant (Monsonia speciosa): flowering stem and leaf Coloured engraving, c. 1789.
Date: 1 February 1789Reference: 25812i
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The evolution of a fox riding a goose into a writer seated at his typewriter (or a pianist?) - which in turn evolves into accordion, bellows, money-bag, and handcuffs; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867.Date: 1863Reference: 12101iPart of: The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Dr. Charles Darwin
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Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
Date: 1834Reference: 27454i
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Work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, 1877, after E. Muybridge.
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.Date: 20 October 1877Reference: 25225i