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Photograph by W. & D. Downey of Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet (1827-1902) English chemist. Related images: V0025938

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0016658-M0016766

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0016658: Map of ancient church sites in the parishes bounding Loch Lomond surveyed by A.D. Lacaille 1919-1933

M0016659: Photograph taken during an outing as part of the the centenary celebrations of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, 7 August 1957

M0016660: Map of ecclesiastical divisions in France, 1905

M0016661: Map of the ancient provinces of France and the departments that replaced them after the French Revolution

M0016662: Illustration of a bird's eye view of the West Highlands from the Firth of Clyde northward

M0016663: Portrait of King Louis XVIII of France (1755-1824)

M0016664: Portrait of King Charles X of France (1757-1836)

M0016665: Portrait of King Louis XVI of France (1754-1793)

M0016666: Portrait of Cardinal Joseph Fesch (1763-1839)

M0016677: Illustration of a view of Pluscarden Priory near Elgin, Scotland

M0016678: Hydria (water carrier) showing a girl holding a casket, a youth with a basket and another girl

M0016679EA: Corinthian aryballos decorated with a figure of a man and birds in brown, early 6th century B.C.

M0016679EB: Corinthian aryballos decorated with a figure of a man and birds in brown, early 6th century B.C.

M0016679EC: Corinthian aryballos decorated with a figure of a man and birds in brown, early 6th century B.C.

M0016680: Two aryballos, Corinthian, early 6th and early 7th century B.C.

M0016681EA: Aryballos, Corinthian, showing three griffins in red and black on a light ground

M0016681EB: Aryballos, Corinthian, showing three griffins in red and black on a light ground

M0016682: Alabastron showing a swan and conventional decorations, Corithian, 7-6th Century B.C.

M0016683EA: Epichysis showing a squatting winged figure holding a bowl, 3rd century B.C.

M0016683EB: Lekythos showing Eros, winged and holding a patera, 3rd century B.C.

M0016684EA: Alabastron showing a swan and winged creature, 6th century B.C. / M0016685EA: Alabastron showing a swan and conventional designs in red and black, 7th century B.C.

M0016684EB: Alabastron showing a swan and winged creature, 6th century B.C. / M0016685EB: Alabastron showing a swan and conventional designs in red and black, 7th century B.C.

M0016686: Lekythos with red figure decoration on the sholuder showing a head and floral design, late 3rd century B.C.

M0016687: Two aryballos, one showing figures and other floral designs, 7th and 6th century B.C.

M0016688: Mastoid askos (feeding cup or oil pourer) showing two female heads, late 4th century B.C.

M0016690: Portrait of John Hill Abram (1863-1933)

M0016691: Portrait of Harold Ackroyd (1877-1917)

M0016692: Portrait of Theodore Dyke Acland (1851-1931)

M0016693: Portrait of Charles Kingsley Ackland (1859-1940)

M0016694: Portrait of John George Adami (1862-1926)

M0016695: Portrait of Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)

M0016696: Portrait of Aristides Agramonte (1868-1931)

M0016697: Portrait of John Aikman (fl.1860s)

M0016698: Portrait of Arnold Alcock (dates unknown)

M0016699: Portrait of Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake (1865-1925)

M0016700: Witch milking the handle of an axe, 1517

M0016701: Witches apprehended, examined and executed, 1613: title page

M0016703: Gaule: Select cases of conscience touching witches and witchcrafts, 1646

M0016704: The case of the Hertfordshire witchcraft consider'd, 1712: title page

M0016705: Drage: Daimonomageia, 1665: title page

M0016706: Wagstaffe: The question of witchcraft, 1671: title page

M0016707: Moore, Wonderful news from the north, 1650: title page

M0016708: Glanvill: Saducismus triumphatus, 1681: title page

M0016709: Stephens: Witches & witchcraft upon the persons of people, 1693: title page

M0016710: A true and impartial relation of the informations against three witches, 1682: title page

M0016711: Cartoon of Sir William James Erasmus Wilson (1809-1884)

M0016712: Portrait of Friedrich Albert von Zenker (1825-1898)

M0016713: Portrait of Nathaniel St Andre (c.1680-1776)

M0016714: Portrait of Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

M0016715: Portrait of John Charles Weaver Lever (1811-1858)

M0016716: Engraving of Caius College, Cambridge, from the street

M0016717: Engraving of Caius College, Cambridge, from the Fellows Gardens

M0016718: Drawing of the skull of a sheep

M0016719: Drawing of the idealized skull of a mammal

M0016720EA: Portrait of William Atkins (fl.1694) / M0016720EB: Atkins: The nature of gout, 1694: title page

M0016721: Parkinson: The Way to Health, 1802

M0016722EA: Boerhaave: Elemens de chymie, 1754: title page

M0016722EB: Boerhaave: Elemens de chymie, 1754: title page

M0016723: Portrait of Herbert William Allingham (1862-1904)

M0016724: Portrait of Henry Gray (1827-1861)

M0016725: Illustration of black hellebore, 1542

M0016726: Illustration of black hellebore, 1530

M0016727: Portrait of Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

M0016728: Portrait of Emile Coude (1800-1870)

M0016729: Two tsantsa, or shrunken heads, on stands

M0016730: Tsantsa, or shrunken head, on a stand

M0016731: Three tsantsa, or shrunken heads

M0016733: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition commemorating the bicentenary of EdwardJenner, 1949: general view

M0016734: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition commemorating the bicentenary of EdwardJenner, 1949: general view

M0016735: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition commemorating the bicentenary of EdwardJenner, 1949: general view

M0016736: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition commemorating the bicentenary of EdwardJenner, 1949: Jenner, his teacher and his friend

M0016737: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition commemorating the bicentenary of EdwardJenner, 1949: the introduction of vaccination

M0016738: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition commemorating the bicentenary of EdwardJenner, 1949: smallpox in England

M0016739; Portrait of Sir Zachary Cope (1881-1974)

M0016740: Portrait of Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982)

M0016741: Photograph of Jean Evrard (1807-1882)

M0016742: Chronological list of the writings of James Hinton (1822-1875)

M0016743: Chronological list of the writings of Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957)

M0016744: Chronological list of the writings of Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923)

M0016745: Chronological list of the writings of Sir Henry Thompson (1820-1904)

M0016746: Chronological list of the writings of Stephen Paget (1855-1926)

M0016747: Portrait of Edgar W. Todd (d.1950)

M0016748: Portrait of Edgar W. Todd (d.1950)

M0016749: Spanish royal child wearing amulets, early 17th century

M0016750: Spanish royal child wearing amulets, early 17th century

M0016751: De Osma family hierlooms: badger's paw, coral & enamelled gold bell, 17th century

M0016752: Woman wearing a bridal costume adorned with amulets, from La Alberca, Salamanca Province / M0016753: Amber facetted beads and a neckalce for a teething child

M0016754: Spanish amulets made of glass, bone, coral and jet

M0016755: Spanish amulets shaped as open hands, fragments of glazed pottery (Andalusian), copper and blue enamel pendant, white metal pendant with Arabic inscription and a badger's hand

M0016756: Elaborate jet fig-hands, 3 fomed as saints

M0016757: Crucifixes and Christian pendants

M0016758: Spanish amulets made of coral

M0016759: Glass amulets and beads, Spanish

M0016760: Glass amulets with facets and twists, Spanish

M0016761: Spanish amulets with lunar crescents in inner curves

M0016762: Jet amulets / M0016763: Medals and coins, including a Byznatine coin

M0016764: Spanish amulets shaped as bells

M0016765: Spanish amulets: heart forms and eye forms made from stone, shell, slate, jet, glass, silver and agate

M0016766: Spanish pendants and medals

M0016689: Portrait of Sir Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902)

M0016689: Portrait of Sir Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902)

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