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Illustration published in Munro, Robert: <i>Palaeolithic man and terramara settlements in Europe</i>, Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd, 1912

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0015336-M0015436

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0015336: Model of three North American people manufacturing stone implements

M0015337: Illustration of flaking tools shaped like a crutch

M0015338: Illustration of indirect percussion method practised by Wintun people

M0015339: Illustration of indirect percussion method practised by Apache people

M0015340: Illustration of a device used for holding stones while pressure is being applied in the manufacture of implements

M0015341: Illustration of Ancient Egyptian artisans manufacturing flint knives.

M0015342: Illustration of implements used for chipping flint knives

M0015343: Three flint flakes, produced by Leon Coutier

M0015345: Illustration of a barbed point (harpoon) of antler, probably Bronze Age, from a lake dwelling at Latringen, Switzerland

M0015346: Three Egyptian flint knives, finely worked

M0015347: Diagrams showing the intentional fracture of flint and effects of blows

M0015348: Illustration of various flake implements of Abbevillian, Acheluian & Levalloisian type from East Burnham, Buckinghamshire

M0015349: Four views of Broch Age hut-circles at Valtos, Uig, Lewis

M0015350: Five views of Skara Brae Bronze Age village, Orkney

M0015351: Two views of a prehistoric artefact made in augite-granophyre, from Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

M0015352: Two views of a prehistoric artefact made in augite-granophyre, from Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

M0015353: Two views of a prehistoric artefact made in augite-granophyre, from Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

M0015354: Prehistoric artefact made in augite-granophyre, from Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

M0015355: Two views of a prehistoric artefact made in augite-granophyre, from Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

M0015356: Two views of a prehistoric artefact made in augite-granophyre, from Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

M0015357: Prehistoric artefact made in augite-granophyre, from Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

M0015358: Two views of a prehistoric artefact made in augite-granophyre, from Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

M0015359: Reconstruction of an Upper Palaeolithic homestead

M0015360: Six sherds of ornamented Neolithic B ware from Iver, Buckinghamshire

M0015361: Sherds of ornamented Neolithic B ware from Iver, Buckinghamshire

M0015362: Sherds of plain Neolithic B ware from Iver, Buckinghamshire

M0015364: Improvised tool consisting of an adapted jaw bone of a giant deer

M0015365: Four views of a heavy Acheulian core, boldly scarred, in piece of conglomerate flint, from Lent Rise, Burnham, Buckinghamshire

M0015366: Stonehenge: part of outer circle, Friar's Heel

M0015367: Broch of Mousa, Scotland

M0015368: Neolithic Lump of potter's clay found at Iver, Buckinghamshire

M0015369: Illustrations of bifacial implements, choppers and hand-axes, and a series of quartz artifacts

M0015370: Diagram of a section in "50ft terrace" of the Thames between Northfleet and Swanscombe

M0015371: Two views of an Acheulio-Levalloisian massive side-scraper from Yiewsley, Middlesex

M0015372: Map showing where in the counties around London palaeolithic non-flint artefacts have been found

M0015373: Illustration of Acheulian bifacial tools from Upper Boyn Hill Terrace, Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire

M0015374: Illustration showing what Swiss prehistoric lake dwellings may have looked like

M0015375: Rock carvings showing dwellings, Iron Age

M0015376: Diagram showing the disintegration of uranium as far as it was known in 1908

M0015377: Leduc's 'rabbit' experiment, showing strychnine ions passing through the skin from the positive pole during electrolysis

M0015378: Illustration of the "Thermoset Senior", a spark-gap diathermy machine

M0015379: Circuit diagram of a diathermy machine with a thermionic valve

M0015380: Diathermy machine with a thermionic valve: "The Exlem"

M0015381: Diagram showing technique for fulguration or non-contact monterminal surgical diathermy

M0015382: Diagram showing indirect fulguration, or monoterminal surgical diathermy, suitable for the destruction of very small superficial lesions

M0015383: Diagram showing electrocoagulation or biterminal surgical diathermy

M0015384: Illustration of a condensation couch for high frequency current treatment

M0015385: Patient undergoing treatment by diathermic hyperpyrexia

M0015386: Treatment of malignant growth of oral cavity by electro-coagulation: before and after treatment

M0015387: Illustration of a quartz mercury vapour lamp for ultra-violet light treatment, 1906

M0015388: Illustration of glass vacum electrodes for diathermy

M0015389: Treatment of papillomas of the skin by diathermic coagulation: before and after

M0015390: Treatment of skin cancer by diathermy: before and after

M0015391: Technique for inducing high frequency diathermy currents in a patient

M0015392: Portrait of Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852-1908)

M0015393: Portrait of Frederick Soddy (1877-1956)

M0015394: Photographs of spectra with strong ultra-violent radiation: carbon, tungsten, mercury vapour

M0015395: American type of baby's feeding bottle

M0015396: Portrait of Henry Lewis Jones (1857-1915)

M0015397: Portrait of William Edward Steavenson (1850-1891)

M0015398: Illustration of Kelvin's Quadrant Electrometer

M0015399: Circuit diagram for applying de Watteville current

M0015400: Diagram showing an interrupted galvanic current

M0015401: Diagrams showing current given with a Leduc interrupter

M0015402: Diagram showing two surged electric currents

M0015403: Portrait of Otto Brunfels (c.1488-1534)

M0015404: The Aquaduct of Nero, Piranesi

M0015405: Isola Tiberina, Piranesi

M0015406: Illustration of coriander, Fuchs, 1542

M0015407: Illustration of ivy, Fuchs, 1542

M0015408: Illustration of poppy, Fuchs, 1542

M0015409: Illustration of hyoscyamus, Fuchs, 1542

M0015410: Portrait of Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566)

M0015411: Large sculpted foot made of porphyry, Roman, 1st Century

M0015412: Large sculpted foot made of porphyry, Roman, 1st Century

M0015413: Large sculpted foot made of porphyry, Roman, 1st Century

M0015414: Child birth scene, fragment of marble Greco-Roman bas relief, 1st-4th century A.D.

M0015415: Cast of a bust of Sophocles in the Lateran, Rome

M0015416: Statue of Asclepius with a serpent staff, 1st-2nd century A.D.

M0015417: Headless statue of a pregnant woman, likely a cast

M0015418: Sculpted head, imitation of archaic Greek work, probably Roman

M0015419: Sculpted head in the manner of the mid-1st century A.D. Roman workmanship

M0015420: Sculpted head in the style of Roman sculpture of the 2nd century A.D.

M0015421: Bust of Hippocrates, Renaissance period

M0015422: Miniature bronze reproduction of Trajan's Column

M0015423: Statue of the Ancient Greek Goddess Hygeia

M0015424: Statue of the Ancient Greek God Apollo

M0015425: Statue of the Ancient Greek Goddess Aphrodite

M0015426: Bust of Antinous, a favourite of the Roman Emperor Hadrian

M0015427: Bust of the Roman God Mithras

M0015428: Statue of a nymph

M0015429: Double headed herm of Hercules and Alexander: side view

M0015430: Double headed herm of Hercules and Alexander: view of one face

M0015431: Double headed herm of Hercules and Alexander: view of one face

M0015432: Bust of a young woman in grey, black and red marble

M0015433: Bust of a a fawn

M0015434: The artists and the engraver of Fuchs: <i>De historia stirpivm</i>, 1542

M0015435: Illustration of the manufacture of woad

M0015436: Turksish ambulancemen conveying the sick to Balaclava

M0015344: Illustration of Mesolithic barbed points of bone and antler

M0015344: Illustration of Mesolithic barbed points of bone and antler

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