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Illustration published in Davis, Henry: "On the Rotifer Conchilus Volvox", The Monthly microscopical journal : transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, vol.XVI, 1876

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0016885-M0016996

1 photograph sheet film negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0016885: Surgical instrument makers producing items in their workshop

M0016886: Portrait of John Sheldon (1752-1808)

M0016887: Trade card of Gronier at the Sign of the Tare, surgical instrument maker, 1698

M0016888: Foundling Hospital, London: exterior view

M0016889: Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of chapel

M0016891: Annotated diagram of the brain of a chimpanzee, 1923

M0016892: Representation of the Madonna on paper

M0016893: Illustration of a pregnant woman with her abdomen open to show her womb and foetus, 1645

M0016894: Explanation of plate II, from Spiegel: Opera quae extent omnia, 1645

M0016895: Illustration of a pregnant woman with her abdomen open to show her womb and foetus, 1645

M0016896: Explanation of plate IV, from Spiegel: Opera quae extent omnia, 1645

M0016897: Portrait of Carlo Forlanini (1847-1918) / M0016898: Carlo Forlanini administering an artificial pneumothorax

M0016899: Drawing of a female visitor to the Saint-Victoire quarter, Paris

M0016900: Arnaldus: Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, 1553: frontispiece and first page

M0016901: Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632: title page

M0016902: Two diagrams of the structure of part of the brain, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016903: Explanation of plate II, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016904: Two diagrams of the structure of part of the brain, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016905: Explanation of plate III, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016906: Four diagrams of the structure of part of the brain, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016907: Explanation of plate VIII, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016908: Two diagrams of the structure of part of the brain, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016909: Explanation of plate IX, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016910: Diagram of the structure of part of the brain, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016911: Explanation of plate X, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016912: Two diagrams of the structure of part of the brain, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016913: Explanation of plate XI, from Spiegel: Tabulae anatomicae LXXXIIX, 1632

M0016914: Exhibition label about infant mortality during the 18th century

M0016915: Portrait of Paul Uhlenhuth (1870-1957)

M0016916: Exterior of Upton House, birthplace of Joseph Lister

M0016917: Plaque at Upton House, birthplace of Joseph Lister / M0016918: Advertisement for an optical projection apparatus, of the kind probably belonging to the Lister family

M0016927: Portrait of John Jacob Abel (1857-1938)

M0016928: Marble bust of Thomas Addison (1793-1860)

M0016929: Portrait of Leonard Horner (1785-1864)

M0016930: Illustration of an arm splint / M0016931: Illustration of apparatus for the correction of dislocations

M0016932: White House, Leyton: front view

M0016933: White House, Leyton: south side

M0016934: White House, Leyton: east side

M0016935: White House, Leyton: corner of the museum

M0016936: White House, Leyton: corner of the library

M0016937: Plate showing bees, from Federico Cesi's Apiarium, 1625

M0016938: Illustration of two men studying mammalian generation, 1749

M0016939: Portrait of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

M0016940: Portrait Thomas Addison (1793-1860)

M0016941: Illustration concerning studies in the movement of sap in aquatic plants, 1834

M0016942: Three amulets against cramp

M0016943: Diagram of a microscope in use in 1842

M0016944: Diagam of the achromatic substage condenser for use with the microscope, 1842

M0016945: Diagram of the horizontal achromatic microscope by Charles Chevalier, based on the modified reflecting microscope of Amici, 1839

M0016946: Illustration of a series of test objects for determing the quality of achromatic microscopes, 1848

M0016947: Illustration of Riddell's binocular microscope, 1853-1854

M0016948: Diagram of Tyndall's apparatus for experiments for disproving the doctrine of spontaneous generation

M0016949: Illustrations of Trichina spiralis, showing cysts, 1835

M0016950: Diagram showing the formation of chalk cliffs, 1838

M0016951: Drawings of rhizopoda seen through a microscope, 1841

M0016952: Drawings of various foraminifera, 1862

M0016953: Drawings of foraminifera: orbitolites, 1862

M0016954: Drawings of foraminifera: polystomella, 1862

M0016955: Drawings of various foraminifera in Great Britain.

M0016956: Mauley Cross, one of the remaining medieval roadside crosses of Yorkshire

M0016957: Geological map of Maidenhead district showing the sites of various gravel-pits

M0016958: Portrait of John Thomas Arlidge (1822-1899)

M0016959: Portrait of Sir Thomas Oliver (1853-1942)

M0016960: Illustration of various forms of vibrio, 1786

M0016961: Illustrations of monad, volvox and gonium, 1836

M0016962: Illustration of flagellate infusoria, 1871

M0016963: Illustration of Stanistreet's machine for micro-ruling on steel and glass, 1871

M0016964: Segmentation of the blastoderm, up to ten days, 1872

M0016965: Sections through the blastoderm up to ten days, and a vertical section through an embryo of 18 days, 1872

M0016966: Illustration showing the development of gemma and ovum in polyzoa, 1856

M0016967: Diagram of paludicella ehrenbergi, of the sub-class ectoprocta, 1856

M0016968: Transverse section of cephalic ganglia of Amphiporus lactifloreus and drawing of other parts of anatomy of this and Amphiporus pulcher, 1873

M0016969: Illustration of two types of protozoa: Coryne stauridiai and Noctiluca miliaris, 1853

M0016970: Illustration of blood corpuscles, 1880

M0016971: Illustration of preparations of bone, 1880

M0016972: Illustration of nerve cells, 1880

M0016973: Illustration of paccinian corpuscles, 1880

M0016974: Illustration showing cell division, 1880

M0016975: Illustration of the foraminifera collected by H.M.S. Challenger, 1864

M0016977: Illustration of various foraminifera, 1872

M0016978: Illustration of Ellis' ideas on the reproduction of the Actinoza, 1755

M0016979: Timothy Richards Lewis's drawing of the embryo filariae in mosquito

M0016980: Illustration of flagella in bacterium termo

M0016981: Two illustrations of Melicerta tyro, 1875

M0016982: Illustrations of monads, 1874

M0016983: Illustrations of a cercomonad, 1873

M0016984: A freezing microtome of 1873

M0016985: Bronze statue of Asclepius with his serpent staff

M0016986; Portrait of Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

M0016987: Hooke: Micrographia, 1665: title page

M0016989EA: Gray: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical, 1858: title page

M0016989EB: Gray: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical, 1858: dedication to Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie

M0016990: X-ray of a spine showing lesions from a woman from a pre-dynastic burial, Egypt

M0016991: Spine and hip bones showing "poker spine" from a person from the circumpolar region

M0016993: Langenbeck: Icones Anatomie, 1826: figure 2

M0016994EA: Journal of proceedings of the Linnean Society. Zoology: table of contents

M0016994EB: First page of Darwin and Wallace's paper "On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties", 1858

M0016995: Robert Hooke's drawing of a flea, 1665

M0016996: Illustration showing the reproduction of paramaecium bursaria, 1854

M0016976: Illustration of the rotifer conchilus volvox, 1876

M0016976: Illustration of the rotifer conchilus volvox, 1876

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