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M0009409: British men of science 1807-1808 assembled in the library of the Royal Institution

Mezzotint by William Walker and George Zobel, c.1860. The names of the men are inscribed underneath. Related images: V0050587, L0027317.

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0009330-M0009433

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0009330EA: Extracting a thorn from the foot, stone carving at Wells Cathedral, Somerset / M0009330EB: Toothache, stone carving at Wells Cathedral, Somerset

M0009331EA: Man being punished for stealing fruit, stone carving at Wells Cathedral, Somerset. / M0009331EB: Extracting a thorn from the foot, Wells Cathedral, Somerset.

M0009332EA: Toothache, carved stone boss, Lincoln Cathedral / M0009332EB: Toothache, wooden roof boss, Lincoln Cathedral

M0009333: Whytt: Observations on the Dropsy in the Brain, 1768: title page

M0009334: "Larrey's ambulance", sketch by Duplessis-Bertaux

M0009335: "Percy's Medical supply waggon", sketch by Duplessis-Bertaux

M0009336: Title page of a German medical text from c.1513

M0009337: Cauterization of wounds on the battle field, 1596

M0009338: Reduction of a fracture of the leg on the battlefield, 16th century

M0009339: Diagrams illustrating military ambulances of Europe and Africa with their interior design and basic equipment

M0009341: Portrait of Avicenna (c.980-1037)

M0009342: Avicenna visiting a patient

M0009343: Turkish description of a painting of Avicenna visiting a patient

M0009344: Zodiac signs, 13th century manuscript

M0009345: Two battle scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry

M0009346: Four sections of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting battle

M0009347: Four sections of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting battle

M0009348: Four sections of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting battle

M0009349: Four sections of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting battle

M0009350EA: Chatelain administering mandragon to a wounded knight / M0009350EB: A wounded knight carried to a monastery

M0009351EA: Man performing a tooth extraction, 14th century / M0009351EB: Man bleeding a patient, 14th century

M0009352: French surgeon operating on a battlefield

M0009353: Surgeon's tent near a battlefield

M0009355: Portrait of Christian Jurgensen Thomsen (1788-1865)

M0009356: Peruvian tapestry with animal motif

M0009357: Portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

M0009359: Statue of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

M0009360: Birthplace of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

M0009361: "The pillaging of Priestley's house during the Birmingham riots"

M0009362: Joseph Priestley's house and laboratory

M0009363: Priestley: Experiments and observations on different kinds of air…vol. III, 1790: title page

M0009364: Copulation scene, lime stone relief from Laussel, France

M0009365: Line reproduction of the copulation lime stone relief from Laussel, Dordogne

M0009366: Portrait of August Franz Josef Karl Mayer (1787-1865)

M0009367: X-ray of chest showing tuberculosis

M0009368: Cell nuclei in bacteria

M0009369: Typhoid bacillus with and without addition of bacteriophage

M0009370: Agglutination reaction

M0009371: Cholera vibrios with long flagella

M0009372: Typhus bacillus

M0009373: B. coli in cystitis

M0009374: Plague bacilli

M0009375: Staphylococci in smear preparation of pus

M0009376: Pure culure of staphylococci.

M0009377: Gonococci from a case of severe gonorrhoea: contrast staining with Ruschsin-Methylene blue

M0009378: Section of liver from a case of streptococcus infection.

M0009379: Smear preparation from pneumonic sputum stained by Gram's method

M0009380: Bacillus tetani: Film preparation from pure culture

M0009381: Bacillus welchii: non-motile gas gangrene bacteria furnished with flagella. Stained by "Zettnow's" method

M0009382: B. botulinus: pure culture, spores staining

M0009383: Bacilli diphtheriae: film preparation grown on serum platestained Neisser's method

M0009384: Actinomyces nodules in the lung with club formation predominating

M0009385: Spirochaetae of relapsing fever in human blood

M0009386: Spirochaetae of relapsing fever in mouse blood

M0009387: Spirochaeta icterogenes, dark ground.

M0009388: Mouth spirochaetes, highly magnified (Gerber)

M0009389: Film preparation from pure culture of B. Protus vulgaris

M0009390: Tubercle Bacilli in a specimen of sputum stained by the Ziche-Nielson method (after Richard Muir)

M0009391: Hindu forceps

M0009392: Unwrapped mummified remains of Ramses II

M0009393: Edinburgh Skull with trepanned hole in back of skull

M0009394: Edinburgh Skull: left profile

M0009395: Chemical laboratory, Paris, 1760

M0009396: Chemical laboratory, Paris, 1760: key for apparatus

M0009397: W. Trautschold, Leibig's Laboratory at Giessen. 19th C

M0009398: W. Trautschold, Leibig's Laboratory at Giessen. 19th C

M0009399: The Arrest of Lavoisier by Ludwig von Langenmantel

M0009400: Anthony D'Ailly's distillery, 1815

M0009401: Laboratory at Surrey Institution, London, 1810

M0009402: Design for a general laboratory. 1822

M0009403: "A first view of practical chymistry begun in the Universal Magazine in December 1747"

M0009405: Interior View of the Laboratory in the Royal Institution

M0009406: Chemical laboratory, Paris. 1760

M0009407: An optical experiment undertaken in a laboratory

M0009408: A chemical laboratory

M0009410: "Mirror of art and nature"

M0009411: Astronomical telescope with equatorial mount

M0009412: Large refracting telescope

M0009413: Large refracting telescope

M0009414: Astronomical telescope with equatorial mount

M0009415: Large refracting telescope

M0009416: Large portable refracting telescope

M0009417: Ramsden's machine for dividing mathematical instruments

M0009418: Herschel's 40 foot telescope

M0009419: Great telescope erected at Birr Castle, Ireland, by the Earl of Rosse

M0009420: Large refracting telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland

M0009421: Hartwell Manor Transit Room

M0009422: Craig telescope on Wandsworth Common

M0009423: The great equatorial telescope for Melbourne

M0009424: The great refracting telescope constructed at Dublin

M0009425: Temporary mounting of an achromatic refracting telescope

M0009426: The great equatorial telescope in the Dome at the Greenwich Observatory

M0009427: Interior of an Alchemical Laboratory

M0009428: Portrait of Sir Joseph Prestwich (1812-1896)

M0009429: Barbary macaque

M0009430: Bas-relief from a Temple of Anuradhapura, 18th century

M0009431: Barbary macaque, or magot monkey

M0009432: Barbary macaque, or magot monkey

M0009433: Helmont: Dageraed, oft nieuwe opkomst der geneeskonst, 1659: title page

M0009409: British men of science 1807-1808 assembled in the library of the Royal Institution

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