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Textiles: six scenes of silk manufacture in China. Engraving, 1750.

The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...

Grasshopper (?). Watercolour, 1777/1783.

A female scorpion being led into a burrow by her mate. Reproduction of a photograph by P. H. Fabre.

Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.

An entomologist at work; represented by a composite man made up of insects. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley, 1830, after G. Spratt.

Textiles: various workers laying out mulberry leaves to feed silkworms. Engraving by B. Cole, 1753.

The birth of Christ; the Virgin kneels before the manger. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after P.P. Rubens.

A large paeony (Paeonia species) surrounded by various flowers and moths. Etching by W. Hollar, 1663, after himself.

A dragonfly on a lotus flower (Nelumbo species) held above the water. Watercolour.

Anatomie humaine : parasitologie : morhologie végétale.

Microscopy: parts of a flower [?]. Engraving [after Leewenhoek?].

Fifteen different insects and the plants they live on. Engraving by I. Taylor.

[Tamra maraeng].

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A dragonfly on a lotus flower (Nelumbo species) held above the water. Watercolour.

Anatomie humaine : parasitologie : morhologie végétale.

Microscopy: parts of a flower [?]. Engraving [after Leewenhoek?].

Fifteen different insects and the plants they live on. Engraving by I. Taylor.

[Tamra maraeng].