Images Dated 17th September 2010

Althea Frutex : Hibiscus Syriacus

Colour-printed, hand-finished stipple engraving entitled Althea Frutex : Hibiscus Syriacus, engraved by Joseph Marie Bessin (1765-?) after an original by Pierre Joseph Redout

19, 19th, Althaea Frutex, C19, C19th, Century, Colour, Engraving, Engravings, Flower, Flowers, Hibiscus, Illustration, Illustrations, Leaf, Leaves, Malvaceae, Nineteen, Nineteenth, Pla Nts, Plant, Plate, Plates, Red, Redout, Redoute, Rose Of Sharon, Shrubby Althaea, Syriacus, Syrian Hibiscus, Syrian Mallow, Vertical, White

E. coli bacterium, TEM

E. coli bacterium. Coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of an Escherichia coli bacterium in the early stages of binary fission, the process by which the bacterium divides. This Gram-negative bacillus (rod-shaped) bacterium normally inhabits the human intestines. Under certain conditions it may undergo rapid division, which increases its numbers to such an extent that it causes infection. E. coli cause 80% of all urinary tract infections, travellers diarrhoea and gastroenteritis in children. The hair-like appendages around the bacterium are pili, structures used for bacterial conjugation. Magnification: x25, 000 when printed at 10cm wide

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Set Design for Act II of the opera Lakme, by Leo Delibes (1836-91)

XJL379413 Set Design for Act II of the opera Lakme, by Leo Delibes (1836-91) by Chatiniere, Antonin Marie; Bibliotheque-Musee de L'Opera National de Paris, France; (add.info.: Lakme, premiere 1883; Libretto based on Pierre Loti's novel Rarahu ou Le Mariage de Loti (1880); The high priest Nilakantha forces his daughter Lakme to sing and so lure her lover Gerlad, a British officer, into revealing himself;); French, out of copyright

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