EditorialHalictus, Print, The genus Halictus is a large assemblage of bee species in the family Halictidae. The genus is divided into 15 subgenera, some of dubious monophyly, containing over 200 species, primarily in the Northern Hemisphere (a few species occur...
Editorial'Count Roupee' (Paul Benfield (1741-1810), civil servant and merchant. He went out to India in 1764 as a military engineer in the service of the English East India Company. He resigned his commission to become a private contractor, and built a successf...
EditorialGreater adjutant, Leptoptilos dubious. Endangered. (Gigantic crane, Ardea argala.) Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824.
EditorialEngraving 1811, profile portraits of 20 men, called nabobs, who are representatives of the East India Company that have returned home with newly acquired wealth, generally through dubious or corrupt means.
EditorialStegosaurus ungulatus, dubious species perhaps Stegosaurus armatus, Jurassic era, North America. Illustration by J. Smit from H. N. Hutchinson's "Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days," Chapman and Hall, London, 1894.
EditorialEngraving 1811, profile portraits of 20 men, called nabobs, who are representatives of the East India Company that have returned home with newly acquired wealth, generally through dubious or corrupt means.