Images Dated 19th January 2012

Beekeeping, 19th century

Beekeeping, 19th-century artwork. Beekeeper extracting honey from honeycombs obtained from a beehive. Bees collect nectar from a wide range of flowering plants, bringing it back to their hive to store it and form honey. The honey is used as food by bee larva, and is also collected by beekeepers for human consumption. The most commonly domesticated bee is the common honey bee (Apis mellifera). Artwork from the 20th volume (second period of 1897) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

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John Knoxs Monument (1840 engraving)

"John Knox's Monument - an engraving from 1840 in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction'. John Knox (c1514-1572) was a 16th century Scottish clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland. The monument, within Glasgow Necropolis, was placed on a column at the top of a hill in 1825 by public subscription."

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Badger (Meles meles) adult in evening light, Derbyshire, UK. 2020VISION Book Plate

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