VI.—A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata. Supplement for 1890

The first British illustrated surgical catalogue.

Surgical instrument catalogues are valuable documents, which help in both the identification and dating of instruments. A rare copy of the first British illustrated surgical catalogue was offered for sale in 2003. This paper gives brief details of the catalogue and its author, JH Savigny.

Germ theories of disease and British veterinary medicine, 1860-1890.

In standard accounts of the germ theory of disease the "Golden Age of Bacteriology" dawns in Germany in 1876, with Koch showing that a specific bacillus was the essential cause of anthrax.' Immunology, Jenner apart, is said to have begun three years later, in France, when Pasteur produced a protective vaccine by attenuating the bacillus of fowl-cholera.2 Modern microbiology began, therefore, wi...

Explanatory Supplement of the ISOGAL - DENIS Point Source Catalogue ⋆ , ⋆ ⋆

We present version 1.0 of the ISOGAL–DENIS Point Source Catalogue (PSC), containing more than 100,000 point sources detected at 7 and/or 15 µm in the ISOGAL survey of the inner Galaxy with the ISOCAM instrument on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). These sources are cross-identified, wherever possible, with near-infrared (0.8—2.2 µm) data from the DENIS survey. The overall surface cove...

Notes on the Additions Made to the British Pharmacopœia, 1890

British fossil fish and amphibian sites