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Camphor Collection

Background imageCamphor Collection: Flowering plants

Flowering plants including mammee apple, mangosteen, vateria, camphor, bacuri, white cinnamon, ironwood, poppy, violet, nepenthes, pitcher plant, venus flytrap, etc

Background imageCamphor Collection: Camphor tree, Cinnamomom camphora

Camphor tree, Cinnamomom camphora. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Background imageCamphor Collection: Camphora or camphor tree, Dryobalanops aromatica

Camphora or camphor tree, Dryobalanops aromatica (Dryobalanops camphora). Critically endangered. Handcoloured illustration drawn

Background imageCamphor Collection: Bay laurel, camphor and sassafras

Bay laurel, camphor and sassafras
Bay laurel, Laurus nobilis 1, camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora 2, and sassafras, Sassafras albidum 3. Laurier commun, Laurier camphrier, Laurier sassafras

Background imageCamphor Collection: Chinese portraits, fauna and flora

Chinese portraits, fauna and flora including musk deer 4, duck 6, golden pheasant 7, tea 8, and camphor 10. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Background imageCamphor Collection: Camphor myrtle, Babingtonia camphorosmae

Camphor myrtle, Babingtonia camphorosmae
Camphor myrtle or camphorwort babingtonia, Babingtonia camphorosmae. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical Register

Background imageCamphor Collection: Cinnamon and camphor trees

Cinnamon and camphor trees
True cinnamon, Cinnamomum verum 1, and camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora 2 Laurus camphora. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Background imageCamphor Collection: Camphor laurel, Cinnamomum camphora

Camphor laurel, Cinnamomum camphora. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Background imageCamphor Collection: Draining off camphor oil, Formosa (Taiwan)

Draining off camphor oil, Formosa (Taiwan)
The islands main industry, draining off camphor oil, Formosa (now Taiwan), which was at this time a Japanese province. After the camphor has crystallised

Background imageCamphor Collection: Photography of a Smell by F Breitenbach

Photography of a Smell by F Breitenbach
The odour of camphor made visible: photography of a Smell by F Breitenbach. Exhibited in the Royal Photographic Societys annual exhibition, with an explanatory note headed

Background imageCamphor Collection: Crystals of silver solution and Dianas tree

Crystals of silver solution and Dianas tree, camphor, and niter.. Crystals magnified under a microscope- silver solution and Dianas tree 1, camphor 2, and niter 3

Background imageCamphor Collection: Laurier camphrier, camphor

Laurier camphrier, camphor
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageCamphor Collection: Weighting camphor. Illustration from Tractatus

Weighting camphor. Illustration from Tractatus
" Weighting camphor. Illustration from " Tractatus de herbis", edition of " De Materia Medica" from 15th century. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Modena

Background imageCamphor Collection: Plants / Laurus Camphora

Plants / Laurus Camphora
Camphor tree (laurus camphora)


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