Worm Collection (page 2)

Chinese silk - dyeing and weaving
Chinese silk loom, is shown; the figure seated above among the machinery, appears to assist the labour by means of weight. Date: 1833

Chinese silk - winding from the cocoons
Winding off the silk into singles, but the woman appears for the moment to have left her post for the purpose of blowing the fire. Date: 1833

Chinese silk - cleaning the cocoons
The cocoons being completed by the insect, are being cleared of dirt and dead leaves, before they are removed from the frames. Date: 1833

Chinese silk - feeding the silk worms
Engraving showing the apartment in which the worms are fed and the manner in which the little trays containing the silk worms are arranged. Date: 1833

SLOW WORM
A Slow Worm is superficially like a snake, but is actually a legless lizard, distinguishable because it has eyelids. Date: 1950s

LONG WORM
A tapeworm taken from a patient in Paris by Dr Nicolas ?Antry on 9th June 1698 which measured 4 fathoms long before it broke off! Date: 1698

Bait fisherman, Kent
A fisherman sucks up lug worm bait with a vacuum device on the beach at Dungeness, Kent, England. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1990

Three types of Pipefish and a Seahorse
Three types of Pipefish and a Short-Nosed Seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus). The Pipefish are: Snake Pipefish (Syngnathus ophidion or Entelurus aequoreus)

Common Glow-worm - female - climbed on top of a cut grass stalk in the dusk - attracts males by glowing and waving abdomen from side-to-side - late in the dusk - midsummer - June (Lampyris noctulica)

Common Glow-worm - female - attracts males by glowing - holds to top of a cut grass stalk - dusk - midsummer - June (Lampyris noctulica ). meadow in Ural Mountains - Tchelyabinsk region - Russia

Bursa, Turkey - School of Silk Weaving / Silk Worm Farming. Fourth largest city and the first Ottoman Capital. Historically also known Prussa and later Brussa

Taenia solium, pork tapeworm
The pork tapeworm parasite can reach lengths of up to 8 metres. It is found in humans and animals which have consumed meat infected with the larvae

Capillaria philippinensis, parasitic worm
This worm species (Capillaria philippinensis) is a parasite of the human small intestine

Roundworm
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a parasitic roundworms head (x 1000 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Fish staring at worm on hook on a triangular Christmas card
Three fish staring at a worm on a hook on a triangular Christmas card -- Temptation, designed by Robert Dudley. Date: circa 1880s

Why Not Matches? WWI cartoon by William Heath Robinson
Lights for All: Trapping Glow Worms in Kensington Gardens. A typically ridiculous idea by Heath Robinson for trapping glow worms, thus providing light for Londoners during the black out. Date: 1917

Caterpillars & pupa, Margaret Fountaine
Page 11 from bound volume. Watercolour and ink on paper, 1909 by Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine (1862-1940). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1909

Tiger Leech / Painted Leech on a leaf, typical in lowland rainforest of Kinabatangan river floodplain (Haemadipsa picta). Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

Ascaris lumbricoides, human roundworm
The human roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) is the largest nematode to parasitize humans, growing up to 16 inches long

Old Maid card game - Sorry, My Mistake -- a bird thinks the pigs tail is a worm. circa 1950s

Lumbricus lumbricus, Earth worms copulating - Earth worms (Lumbricus lumbricus) copulating. Watercolour by Franz Bauer. Natural History Museum, London - General Library

Happy Families - Mr Flower. circa 1940s

Cooking and heating equipment 1929
Economical equipment for cooking and heating, products for Harrods catalogue building & decorating department. Date: 1929

Fungia, coral
Fungia is a free-living scleractinian coral. In this large example, almost 10 cm in diameter, from the Pleistocene of Yemen

Endpaper illustration, goslings and signpost
Endpaper illustration, goslings looking up at a signpost which points to market, to the duck pond, and to town. A bird with a worm stands on top looking down at them. Date: circa 1933

Slow-worm or blind worm and eastern glass lizard.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural History: Amphibia, Augsburg, 1794

Surinam amphisboena or tropical worm lizard, Amphisbaena species.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or

White worm lizard, Amphisbaena alba.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Plume worm, Serpula vermicularis.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Ophidonais serpentina worm.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Yellow-haired terebella, Terebella flavicoma.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Horsehair worm, Gordius aquaticus.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Frail caecilian, Caecilia gracilis, Typhlops lumbricalis, and red worm lizard, Amphisbaena alba.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles

Slow worm, Anguis fragilis, and Eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Algerian cylindrical skink, Chalcides chalcides, and four-toed worm lizard, Bipes canaliculatus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles

Common snipe, Gallinago gallinago, catching a worm.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own Natural History of British Birds, London, 1794-1819

Jackdaw, Corvus monedula, with worm.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own Natural History of British Birds, London, 1794-1819

A large fluorescent worm (unidentified) lies on a boulder near a stream in a primary rainforest. in river Danum valley conservation area; Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

Tiger Leeches / Painted Leech on leaves of low vegetation, typical in lowland rainforest of Kinabatangan river floodplain (Haemadipsa picta). Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

Engraving of worm-driven fire squirt
Engraving of people operating a large worm-driven fire squirt mounted on two wheels, to put out a fire in a burning building, reproduced from Besoni, Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum, 1568

Chocolate box design, bird with nest of eggs
Chocolate box design, featuring a bird at various stages, with a nest of eggs, then bringing a worm for three hatched chicks. Date: 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- three illustrations. A man in a room full of mice reaches for a plate of meat on a shelf. A bridegroom wheels his bride along the road in a wheelbarrow. A frog eats a worm

POLECAT
(mustela putorious) This lucky European Polecat has just caught a lovely fat worm. Date: circa 1860

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms awake from hibernation
Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms during second hibernation phase. Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms feeding on mulberry leaves Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms begin to construct cocoons Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering silkworms from egg paper
Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering the silkworms from the egg paper using a delicate feather brush. Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Bombyx mori Moths lay eggs on paper Date: circa 1909

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