Illustration of the youngest brother of the Holy Maccabees, one of seven Jewish brother who were martyred…
"And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,…
"And Jesus when he was baptized, went up straightway from the water: and lo, the heavens were opened…
"Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, there was carried out one that was dead, the…
And behold, a woman who was in the city, a sinner; and when she knew that he was sitting at meat in…
"But he, taking her by the hand, called, saying, Maiden, arise. And her spirit returned, and she rose…
"And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.…
"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he was moved with…
"And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go and show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass,…
"Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican." Luke 18:10…
"And the chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. 11 And Herod with his soldiers…
"And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And they platted a crown of thorns and put it…
"And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the…
"Now when he was risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from…
"And afterward he was manifested unto the eleven themselves as they sat at meat; and he upbraided them…
"But Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but what I have, that give I thee. In the name of Jesus…
"And he arose and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen…
"And after the uproar ceased, Paul having sent for the disciples and exhorted them, took leave of them,…
Illustration of Paul, kneeling on one knee in the city streets, head bowed, awaiting execution. A man…
Saint Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Africa, sits among various other clergy and teaches from his writings.…
Illustration of a monk, riding horseback, surrounded by other Crusaders. Two other monks are in the…
"1. In rope-drilling, a cylinder, provided with a valve at the bottom, which is lowered into the drill-hole…
Illustration of the life-size marble statue located in Munich, Germany. It was found in 1620 in a moat…
This illustration includes numerous types of saws: a. Circular saw (right-hand and left-hand saws have…
"a. shank for fixing the implement to a bench; c. punch, hinged to a base b and e; and pressed upward…
"A duck, Fuligula or Fulix marila and related species. The common scaup inhabits Europe, Asia, and North…
"An apparatus drawn by oxen or horses, and used for scraping the earth in making or repairing roads,…
"An instrument having two or three sides or edges for cleaning the decks, masts, or planking of ships,…
"A draftsman's instrument for ruling parallel lines. It consists of a triangle so attached to a straight-edge…
"In entomology, shaped like the longitudinal half of a barbed arrow-head, or like the barbed end of…
The coin (front) bears the image of the Virgin Mary receiving Gabriel's salutation. The back of the…
"A seat or bench of a particular form. A sofa; especially a sofa of peculiar pattern, as a short one…
Also called Sexton Beetles, these beetles bury the carcasses of small vertebrates as food for their…
"A, acromion; C, coracoid; CA, carpus; CL, clavicle; H, humerus; M, metacarpals; O, ventral surface…
"In Greek mythology, one of two, or three, or an indeterminate number of sea-nymphs who by their singing…
An illustration of a pichiciago, a small burrowing armadillo. The front half of the animal is covered…
"A money formerly used in Scandinavia and northern Germany, in some places as a coin and in others as…
Two skullcaps used for defense of the head in the 16th century. The caps fit closely to the head. The…
"A fetid animal of the American genus Mephitis, M. mephitica... The animal inhabits all of temperate…
Mergellus albellus. "A small merganser or fishing duck...The male in adult plumage is a very beautiful…
"A small sail hoisted against the foremast forward of the galley-funnel when a ship rides head to wind,…
Circaetus gallicus is a "bird of prey inhabiting all the countries bordering the Mediterranean, and…
"An eel-like fish, Nemichthys scolopaceus; any member of the Nemichthyidae. The snipe eel attains a…
"An embiotocoid fish of the Pacific coast of North America, Micrometrus aggregatus; a name also extended…
"A weapon consisting of a penetrating head attached to a long shaft of wood, designed to be thrust by…
"One of the numberless microscopic bodies contained in semen, to which the seminal fluid owes its vitality,…
"One of the numberless microscopic bodies contained in semen, to which the seminal fluid owes its vitality,…
Chalybion caeruleum. "A family of fossorial hymenopters, or digger wasps. The prothorax is narrowed…
"An instrument for measuring the radii of spheres; a sphere-measurer. It is of especial service to opticians…
"An instrument which, when applied over an artery, traces on a piece of paper moved by clockwork a curve…
Latrodectus mactans. Spiders are "dimerosomatous - that is, have the body divided into two principal…
Tradescantia virginica. "It is a native of the central and southern United States, and was early introduced…
"A large nail or pin, generally of iron. The larger forms of spikes, particularly railroad spikes, are…
"A large nail or pin, generally of iron. The larger forms of spikes, particularly railroad spikes, are…
"A large nail or pin, generally of iron. The larger forms of spikes, particularly railroad spikes, are…
"A large nail or pin, generally of iron. The larger forms of spikes, particularly railroad spikes, are…
"A large nail or pin, generally of iron. The larger forms of spikes, particularly railroad spikes, are…
"A large nail or pin, generally of iron. The larger forms of spikes, particularly railroad spikes, are…
Illustration of magnified Spirochaeta obermeieri. This genus of bacteria have "the cells united in long…