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Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.

Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to scatter material from a bowl on a dead body lying on a funeral pyre, watched by women. Photograph.

Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.

Snake, boldly cross-banded. Watercolour by Bhawani Das.

Per post : Messrs. Bathgate & Company, 17 Old Court House Street, Calcutta, India / from Francis Cupiss Ltd., The Wilderness, Diss.

The new medical college hospital, Calcutta, India. Wood engraving, 1853.

Grasshopper. Watercolour by Bhawani Das.

Calcutta, West Bengal: young men placing the dead body of a man on a funeral pyre. Photograph.

Fish (Puffer Fish?): lateral and ventral views. Watercolour by Bhawani Das.

Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.

Preliminary report of a malaria survey of Calcutta and environs / by M.O. Tirunarayana Iyengar.

Note on the prevalence of the ankylostomum in Calcutta : (for the I.M.G. collective investigation) / by Leonard Rogers.

A year's experience of malaria at the out-door department of the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta / by J.W.D. Megaw.

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Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.

Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.

Preliminary report of a malaria survey of Calcutta and environs / by M.O. Tirunarayana Iyengar.

Note on the prevalence of the ankylostomum in Calcutta : (for the I.M.G. collective investigation) / by Leonard Rogers.

A year's experience of malaria at the out-door department of the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta / by J.W.D. Megaw.