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The Art of Botanical Illustration
Online exhibit created at Univ. of Delaware Library, Special Collections.
Becker Medical Library Digital Gallery; Becker Portrait Gallery
Bioimages
Animal images, Southeastern U.S. plant images, etc., from Vanderbilt University.
Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection
A large teaching collection of slides arranged by topic and searchable, with thumbnails for browsing and medium or high resolution images available. See also Cover stories - American Journal of Botany cover images and explanations, 1998+.
Cell Signaling Pathway slides
Available for download for personal or educational use from Sigma-Aldrich.
Digital Morphology
National Science Foundation Digital Library at The University of Texas at Austin; library may be browsed by scientific or common name or by cladogram.
Images from Special Collections at the National Agricultural Library
Includes images from Curtis Botanical Magazine, v.1-5, 1787-1791, and other sources.
Environment Australia's Online Image Database
Flora of Europe a photographic herbarium
Image Collections - nice collection of links from UCSD Biomedical and Medical Center Libraries
Immunobiology Animations
Illustrations from Immunobiology, 5th ed. and 6th ed.
Access Excellence: Biotech Graphics Gallery
Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc.
from an award winning photomicrographer.
HONmedia
Medical images and videos collected by Health on the Network Foundation.
Images from Paolo Mascagni's Anatomia Universa
88 plates digitized at the University of Iowa.
Louis Agassiz Fuertes Image Database
Over 2500 bird illustrations from the collection of Cornell University Library and personal papers of L.A. Fuertes.
Medical Images and Illustrations
Links to sites arranged by broad subject area; list maintained by Karolinska Institutet, Library.
Medical Images on the Web
compiled at Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center, McGoogan Library of Medicine; images may be copyrighted.
Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery
Color photographs taken through a microscope; galleries include Proteins, Nucleotides, Amino Acids, DNA, Dinosaur Bones, etc.
Molecular Neurobiology: A Gallery of Animations
NIH Image Bank - images from the collections of the 27 institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health. Contents include general biomedical and science-related images, clinicians, computers, patient care-related images, microscopy images, and various exterior images. No fee is charged to using the images. However, credit MUST be given to the NIH/DHHS unless otherwise instructed to give credit to the photographer or other source. NIH images are in the public domain and CANNOT be copyrighted.
Pathophysiology Image Collections:
Organ System Pathology Images - WebPath
Pathology Education Instructional Resource (PEIR Digital Library) - Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
Urbana Atlas of Pathology
WebPath
Pelton Botanical Print Collection
"Original plates from herbals, plant histories, and botanical magazines published in the 15th through the 19th centuries, illustrating technological developments in early modern botanical, pharmacological, and medical sciences as well as the history and development of botanical illustration from woodcuts, to copperplate engravings, to chromolithographs." From Butler University Libraries.
USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
More than 7,700 drawings of fruit and nut specimens.
Tropicos Image Index
Plant images linked with their associated data in TROPICOS, the Missouri Botanical Garden's databases.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Images
Most images are public domain.
What you see is what you get: science images on the web, by Kristine M. Alpi
Whole Brain Atlas