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The greater dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus major) is nocturnal and lives in forests and dry scrub areas in Madagascar. #SciArt by P. Charles Berjeau for "The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London" (1872), in #BHLib via @NHM_Library ➡️ https://t.co/jr0ECWwnB7 #MammalMonday
New to the #BHLib Flickr and perfect for #FishyFriday — "Hawaiian Fishes", featuring 12 beautiful chromolithographs of tropical sea fish found near the Hawaiian islands. Digitized by @SILibraries. Uploaded to Flickr by @NYBG. Explore it today ➡️ https://t.co/AxxmiRMI29 🐠🐡
The #SciArt for "The Indigenous Grasses of New Zealand" (1878-80) was produced via nature printing. The plant specimens were lightly inked and pressed onto the prepared surface of lithographic stones. Explore the work in #BHLib via @Mann_Library ➡️ https://t.co/C1a2zVPuBp
The #SciArt (by Frederick Polydore Nodder) in Thomas Martyn's "Thirty-eight plates, with explanations" (1799) was intended to help illustrate the structure of plants and their place in the Linnaean system. View the work in #BHLib via @Fisher_Library ➡️ https://t.co/06fSBcPlXV
Celebrate #FungiFriday with James Bolton's six-volume manuscript featuring 233 unpublished watercolor drawings of #fungi and descriptions of where each was found growing around Halifax, England. Freely available in #BHLib via @USDA_ARS ➡️ https://t.co/xw4jloB4Ym 🍄
#WorldWatercolorMonth + #BotanicMonday: Watercolors by Harriet Godhue Williams in a manuscript recording the plants in her husband, Stephen W. Williams', Herbarium. In #BHLib thanks to @HarvardLibrary @HarvardHerbaria @HistDeerfield @NewEngBotanical ➡️ https://t.co/JLGzVhadRA
It's #FungiFriday! James Sowerby's "Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms" (1797-1809), with 440 hand-colored engraved plates after Sowerby, has been called "one of the finest works on mushrooms and fungi". Find it in #BHLib thanks to @NYBG ➡️ https://t.co/cqsKhInmF9
In 1925, @smithsonian published some 400 watercolors of American-native wildflowers by Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) in the 5-volume "North American Wild Flowers" ➡️ https://t.co/K5fhJlmewd (via @SILibraries) #WorldWatercolorMonth #HerNaturalHistory #WildflowerWednesday
"Historia fisica, politica y natural de la isla de Cuba" (1838-1861) — providing a comprehensive study of Cuban natural history — took over 2 decades to complete. Complete copies are incredibly rare. You can find one in #BHLib thanks to @mobotgarden ➡️ https://t.co/HhElGtQYNB
Celebrate #BotanicMonday by exploring the flora of the Alps and Pyrenees Mountains with "Nouvelle flore coloriée de poche des Alpes et des Pyrénées" (1906-1912), available in #BHLib via @NYBG ➡️ https://t.co/nyREGKONa1
#SciArt in this post by Cecile Pfulb-Kastner.