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Did you enjoy our #HerNaturalHistory @instagram feed? Thanks so much to @HistSciArt for curating the feed for the campaign! ➡️ https://t.co/BNvyAEeLLN
Books on “Language of Flowers” presented the world of botany through dictionaries of flowers, floral poetry & prose. It was a popular genre for female authors. @chicagobotanic highlights this Victorian fad for #HerNaturalHistory: https://t.co/ISPjPK3OML
Anne Pratt (1806-1893) was one of the most popular artists & writers of the "Golden Age of botanical art". Producing 20 publications, she helped popularize flower study. @FieldMuseum explores her legacy for #HerNaturalHistory ➡️ https://t.co/zq4V3VVimy #FloraFriday
"Erucarum ortus" (1718) is a Latin translation of Maria Sibylla Merian's 2nd work, "Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung", depicting first-hand observations of insect life cycles & their food plants. See it in #BHLib via @LloydLibraryMus ➡️ https://t.co/iFcktbZ4vt #HerNaturalHistory
#HerNaturalHistory: Miss E. J. Beck illustrated the anatomy of scorpions for Sir Edwin Ray Lankester's "On the muscular and endoskeletal systems of Limulus and Scorpio" (c1883). In #BHLib via @Mann_Library & @Cornell_Library ➡️ https://t.co/2UE4e6WbX4 #WomensHistoryMonth 🦂
Ravens are common characters in mythology worldwide, ranging from symbols of bad luck to trickster characters & creator deities. #SciArt by Jemima Blackburn for "Birds from Moidart and elsewhere" (1895): https://t.co/LdRDCh11ES #HerNaturalHistory #FolkloreThursday #Feathursday
Ella V. Baines, who started her floral business in Springfield, Ohio in 1896, offered roses, plants, bulbs & seeds for sale via her catalogs. Explore some of those offered in celebration of the #FirstDayOfSpring & #HerNaturalHistory ➡️ https://t.co/sq0mHxUnYS (via @USDA_ARS) 💐
Happy #FirstDayOfSpring! 🌸🌺🌼
Celebrate the promise of spring blossoms with seed catalogs from Carrie H. Lippincott, whose business was the 1st seed company in the U.S. to be founded & managed by a woman ➡️ https://t.co/PuInh8ol8y #HerNaturalHistory #SpringEquinox
#HerNaturalHistory: #Gladiolus #SciArt by Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret for 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘶𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘦 (1899). Contributed in #BHLib by @HarvardLibrary Botany Library ➡️ https://t.co/cieE0cTNWz #5womenartists 🌼🌺🌸
"A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains" (1831) is the 1st publication Elizabeth Gould illustrated. She learned lithography from Edward Lear to produce the #SciArt. Explore her life & works via @book_historia & @SILibraries ➡️ https://t.co/fbsYS64ZmF #HerNaturalHistory