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Governor Hunter's drawing was later used as the basis for an engraving in David Collins' "An account of the English colony in New South Wales". #SciArt from 2nd ed. (1804) in #BHLib via @museumsvictoria @bhl_au: https://t.co/UA2aNejh6d #WombatDay #HistSci
#BotanicMonday: Pitcher plants (Nepenthes x mastersiana). #SciArt from The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Home Farmer, Ser. 3 Vol. 5 (1882), edited by Robert Hogg. Contributed in #BHLib by the @Kew_LAA of @kewgardens: https://t.co/Tck7toaZiG
🍫Happy #ChocolateWeek! The seeds of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) are used to make chocolate. #SciArt by Etienne Denisse for his lavishly-illustrated Flore d’Amérique (1843-46), in #BHLib via @NYBG: https://t.co/BsSdbkap5O #FloraFriday
#Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). #SciArt by Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert for Richard Lydekker, Wild Life of the World, Vol. 1 (1916). Contributed for digitization in #BHLib by the @GersteinLibrary of the @uoftlibraries: https://t.co/5XMiAmR6mZ
Happy #NationalFossilDay! James Parkinson, the 1st to describe "paralysis agitans" (later renamed Parkinson's disease), had an avid interest in #paleontology. Explore his "Organic Remains of a Former World" (2nd Ed. 1833) in #BHLib via @Naturalis_Sci: https://t.co/iuKcIwGc5W
By publishing his "Deutschlands Flora" in a minute format (measuring only 13-15 cm), Sturm was able to make his German flora, containing 2472 engravings, less expensive & thus available to as many people as possible. Find it in #BHLib: https://t.co/5ivqMo7EOW #FloraFriday
The European aspen (Populus tremula) is native to cool, temperate regions of Europe and Asia. #SciArt from J. Sturm's "Flora von Deutschland", Bd. 4 (1905) by Ernst H.L. Krause. Contributed for digitization by @Kew_LAA: https://t.co/mc1Ck4qV2r #BotanicMonday
Red-Headed Lovebird (Agapornis pullarius). #SciArt by Frederick Polydore Nodder for George Shaw, Naturalist's Miscellany, Vol. 1 (1789-1813). Contributed to #BHLib by @bhl_au and @museumsvictoria: https://t.co/NBa3R4YZhk #birds #birbs
Fauna Boica oder gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte der Thiere Bayerns (1830-1832), on the mammals of Bavaria, was the 1st volume in J.E. von Reider & C.W. Hahn's series exploring animals of the region. Explore it for #MammalMonday #BHLib via @National_Ag_Lib: https://t.co/A3AbMdeEhD
Feeling crabby after a long week? These crustaceans understand. But you can unclench your pincers, because it's Friday!
#SciArt by J.O. Westwood from "Transactions of the Zoological Society of London" v. 2 (1841), contributed in #BHLib by @NHM_Library: https://t.co/a6SSPjn9Eq