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Through J.D. Hooker, botanist William Henry Harvey received algal collections from expeditions to the Pacific and southern hemisphere, which he described and illustrated in "Nereis Australis" (1847-49), in #BHLib via @bhl_au @museumsvictoria: https://t.co/NvxIHf9Gmt #HistSci
New to the #BHLib @Flickr: "Hortus Canalius" (1823), by Ignaz Friedrich Tausch, illustrating & describing a selection of the plants found at the botanical garden of Emanuel Joseph Malabaila von Canal. Explore the #SciArt thanks to @HarvardLibrary: https://t.co/dmfY17bGoo
Happy #BotanicMonday! There are approximately 28,000 species in the Orchidaceae family. Explore some of those found in Germany with J. Sturm's "Flora von Deutschland", Bd. 4 (1905) by Ernst H.L. Krause. Contributed in #BHLib by @Kew_LAA: https://t.co/yzwhVmGbHP #plantsci #orchids
Fun fact: Mark Catesby taught George Edwards how to etch so that he could produce the plates for his "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds" (1743-51). Explore Edwards' work for #Feathursday thanks to @NLB: https://t.co/3fp9vnpwOu #birds #SciArt #HistSci
John Miller's "Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaeani", initially issued in 20 parts from 1770-1777 to 85 subscribers, attempted to illustrate Linnaeus' sexual system for plant classification. View the 1789 ed. in #BHLib via @HarvardLibrary @NYBG: https://t.co/8GyHqkvyb0
And the #UPickSciArt winner is? 🥁
Sloths!
You voted, we deliver.
L: Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus). R: Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (C. hoffmanni). #SciArt by J.G. Keulemans in Proceedings of the @OfficialZSL (1872) via @NHM_Library: https://t.co/LL5IryIg2s
Zoology of New Holland ([1793]-1794) describes & illustrates animals from Australia with text by George Shaw and hand-colored engravings prepared by James Sowerby. Explore this #RareBook in #BHLib via @museumsvictoria @bhl_au : https://t.co/RTCRMIFmZ3 #wildoz
Horse #Mushrooms (Agaricus arvensis) for #FungiFriday! #SciArt by Miles Joseph Berkeley for Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Illustrations of British #Fungi, Vol. 4 (1884-86). Contributed for digitization in #BHLib by the @GersteinLibrary of the @uoftlibraries: https://t.co/g1IKOSrxcz
Cardinal Flowers (Lobelia cardinalis) are native to many areas of the Americas. #SciArt by Margaret Roscoe for her Floral Illustrations of the Seasons (1831). Contributed in #BHLib by the Mertz Library of @NYBG: https://t.co/fx4rUNqP4Q -- #WomeninBHLib #WomeninScience
According to the preface of John Hill's "Exotic Botany", dried specimens were reconstituted for illustration by macerating them in warm water. Explore the 2nd ed. (1772) in #BHLib for #FloraFriday via @HarvardLibrary Botany Libraries: https://t.co/1IiNCqBOzY #sciart