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Henry Noel Humphreys' "Ocean Gardens" (1857) provided detailed information on which varieties of plants and animals to choose for a marine aquarium. View the work in #BHLib via @SILibraries: https://t.co/WMkwuN4f2N
"The Floral Magazine" (1860-1881) highlighted popular garden #plants. Illustrators for the work included John Nugent Fitch, Walter Hood Fitch, James Andrews, and Worthington George Smith. View the title in #BHLin via @NYBG & @SILibraries: https://t.co/1j3k9c13gl #botany #SciArt
#Orchids (Thunia bensoniae) for #BotanicMonday! #SciArt by J. Goffart for Lindenia: Iconography of Orchids, pt. 46-47 (1894). Contributed to #BHLib by the Peter H. Raven Library of the @mobotgarden: https://t.co/hA4zVUON5I -- #botanicalart
Explore medicinal plants for #BotanicMonday with "Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen" ([1883-1914]), featuring nearly 300 illustrations drawn by Walther Otto Müller and C. F. Schmidt and chromolithographed by K. Gunther. In #BHLib via @mobotgarden: https://t.co/mArNYiDGJT #SciArt
Explore the #biodiversity heritage of the Hawaiian Islands for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with "Indigenous Flowers" (1885), an important record of Hawaiian flora in the 19th century. Contributed to #BHLib by@National_Ag_Lib @USDA_ARS: https://t.co/zoOsIm0sjd #APAHM
"Histoire Naturelle des Poissons" (1828-1849) by Cuvier & Valenciennes attempted to catalog all known #fish. The 22 volumes feature nearly 5,000 fish. Explore it in #BHLib via @mayrlibrary: https://t.co/B09t4JSVEj #FishyFriday #SciArt #SciComm
Explore plant morphology through #SciArt for #BotanicMonday with August Batsch's "Analyses florum e diversis plantarum generibus" (1790), in #BHLib via @HarvardLibrary: https://t.co/H50cnSWFTJ #botany #plantsci
Tiger Lily (Lilium bulbiferum) for #FloraFriday! #SciArt by Sarah Anne Drake for Edwards's Botanical Register, Vol. 32 (1846), edited by John Lindley. Contributed to #BHLib by the Peter H. Raven Library of the @mobotgarden: https://t.co/6QcpZAEgxa -- #tigerlily #lilies
"Principal Poisonous Plants of Canada" (1920) by Faith Fyles was prepared as a reference for livestock owners to help them avoid pasturing their animals in "infested areas". Explore the book for #FloraFriday in #BHLib via @uoftlibraries: https://t.co/n6bee7CjCg
Happy #Feathursday! Abdim's Storks (Ciconia abdimii) are natives of Africa. #SciArt by Müller for Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Symbolae Physicae, Zoologica I, Avium, Part 1 (1828). Contributed by @SILibraries: https://t.co/7usbm1jimr #birds