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Happy #Pride month! We've been creating pride flags using images from our collections, stay tuned for more to come on the significance of the colours and the collection items used! 🏳️‍🌈

It is #DayoftheSeal
James Clark Ross FLS was an adventurer. He located the North Magnetic Pole (1831) & charted most of Antarctica’s coastline. The Ross Seal, 1st described at Ross expedition 1841, smallest of the Antarctic pinnipeds, was named after him.
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It’s Friday the 13th, and while it may feel unlucky for some, we’d like to cancel out any bad vibes with this snake plant, Sansevieria. Known for their medicinal benefits, they also absorb toxins, as shown in tests by NASA. In Feng Shui, they are thought to bring good luck! ☘

Look! It's an Old Man's Beard (Clematis vitalba) with an old man's beard! Watercolour by JRG Gwatkin; owner of magnificent beard is Jacob Bobart the Elder (1599–1680), a German botanist and the first head gardener of Oxford Botanic Garden. @OBGHA
#EYABeards #ExploreYourArchives

For #nationalappleday we're sharing this lovely 1899 image of ‘Gustav’s Dauerapfel’, a variety originating from Switzerland in 1895. 'Malus pumila', the domesticated apple, has been cultivated globally for centuries, but apples originated from Central Asia.
#apples #taxonomy

September newsletter is now flying out! Packed with history essays, new events, medals and grant news, fascinating papers on the natural history of annelids, how birds fly and much more.
Read here: https://t.co/hGcq74zKAy
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#Haeckel was commissioned to undertake the identification of the radiolarians for British Challenger expedition in the 1870s & described more than 4,000 species of these exquisite unicellular organisms.
He went on to be awarded the Linnean Society’s Linnean Medal in 1894.

Wow, this lecture is definitely beyond my expectations. What goes on in those colonies? Let's say, a lot of drama. This lecture will be on our Youtube channel very soon: https://t.co/J8d4nmTlkW

We're excited to embark on our first Collaborative Doctoral Award ever!
How did Black & Indigenous collectors shape natural knowledge?
Work on archives under the supervision of Drs Senior & Thomas @BirkbeckArtsRes & @isacharmant @LinneanSociety
⏰2/5/22
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For our March Treasure of the Month: natural history as a subject for embroidery in mid-seventeenth century France. Head of Collections @isacharmant finds playful traces of three young French girls in a rare book. https://t.co/3V9qQejuPJ