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Happy #ChocolateDay to all! Theobroma (Food of the Gods) cocoa, looks very different from a foil covered choco bar. Here is an illustration from Köhler's Medicinal Plants, written by Hermann Adolph Köhler (1834 - 1879, physician & chemist) #chocolate #naturalhistory
Continuing with our #insect theme for #NIW2020: 48 beautiful #watercolour drawings of plants, #insects and spiders created by Indian artists and collected by William Carey (1761-1834)
#InsectWeek #Entomology #likeinsects #Archivecatalogueupdate
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#Watercolourdrawings of plants and #insects thought to be by renowned botanical illustrator #FerdinandBauer (1760-1826)
#NIW2020 #InsectWeek #archivecatalogueupdate #Archives
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We missed #InternationalArchivesDay yesterday! Our #archives are truly international: from the depiction of avocado on the island of St Vincent to that of a red panda in Nepal. #ExploreYourArchives
Discover more on our archives catalogue https://t.co/ChDn3Bk9k8
Stuck inside? Follow some of our adventurous Fellows in a series of upcoming blogs. Our first celebrates the Challenger Expedition, which returned home nearly 150 years ago today. https://t.co/iGONlXZp8D
Our collections include wonderful artwork by local and indigenous artists whose roles need to be recognised and celebrated. Here, John Tyley from Antigua illustrating plants from Saint-Vincent c.1800. #ArchiveInclusion #Archive30 #decolonisingmuseums https://t.co/IgTWwM6o6g
Mark Spencer @fungi_flowers, Botany Curator: W. Keble Martin's Concise British Flora. It’s a beautifully illustrated and accessible work that helped me learn my first wild plant names and get into the world of botany. #worldbookday #learnaboutlinnsoc 3/
Happy St David's Day! Here is a lovely illustration of N. pseudo-narcissus taken from F.W. Burbidge's The Narcissus: it's history and culture (1875) #daffodils #stdavidsday
This gorgeous screenshot is from a @LinneanLearning video! They have produced a variety of beautiful videos which explore the fascinating world of Carl Linnaeus, taxonomy and whole organism biology - all with strong curriculum links. #BiologyWeek https://t.co/Yh9ccXvUvT
Happy #NationalAvocadoDay This beautiful watercolour illustration of the Avocado was taken from Alexander Anderson’s Hortus Sti. Vincentii Tabulae. The actual artist was John Tyley, a young man from Antigua. Read more about him here: https://t.co/IgTWwM6o6g