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"So sparrows are not acute and crafty birds but #fools that behave in an idiotic manner!" Charles #Darwin writing to Arthur Butler on 9 May 1877 #histsci @MyDearDarwin @Cambridge_Uni https://t.co/AQTh6VrqNJ Passer domesticus, house sparrow by William MacGillivray (1796-1852)

We aren't blue, we are yellow! Chaetodon miliaris, Butterfly fish by E. Gertrude Norrie (fl.1900s) #FishyFriday. View Norrie's original artwork collection of 133 Hawaiian fishes and 3 invertebrates #DigitisedCollections https://t.co/PedMPvA0ZC

For #FernFriday we thought we’d share with you the original artwork that the self-taught English naturalist and botanist James Bolton (1735-1799) undertook for his publication Filices Britannicae. #DigitisedCollections #PublicDomain https://t.co/H16NwrTAVZ

This box contains the original zoological manuscript slips that Daniel Solander wrote on the #Endeavour voyage (1768-1771). Learn more about the Endeavour collections and Joseph Banks (1743-1820) in the new issue of @NHM_London‘s Evolve magazine that is out now #WoodenWednesday

Scientific knowledge of the pangolin or scaly anteater has increased significantly in recent history. Our collections reflect the historical development of such research and provide access to the most update scientific research into this incredible mammal #WorldPangolinDay

The tongue of a pangolin can grow up to 40 cm in length! #WorldPangolinDay #Tonguetastic #Factoids (Unknown artist from the John Reeves (1774-1856) collection Zoological Drawings from Canton, China.

Use our Discovery Layer at https://t.co/Iv2FKoHPcl to search our scientific journal collections, both physical and born digital. Visitors to our reading room can view the latest weekly editions and access the majority of e-journals #FindOutFriday

Ferdinand #Bauer sailed with botanist Robert Brown to #Australia on the voyage of the Investigator. Leaving Spithead in 1801 under the command of Matthew Flinders, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate Australia. Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus
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Bentley spoke of snowflakes being the "miracles of beauty" in that "every crystal was a masterpiece of design; and no one design was ever repeated" and so ultimately when a snowflake melted, the design would be lost forever. Read more here: https://t.co/JXv2cm8Tuh

On the 6th #DaysOfChristmas … 6 maps by Prichard. A collection of 6 ethnographical maps illustrative of The Natural History of Man by J C Prichard (1851) @NHM_Library holds over 40,000 geological maps and atlases - search here https://t.co/XAMPryKQ57