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These are examples of artwork from the John Reeves Collection (botanical drawings from Canton, China) which inspired in their recent clothing line. Chrysanthemum x morifolium, Plate 590 and Agapanthus africanus, lily of the Nile, Plate 961 https://t.co/wKWTXtcGXX

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Half time oranges any one?? Nope not us either! We are in the mood for pineapple! Plate 2 from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) Free to read via https://t.co/EnQNogCsH6

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Off the coat of arms of a baobab tree from the world's longest running botanical publication, William Curtis's Botanical Magazine (Vol.55,1828). See some more at https://t.co/41VkekCOff

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Poland's national bird, the White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). Our guy is Plate 4 from John Gould's 1873 'Birds of Great Britain', so he clearly gets around! View for free https://t.co/2JmlqGKWVg

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This is your last few days to see the British Natural History Exhibition in the Images of Nature Gallery then we close and reopen for Expeditions and Endeavours

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A stunning Peruvian formation - Zinnia peruviana (Peruvian zinnia)
Sketch 180 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770)

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Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862-1951) was a prolific illustrator of both scientific works and children's books. Her natural talents and chosen career were greatly influenced by her father the geologist and palaeontologist Henry B Woodward (1832-1921)

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Pinguinus impennis, great auk. Plate 46 from John Gould's The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873) hand coloured lithograph. View the book for free via https://t.co/y8qLypIQRv

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Pinguinus impennis, great auk. Plate 341 from John James Audubon's Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (and Son), London.

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