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Lampris guttatus, opah. Plate 39 by William MacGillivray (1796-1852) from his Watercolour drawings of British Animals, 1831-1841 #JanuaryBlues

#OTD 250 years ago Cook and Endeavour made landfall on Tierra del Fuego – sometimes called “the End of the World”. This depiction of Gunnera magellanica is one of 80 illustrations Sydney Parkinson (c.1745-1771) completed of the flora collected there by Banks and Solander #Cook250

Egretta tricolor, tricolored heron. Plate 217 from John James Audubon's (1785-1851) Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (and Son), London #JanuaryBlues

Sitta europaea, Eurasian nuthatch. Watercolour on paper 1830s by James Hope Stewart (1789-1883) #nationalbirdday

Casuarius bennetti, dwarf cassowary. Watercolour by John Keulemans (1842–1912) commissioned by Lord Rothschild c.1900 and drawn from a live specimen at his menagerie @NHM_Tring. Rothschild was fascinated with the giant flightless bird, collecting and studying them #JanuaryBlues

Paradisaea rudolphi, blue bird-of-paradise. Plate 29 from Richard Bowdler Sharpe's (1847-1909) Monograph of the Paradiseidae (1891-98). Both volumes free to view/download via @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/ZFEzIlvqnf #JanuaryBlues

Our Christmas gift to you orchid lovers! 'Illustrations of Orchidaceous plants 1830-1838' is scanned and available free on @BioDivLibrary. Learn more about this book, Franz Bauer (1758-1840) and John Lindley (1799-1865) in a new blog by Ben Nathan https://t.co/Ca5XLVRBoN

And yes. It happens. #MusMeme

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

Half time oranges any one?? Nope not us either! We are in the mood for pineapple! #ThereIsAlwaysOne Plate 2 from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium by Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) Free to read via @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/EnQNogCsH6 #WorldCupFinal #Worldcup2018