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#HBD to entomologist and librarian Thaddeus William Harris, born #OTD in 1795! Harris first practiced medicine, but then became librarian of Harvard, where he lectured on various topics on natural history. Images: A treatise on some of the insects injurious to vegetation (1863).

Feeling fancy this #FoodFriday? Here's an assortment of sweets from Emile Herisse's The art of pastry and confectionery making (c. 1900s) you could make to impress friends and family!

#OTD in 1884, Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach was born! Rorschach is probably most famous for inventing the Rorschach test, a series of inkblots used to identify psychological disorders, like the ones here, from his 1948 Psychodiagnostik #histmed #histpsych

Still haven't decided on your #Halloween attire for tonight? This blog post might give you some ideas: https://t.co/0olCetsMOD

We're starting off Monday with some colorful butterflies from Georges Cuvier's The animal kingdom (1863) #naturalhistory

It's #NationalNutDay, so we're featuring these hazelnuts from Almeda Lambert's Guide for nut #cookery (1899)

Gaspar Schott, a German Jesuit and scientist, published his Physica curiosa in 1662. Like many natural history books of the time, it combined images of real creatures with fantastical ones, like the grimacing and gravity-defying centaur seen here.

Do not anger the goat! This trade card for Fer Bravais, a tonic that claimed to cure many illnesses, shows a couple of children who obviously did not heed this advice. It comes from our William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards https://t.co/B3AdBzz0DJ

Happy #NationalMushroomDay! These fetching fungi come from Mushrooms, Russia, and history, by Valentina Pavlovna Wasson and R. Gordon Wasson (1957)

We'll take them all, thanks! For #NationalDessertDay here's a page of sweets from Emile Hérisse's The art of pastry and confectionery making (1900s?) https://t.co/l3Ywx98cQI