So our paper ""HaRePo (harm reduction by post): an innovative and effective harm reduction programme .." it is nice to do some applied science that helps people daily. If you can try to help an NGO or a community with your science brain it is so worth it!
https://t.co/3I0iayh2A5
#blaschkaeveryday is ending the Blainville week with a far too colourful model...The early Physophora myzonema made by Leopold with a more jewellery like approach but still! @NEE_Naturalist @BioDivLibrary @NHM_London (pic Peter Taylor)@NtlMuseumsScot. See you Monday!
#blaschkaeveryday ...is slower as restrictions ease. So this week Snails and Slugs. Less known and rarely pictured those land invertebrates were also produced by the Blaschkas such as the Leopard slug, Limax maximus (534) @CantMuseum @NtlMuseumsScot @corningmuseum
#blaschkaeveryday. Milne-Edwards book: "Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits" [@BioDivLibrary] was the main reference for Anthelia Glauca (004) and many others. pics from @nervous_jessica of a wrongly labelled model! And the Sea of Glass..@DrewHarvell
#blaschkaeveryday. One of the first book used by the Blaschka for star fish, brittle star and sea cucumber was published by Jan Adrianus Herklots (1819 -1872) a Dutch biologist. This includes Synapta fasciata [283]. 2 models @Cornell and UCD but 2 ways of mounting tentacles..
#blaschkaeveryday follow the trail of the sea cucumber led by Lorenz Oken illustrations copied by the Blaschka and turn into glass such as Thyone peruana [292] and Stichopodes monocaria [281]. Models @Cornell Chromo @UniHeidelberg Drawing @corningmuseum and tomorrow Synapta!!!
#blaschkaeveryday is entering cucumber territory..sea cucumber or holoturian. Firstly inspired by Lorenz Oken chromos such this Holothuria tubulosa [274] which later was sold also as a dissection [275]...
#Blaschkaeveryday is on the naked snail trail. Eolis or Aeolis then Aeolidia papillosa [369] was described by Alder &Hancock in their "A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca" [@bhl] published by the @RaySocietyBooks but also copied by Haeckel. @corningmuseum @Cornell
#blaschkaeveryday Nudibranch alley! The most influential scientists were Albany Hancock and Joshua Alder they published in Transactions of the Zoological Society of London Vol.5 1866 @BioDivLibrary a wonderful illustrated nudibranch article. The Blaschka kept pages in their...
#BlaschkaEveryday Jean-Baptiste Verany published in 1851: 1851 Céphalopodes de la Méditerranée. Mollusques Méditerranéens... @BHL with gorgeous chromos and the Blaschka copied nearly the entire book in glass starting with Octopus vulgaris (577) not all in a perfect state...