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A reminder that the #CFP for our 1st #PhD #ECR Conference is still open! We’re looking for papers on any aspect of the history of natural history. Full details available here: https://t.co/lB9nM5UjIi Deadline 16th December 2022.
Today is #WorldFrogDay so if you are a Member take a look at this paper in our journal "Archives of Natural History" on the rains calls of frogs: https://t.co/fAtGkIdfcZ
Image: Wood frog (Rana sylvatica) in J Edwards Holbrook, 'North American herpetology', Vol. 4 (1842), pl. 24.
How Edward Lear's artistic genius led to the Owl and the Pussycat https://t.co/EhF9PxAGiZ
Today is #InternationalFlamingoDay & the birthday of John James Audubon so we simply could not resist tweeting Audubon's illustration of a flamingo in 'Birds of America' digitised @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/9IX487zSXC
#DYK #BookReviews are free to access for all? e.g.
"SCHMIDT-LOSKE, K. Die Tierwelt der Maria Sibylla Merian: Arten, Beschreibungen und Illustrationen" https://t.co/g5XSRCzXjD
Images thanks to @ZSLLibrary
#EntHist #WomensArt #SciArt
Looking for #weekend reading? Spend some time with our #blog by E. Charles Nelson about Mark Catesby, 1683-1749, #author & #Illustrator of "The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands", 1729-1747: https://t.co/UX08W5mvmM #GoodReads Images @BioDivLibrary
"The materials and methods of hand-colouring zoological illustrations", 1000s were employed over 2 centuries. Paper by C.E. Jackson in our journal 'Archives of Natural History': https://t.co/ZEyuzV0gmu
Free access for members #BusinessAndManufacturing #ExploreYourArchive #SciArt
#OTD in 1872 the HMS Challenger Expedition set sail from Sheerness - to read more see https://t.co/XKV46zZbyQ
.@NathanProbably is the 2019 winner of the SHNH W.T. Stearn Essay Prize - now you can read for #free his #paper "Provincial mycology and the legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)" in the latest 'Archives of Natural History': https://t.co/8SPG96R48F
#HistNatHist #Mycology
#OTD 1844 Henry Nottidge Moseley FRS was born. Moseley sailed on the scientific expedition of HMS Challenger (1872-1876). He studied invertebrate biology & the phylogeny of arthropods, coral and molluscs & published Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger in 1879.