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Looking for a 'fresh bunch of old rhymes & tunes' for #ChildrensBookWeek? 'The Baby's Bouquet' (1878) held in our @cooperhewitt Library contains a number of songs with gorgeous illustrations by Walter Crane: https://t.co/IbRCpTURWv #SmithsonianMusic 🎶 #NationalPoetryMonth

What's black & white and cute all over? These adorable baby penguins🐧🐧🐧.

Celebrate #WorldPenguinDay with a journey to the Antarctic aboard the "Southern Cross" - read the report in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/a5074fNTzN

Not able to spend time outside on this #EarthDay? Then appreciate nature's beauty in these illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian - one of the 1st to show insects w/the plants they inhabited. See more in De Europischen insecten (1730) via @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/2UDXZ66bjM

After seeing Audubon’s book ‘Birds of America‘ at the 1876 World’s Fair, Genevieve Jones wanted to create a similar book about bird nests & eggs. The result, pub in 1886 and focused on Ohio birds, was beautiful. https://t.co/kkigedKrAp #WomensHistoryMonth #HerNaturalHistory

It's #InternationalWomensDay & the kick off of #HerNaturalHistory! Excited to join @BioDivLibrary to highlight amazing women, like @smithsonian 's own Mary Vaux Walcott: https://t.co/OOA097Uh97 🖼️: "North American Wild Flowers": https://t.co/JwI5FkJPu1 #BecauseofHerStory

One fish, two fish, all-sorts-of-hues fish 🐠🐟. "Atlas ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Neerlandaises" (1877) is a beautiful Dutch work that describes & illustrates fishes of East Asia. See more in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/dzxSRJxgRM #FishyFriday

For #FloralFriday , a few gorgeous examples of the work of Maria Sibylla Merian , all on one page. Merian was one of the 1st to show the lifecycle of insects & w/ the plants they inhabited. See more in "De Europischen insecten" (1730) in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/2UDXZ66bjM

This weekend, enjoy the floral wonders in "Lindenia", a five volume iconography of orchids in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/OiUvPdxCam . Learn more about "orchidelirium", a plant collecting craze in the 19th c. on the BHL blog: https://t.co/4SXf9Sqwv0

We recently completed digitization of "The Elephant's Head" (1908)! 🐘 Learn more about the elephant's trunk, called a proboscis, in this detailed tome of comparative anatomy now available in @BioDivLibrary: https://t.co/j2C1ErF9bR

The only thing that might rival the beauty of these botanical illustrations of stone fruit is their flavor. Who else is excited for peach season?!? Find more in "Pomologie française" (1846) https://t.co/gZBmF6s3vc in @BioDivLibrary!