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🥚Everything for a virtual egg hunt but the basket, courtesy of "Illustrations of the nests and eggs of birds of Ohio" (1886). Genevieve Jones started the book before death & it was finished by family: https://t.co/Ix2TLMIZ5a

Full book in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/iUGonXYC11

Pigeons might be prevalent if you're looking out a city window, but we bet you've never seen any like this! These exotic examples are courtesy of Madame Knip (and a bit of publishing drama: https://t.co/RDz7pk2vGT). Find the book in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/JgswPAXd6M

#DYK that manatees closest living relatives are 🐘s?

🖼️ from "Biologia Centrali-Americana", 1 of our 1st digitization projects & a resource still crucial to scientists studying natural history of Central America. @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/kF2b9sqlWR #ManteeAppreciationDay

Known for ground-breaking work documenting insect life cycles, Maria Sibylla Merian's illustrations included the plants and flowers on which the animals fed & lived. "De Europischen insecten" (1730) in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/2UDXZ66bjM #MuseumBouquet #WomensHistoryMonth

In 1826, Jules Dumont d'Urville set out on the Astrolabe to circumnavigate the globe. "Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe" documents the journey. The volume of mollusk illustrations highlights some of the invertebrates they encountered. In @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/p8ndcloh2E

For #Feathursday & #WomensHistoryMonth, celebrate the life & work of Elizabeth Gould, a talented and under-credited natural history illustrator. @book_historia explains more: https://t.co/8zO7JcXjrj. Images from "The Birds of Australia" via @BioDivLibrary: https://t.co/QHSBS7GCLq

Born #OTD in 1775: French botanist and illustrator Pierre Jean François Turpin, illustrator of these mouth-watering strawberries from 'Pomologie française' by Pierre Antoine Poiteau. See more botanic illustration of 🍓 🍑🍒 in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/3YUwWfknPb

For #FloraFriday & #WomensHistoryMonth, a few flowers 💐 courtesy of Mary Vaux Walcott & the "Smithsonian" printing process: https://t.co/ii1KT2eKSt

See the whole book, "North American Wild Flowers" in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/XQ06Lteb3k

#BecauseofHerStory

Celebrate #WorldWildlifeDay with the earliest book to depict North American wildlife - Mark Catesby's "The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands", published 1729-1747.

Browse our copies in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/JgKwmTSbaX

Vintage flower inspo for #FloralDesignDay 💐 .

Jane Loudon's "The ladies' flower-garden of ornamental annuals" (1840) is one of several gardening books by the author, who also wrote science fiction: https://t.co/SAQgrtksw8

@BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/qn2KLlErMY #FloraFriday