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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

What a sweet day #NationalStrawberryDay is! 🍓🍓🍓 Here's an image of Fragaria chiloensis, a strawberry from South America that made the common garden strawberry possible. You can find it in "Pomologie française" (1846) in @BioDivLibrary 🍓 https://t.co/VXfGNOekPE

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