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Mark Catesby was born #OTD 1683, #author & illustrator of ‘The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands’ (publ. 1731-1743), it remained an authority on American natural history for over 100 years!
Do take a look at our #blog for more: https://t.co/cJJAJot26n

ZSL Library & #Archives will be closed tomorrow (Wed 15th March) due to the tube strikes. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Meanwhile here is a standard wing bird of paradise as featured in our guest #blog by @MaxSpokes13 : https://t.co/g6vC0GcEyn

Sir William Jardine was born #OTD in 1800. With his brother-in-law, William Lizars, they published the popular 40 volume 'The Naturalist's Library' 1833-43. It was comparatively low in price & helped to inspire a wider interest in natural history.
Parrots based on Edward Lear.

It is #BigGardenBirdWatch weekend!
Here are just a few of the birds you may be lucky enough to see, illustrated in John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain', publ. 1873. Great tit, blackbird and woodpigeon.
#BigGardenBirdWatch2023 #CitizenScience

A sawfish and a boxfish from the beautifully illustrated & handwritten manuscript notes of Samuel Richard Tickell, 1811-75: https://t.co/Eqjt65hecc
Today is the 11th day of our 12 days of #Fishmas, only one more day left for this celebration of fish in our #specialcollections 🐠

On the 9th day of #fishmas - fishes from the Francis Day Collection 🐟Banggai cardinalfish and a seahorse.
More about this collection: https://t.co/FWnZHRUgF4 & see some additional drawings in this #blog about ZSL Founder, Sir Stamford Raffles: https://t.co/B1ciYgC7MZ

Born #OTD 1776 – Charles Hamilton Smith. He assembled a huge collection of watercolour drawings to illustrate his books & talks. ZSL's former Secretary, Professor McNeill Alexander, presented ZSL with the Coulton portfolio of 55 watercolours, all except one are probably by Smith.

Happy #RobinDay
Illustration from Jemima Blackburn's 'Birds drawn from nature', 1868. She is cited on the title page as 'Mrs. Hugh Blackburn'.
The top picture is an adult robin, the lower picture is a young robin in its first summer.
#WomensArt

Today we start of our 12 days of #Fishmas with art works by an unknown artist, 'Kurachi fishes and crustaceans etc.' circa 1845-55. There are 122 original #drawings in this collection. Like to know more? ID No. ART10000246 in our Library catalogue: https://t.co/qm7In9sjfj 🐟🐠

Edith Durham born #OTD in 1863, anthropologist, artist, traveller. She illustrated 'Amphibia and reptiles' by Hans Gadow, 1901; wrote & illustrated 'Notes on the Mode of Feeding of the Egg‐eating Snake...' a paper in ZSL's Proceedings (@JZoology): https://t.co/8is7JDl5Ke #HERpers