ZSL Libraryさんのイラストまとめ

For #WorldBookNight we are holding some library tours for #ZSLFellows & Patrons, getting up close to our #specialcollections including these Edward Lear plates in two books "Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae" & "Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall"

Born #OTD 1832 Helena Scott Forde. With her sister Harriet Scott Morgan, she provided illustrations for papers in 'Proc. of the Zool. Society', now @JZoology & #SciArt for books about Australian species. https://t.co/DKm0mc2hBd p.323 & https://t.co/v3FANA9a5M p. 564 #WomensArt

Joshua Alder was born #OTD in 1792. Marine biologist, conchologist & co-author of these volumes about British tunicates, published posthumously in 1904-11. Alder and Albany Hancock also published on nudibranch molluscs in 1845.

Today is #SomethingScary of #Archive30. #DYK that #Dracula visited London Zoo? A Keeper recalled 'a tall, thin chap, with a 'ook nose and a pointed beard...He had a 'ard, cold look and red eyes.' #ExploreYourArchive

Mark Catesby was born #OTD in 1683.
As Emma says in her #blog "‘The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands’(published between 1731-1743) remained an authority on American natural history for over 100 years": https://t.co/COwiZ1uDv6

Oops yesterday was #WorldSparrowDay so apologies we are a day late with this lithograph of house and tree sparrows by Elizabeth Gould in "Birds of Europe" Vol. 3, John Gould, publ. 1837.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomensArt

Today is #WorldFrogDay & so we are featuring images in August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's "Historia Naturalis Ranarum Nostratium"(1758) - a classic book on the study of amphibians.
One of our #blogs highlights this wonderful book: https://t.co/M8HjCtV04Q🐸
#SpecialCollections

This #SciArt by Maud Horman-Fisher illustrates beetles collected on Kilimanjaro by #ZSLFellow Harry H. Johnston. He is mostly famously associated with the okapi but he collected a wide variety of animals.
#WomensHistoryMonth #InternationalWomensDay2022 #WomensArt

Franz Michael Regenfuss was born in Nuremberg, Germany & baptised #OTD in 1713. His 'Auserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere..', was published in 1758. The frontispiece shows sea gods & products of the sea surrounding a bust of King Frederick V of Denmark & Norway.

Here is a close-up of the #dodo in the corner of the painting 🦤
Unusual for a couple of reasons, firstly as it is one of the few depictions of a dodo from life before they became #extinct; secondly it is a rear view so you can clearly see the tail feathers🪶🪶🪶
#extinction