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Which plants & animals to choose for your aquarium? Humphreys' "Ocean Gardens: The History of the Marine Aquarium" (1857) offered advice on creating & maintaining indoor “ocean gardens." Find it in #BHLib via @Fisher_Library @uoftlibraries ➡️ https://t.co/BXgajzFJ5R
With the holidays approaching, you may expect to see a Christmas Rose (Helleborus niger), but #DYK this species is poisonous? 😳 #SciArt by Sydenham Edwards for Curtis's "Botanical Magazine" v. 1 (1787), in #BHLib via @mobotgarden ➡️ https://t.co/xgi7i5gtWz #BotanicMonday
We're shell-ebrating #MolluskMonday with beautiful shell #SciArt! "Thesaurus conchyliorum, or, Monographs of genera of shells" (1847-87) is considered one of the rarest of all conchology books. It's freely available in #BHLib via @SILibraries ➡️ https://t.co/HuHUVymzYj 🐚🐚🐚
J.D. Hooker's "Flora Antarctica" describes plants discovered on the Ross expedition (1839–1843), which visited islands off the coast of the Antarctic continent. Explore it in #BHLib via @HarvardLibrary @MBLWHOILibrary @mobotgarden for #BotanicMonday ➡️ https://t.co/iBdFP31hCV
Get your crayons & colored pencils out this #BotanicMonday! Add some color to the #SciArt from "The Wild Flowers of California" (1902) by Mary Elizabeth Parsons, illustrated by Margaret Warriner Buck. Download from Flickr via @librarycongress ➡️ https://t.co/1kXLO45brq 🌸🌼🌺🖍
"The songs of birds may be considered as national melodies, for each has its own peculiar music." 🎶 Explore #birds through poems and #SciArt this #Feathursday with "The Language of Birds" (1837) by Mrs. George Spratt, in #BHLib via @FieldMuseum ➡️ https://t.co/qxPumqYMx7
The western spinebill (Acanthorhynchus superciliosus) and the tawny-crowned honeyeater (Gliciphila melanops) for #Feathursday! #SciArt by Henrik Grönvold from v. 11 (1923-24) of "The Birds of Australia". In #BHLib via @museumsvictoria @bhl_au ➡️ https://t.co/BOPDxvKRxW
Nymphaeaceae for #BotanicMonday! This #SciArt is from the 1868 quarto edition of "Illustrations of the Natural Order of Plants" by Elizabeth Twining (of the @TwiningsTeaUK family). It is available in #BHLib thanks to @IllinoisLibrary ➡️ https://t.co/4kxW8DfRxT #WomenInScience
Explore "The Floral Magazine" (1860-1881) for #BotanicMonday! Illustrators for this publication on popular garden plants included John Nugent Fitch, Walter Hood Fitch, James Andrews, and Worthington George Smith. Find it in #BHLib via @NYBG & @SILibraries: https://t.co/syxGKoa4LS
Tausch's "Hortus Canalius" (1823) describes and illustrates a selection of the plants found at the botanical garden of Emanuel Joseph Malabaila von Canal. It features #SciArt lithographed after F. Both. Explore the work in #BHLib via @HarvardLibrary ➡️ https://t.co/vYmiWxL8gX