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Happy #Feathursday! "Iconographie des perroquets" (1857) by Charles de Souancé features 48 hand-coloured lithographs by E. Blanchard and J. Daverne. Copies have sold for over 6,000 GBP, but you can access it for free in #BHLib thanks to @FieldMuseum ➡️ https://t.co/xwGYLwc5mu
Spadices surrounded by a leaflike bract called a spathe are typical of the Araceae. Schott was the earliest botanist to specialize almost exclusively on the family. Explore his "Icones Aroidearum" (1857) in #BHLib via @NYBG ➡️ https://t.co/CjGX2QIVBr #plantsci
Enough to impress the lady bustards? A displaying male Australian bustard (Ardeotis australis). #SciArt by Philibert Charles Berjeau from "Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London" (1868). In #BHLib via @NHM_London @NHM_Library ➡️ https://t.co/g74okw7b5J #birds
James Vick (1818-1882) was a pioneer in mass-producing color illustrations in seed catalogs. He included beautiful full-page chromolithographs in his catalogs. @National_Ag_Lib has digitized many Vick catalogs for #BHLib ➡️ https://t.co/4wugDvy1dn #BotanicMonday 🌸🌺🌻
The Harvard Icones features 249 watercolor figures of #fungi specimens collected & painted by Lewis David von Schweinitz, the Father of North American Mycology. Explore the history of this sketchbook, now in #BHLib via @HarvardLibrary Botany Libraries ➡️ https://t.co/EfxV9tnJUQ
In the archives of the Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany at @Harvard, there is a curious volume of 249 original watercolors of #fungi. Why is this sketchbook important to the history of mycological research? https://t.co/EfxV9tnJUQ #histsci @HarvardLibrary 🍄
@PlantLearner @columbiacss And a botanically Happy #Halloween to you as well!
Ghost orchid (Epipogium aphyllum). #SciArt by Walter Hood Fitch for "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" v. 80 (1854), in #BHLib via @mobotgarden: https://t.co/zRT4Hlvud1
@Bat_Week ♥️. One of our favorite bat illustrations in #BHLib is that of the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) from "The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle" (Mammalia, 1839), edited by Charles #Darwin. In #BHLib thanks to @NHM_Library: https://t.co/ZyAgvHRn9E #BatWeek
We're batty for #BatWeek! 🦇
Bats are the only mammals naturally capable of true, sustained flight. Bats on the wing by Archibald Thorburn from his "British Mammals" v. 1 (1920). Check it out for free in #BHLib thanks to @FieldMuseum ➡️ https://t.co/liXT09MrcJ #lovebats
🍎 🍐 Johann Hermann Knoop's "Pomologia" (1758) is among the earliest books on pomology to be illustrated with colored plates. It describes >100 apple & >90 pear varieties. Check it out in #BHLib thanks to @Cornell_Library @Mann_Library ➡️ https://t.co/fn3P8AaiSh #BotanicMonday