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@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
Governor Hunter's drawing was later used as the basis for an engraving in David Collins' "An account of the English colony in New South Wales". #SciArt from 2nd ed. (1804) in #BHLib via @museumsvictoria @bhl_au: https://t.co/UA2aNejh6d #WombatDay #HistSci
#BotanicMonday: Pitcher plants (Nepenthes x mastersiana). #SciArt from The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Home Farmer, Ser. 3 Vol. 5 (1882), edited by Robert Hogg. Contributed in #BHLib by the @Kew_LAA of @kewgardens: https://t.co/Tck7toaZiG
🍫Happy #ChocolateWeek! The seeds of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) are used to make chocolate. #SciArt by Etienne Denisse for his lavishly-illustrated Flore d’Amérique (1843-46), in #BHLib via @NYBG: https://t.co/BsSdbkap5O #FloraFriday
#Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). #SciArt by Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert for Richard Lydekker, Wild Life of the World, Vol. 1 (1916). Contributed for digitization in #BHLib by the @GersteinLibrary of the @uoftlibraries: https://t.co/5XMiAmR6mZ
Happy #NationalFossilDay! James Parkinson, the 1st to describe "paralysis agitans" (later renamed Parkinson's disease), had an avid interest in #paleontology. Explore his "Organic Remains of a Former World" (2nd Ed. 1833) in #BHLib via @Naturalis_Sci: https://t.co/iuKcIwGc5W
By publishing his "Deutschlands Flora" in a minute format (measuring only 13-15 cm), Sturm was able to make his German flora, containing 2472 engravings, less expensive & thus available to as many people as possible. Find it in #BHLib: https://t.co/5ivqMo7EOW #FloraFriday
The European aspen (Populus tremula) is native to cool, temperate regions of Europe and Asia. #SciArt from J. Sturm's "Flora von Deutschland", Bd. 4 (1905) by Ernst H.L. Krause. Contributed for digitization by @Kew_LAA: https://t.co/mc1Ck4qV2r #BotanicMonday