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Lilies (Lilium davidii) for #BotanicMonday! #SciArt by Matilda Smith for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 126 (1900). Contributed for digitization by the Peter H. Raven Library of the @mobotgarden: https://t.co/mP70TuSWNS -- #MBG #WomeninBHLib #WomenInScience #WomenArtists
Explore the mammals of the British islands for #MammalMonday with Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston's "British Mammals" (1903). Digitized in #BHLib by @AMNH: https://t.co/qflAJtlNqA #SciArt #naturalhistory
We're egg-cited about #NationalBirdDay & decided to shell-ebrate with "Illustrations of the nests and #eggs of #birds of Ohio" (1879-1886), a beautiful & #rarebook with <100 known copies: https://t.co/AYAw0LeDuQ
Learn more via @SILibraries: https://t.co/1fJLsN70Yz
The unpublished manuscript "Entomologia Terrae Novae" (circa 1833) by Philip Henry Gosse is considered the 1st attempt to classify & illustrate the #insects of Newfoundland. View it in #BHLib via @MuseumofNature: https://t.co/3Yo1WoJPog
Learn more: https://t.co/OKjaJSRs5d
"Plants of the Coast of Coromandel" (1795-[1820]) is a major work on the flora of #India. It features 300 hand-colored engraved plates after native Indian artists. Contributed to #BHLib via @mobotgarden https://t.co/qIAB8qOzOu #histsci #botany
"Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe" (1864) included 25 hand-colored lithographs based on drawings made from living specimens - which was important as sponges change color & shape when removed from water. View the #SciArt in #BHLib via @AMNH https://t.co/0Mt5N6ELVU #SpongeThursday
American malacologist George W. Tryon, Jr. was a co-founder of the American Journal of Conchology. His 1860s monograph documents terrestrial #mollusks from the U.S. https://t.co/rcmfu466vJ Digitized @Mann_Library @Cornell_Library #MolluskMonday
A study in beaks! Tahiti Petrels (Pseudobulweria rostrata), top: Pseudobulweria rostrata rostrata & bottom: Pseudobulweria rostrata trouessarti, with a larger, bulkier beak. Bulletin du @Le_Museum, T. 23 (1917): https://t.co/sdYTrpQf7T cc @Publi_MNHN
"Plantæ utiliores" ([1839]1842-1850) features #SciArt by Mary Ann Burnett & text chiefly by her brother, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, the 1st professor of #botany at @KingsCollegeLon. Digitized in #BHLib by @FieldMuseum https://t.co/LUYcK4aYM8 #BotanicMonday #WomenInScience