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Red-Headed Lovebird (Agapornis pullarius). #SciArt by Frederick Polydore Nodder for George Shaw, Naturalist's Miscellany, Vol. 1 (1789-1813). Contributed to #BHLib by @bhl_au and @museumsvictoria: https://t.co/NBa3R4YZhk #birds #birbs
Fauna Boica oder gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte der Thiere Bayerns (1830-1832), on the mammals of Bavaria, was the 1st volume in J.E. von Reider & C.W. Hahn's series exploring animals of the region. Explore it for #MammalMonday #BHLib via @National_Ag_Lib: https://t.co/A3AbMdeEhD
Feeling crabby after a long week? These crustaceans understand. But you can unclench your pincers, because it's Friday!
#SciArt by J.O. Westwood from "Transactions of the Zoological Society of London" v. 2 (1841), contributed in #BHLib by @NHM_Library: https://t.co/a6SSPjn9Eq
Through J.D. Hooker, botanist William Henry Harvey received algal collections from expeditions to the Pacific and southern hemisphere, which he described and illustrated in "Nereis Australis" (1847-49), in #BHLib via @bhl_au @museumsvictoria: https://t.co/NvxIHf9Gmt #HistSci
New to the #BHLib @Flickr: "Hortus Canalius" (1823), by Ignaz Friedrich Tausch, illustrating & describing a selection of the plants found at the botanical garden of Emanuel Joseph Malabaila von Canal. Explore the #SciArt thanks to @HarvardLibrary: https://t.co/dmfY17bGoo
Happy #BotanicMonday! There are approximately 28,000 species in the Orchidaceae family. Explore some of those found in Germany with J. Sturm's "Flora von Deutschland", Bd. 4 (1905) by Ernst H.L. Krause. Contributed in #BHLib by @Kew_LAA: https://t.co/yzwhVmGbHP #plantsci #orchids
Fun fact: Mark Catesby taught George Edwards how to etch so that he could produce the plates for his "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds" (1743-51). Explore Edwards' work for #Feathursday thanks to @NLB: https://t.co/3fp9vnpwOu #birds #SciArt #HistSci
John Miller's "Illustratio systematis sexualis Linnaeani", initially issued in 20 parts from 1770-1777 to 85 subscribers, attempted to illustrate Linnaeus' sexual system for plant classification. View the 1789 ed. in #BHLib via @HarvardLibrary @NYBG: https://t.co/8GyHqkvyb0
And the #UPickSciArt winner is? 🥁
Sloths!
You voted, we deliver.
L: Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus). R: Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (C. hoffmanni). #SciArt by J.G. Keulemans in Proceedings of the @OfficialZSL (1872) via @NHM_Library: https://t.co/LL5IryIg2s
Zoology of New Holland ([1793]-1794) describes & illustrates animals from Australia with text by George Shaw and hand-colored engravings prepared by James Sowerby. Explore this #RareBook in #BHLib via @museumsvictoria @bhl_au : https://t.co/RTCRMIFmZ3 #wildoz