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"My humble effort is designed to lead the youthful and to cheer the weary spirit, by leading them, with a woman’s hand, to the Ferny Combes and Dells of Devon".
Follow Charlotte Chanter into a world of Devon ferns in her "Ferny Combes" (1856) ➡️ https://t.co/1ylMfAXaiu
Compiled by Kenelm Henry Digby, "The Naturalists Companion" (1810-17) is a museum in a manuscript. The album contains ~525 pages of text & ~450 illustrations sourced from other works & Digby's own experiences. Learn more via @statelibrarynsw ➡️ https://t.co/z4P1XuXR1E @bhl_au
"The Naturalists Companion" (1810-17), a unique manuscript compiled by Kenelm Henry Digby, features many Australian animals, attestation to the trade of Australian fauna throughout Europe in the early 1800s. Learn more via @statelibrarynsw ➡️ https://t.co/z4P1XuXR1E @bhl_au
The recipe calls for two ounces of ginger. Ginger, commonly used as a spice for cooking, refers to the rhizome of the ginger plant (Zingiber officinale).
A multitude of mollusks collected during the voyage of the H.M.S. Samarang, which surveyed the coasts of Southeast Asia & southern China from 1843 to 1846. View more in "Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang" (1850) via @SILibraries ➡️ https://t.co/9iKOaiKfWE #MolluskMonday
@UTKHerbarium LOTS of great cactus #SciArt from our collection in Flickr ➡️ https://t.co/O3Uvwyqg01
Some of our favorites are those by Mary Emily Eaton from "The Cactaceae", in #BHLib via @NYBG ➡️ https://t.co/YNGVXZ3uDh #FamilyOfTheWeek
"Iconographie descriptive des cactées" (1841-1847), by French botanist Charles Antoine Lemaire, has been described as "the rarest work on cacti ever published." Fewer than 20 copies are known to exist. Find it in #BHLib via @mobotgarden ➡️ https://t.co/NWd3obwDoI #BotanicMonday
"Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis" (1846) describes Indian fossil collections made by paleontologists Hugh Falconer and Proby Cautley in the 19th century. @amjukar explains how publications like this are important for modern research ➡️ https://t.co/mfJ16uhs37 #FossilFriday
"During the cold season these brilliant leaves are in full splendour".
Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) from Lena Lowis' "Familiar Indian Flowers" (1878), devoted to plants commonly cultivated in Indian gardens. In #BHLib via @IllinoisLibrary ➡️ https://t.co/gestiJ4823
Carl Linnaeus was a great admirer of George Edwards. He named nearly 350 birds on the basis of material provided by Edwards. But #DYK Edwards was also an important link between Linnaeus & Mark Catesby? @birdernewjersey explains via the painted bunting ➡️ https://t.co/yXkPFBdVnu