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Explore over 200 plant & fungi species of #Ecuador with "Wildflowers & Landscapes of Ecuador". Released as an #ebook by @mobotgarden via #BHLib, the work presents the previously unpublished manuscript & watercolors of Mary Barnas Pomeroy: https://t.co/FTmVqoRhCm #SciArt #plantsci
For #BotanicMonday, explore Australia's first flora: A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland. Issued in four parts between 1793-1795, the work includes descriptions by James Edward Smith & #SciArt engraved by James Sowerby. In #BHLib via @HarvardLibrary: https://t.co/mNCDtxK6Db
Malaysian moon #moth (Actias maenas) and a large candy-striped #hawkmoth (Leucophlebia lineata) for #NationalMothWeek! #SciArt from John Obadiah Westwood's Cabinet of Oriental #Entomology (1848). Contributed by @ncsulibraries via @internetarchive: https://t.co/CLR7kRmF21
Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus), tievine (Ipomoea carolina), and a geiger tree (Cordia sebestena). #SciArt by Mark Catesby for his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, Vol. 2, 2nd Ed. (1754). Contributed by @mobotgarden: https://t.co/SSrDsemNvg
James Bateman’s The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala ([1837]-1843) is described as the “largest botanical book ever produced with lithographic plates”. Learn more about this beautiful #RareBook on #orchids, available in #BHLib thanks to @mobotgarden: https://t.co/DasJSWfIYq
"Nederlandsch Bloemwerk" (1794) was produced as a sampler of the variety of #tulips, #hyacinths, auriculas, & other #flowers available from Dutch nurserymen. Explore the 53 hand-colored engraved plates in #BHLib thanks to @HarvardLibrary: https://t.co/kdIk2kh5a3
The 9-volume "Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature" (1833-40) provides a #NaturalHistory of animals, plants, and minerals and also discusses their use in arts, crafts, and manufacturing. In #BHLib via @NHM_Library: https://t.co/ptHCDcZvA5
Dinoflagellates for #TinyTuesday! The Free-living Unarmored Dinoflagellata (1921) by C. Kofoid & O. Swezy features #SciArt made by the authors with the aid of a camera lueida from living material & colored by Anna Hamilton. In #BHLib via @GersteinLibrary: https://t.co/hl6kbbf3if
"Icones plantarum rariorum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis" (1840-44) illustrates & describes new or little-known plants grown at the Berlin Botanic Gardens. This #RareBook has recently been digitized in #BHLib thanks to @Kew_LAA: https://t.co/Yvf8lELQEW #SciArt #BotanicMonday
#FloraFriday: Papayas (Carica papaya) are described as treatments for parasitic worms in the digestive system in Flore Pittoresque et Médicale des Antilles, Vol. 1 (1821) by Michel Etienne Descourtilz with #SciArt by Jean-Theodore Descourtilz. Via @NYBG: https://t.co/Goq6XaQaBU