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Pl. 30 of Shaw & Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany (v.3, 1791-92) is a #Spoon bill. Freely available @BioDivLibrary by @museumsvictoria - one of the many #Museum #Libraries which provide invaluable content from their collections for everyone https://t.co/rcnEqk9g9t #Museum30
Here's the finished #lithograph of the #vulture (Vol.1, pl.3) in Gould's Birds of Europe https://t.co/SGVNmXmvIz. All 5 volumes held by @SILibraries are freely available to view @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/HN5wrG4P5U #PublicDomain #RareBooks
Watching the commentary for #GuinnessSixNations #ITAvIRE and I thought one of the prints behind @BrianODriscoll looked familiar! It's #Alyogyne hakeifolia by #FerdinandBauer (1760-1826). The original #watercolour is held @NHM_Library #botanicalart
1/2 For #ValentinesDay here is some of #Audubon's account of the Passenger pigeon's mating ritual: Male assumes a pompous demeanour, follows female ... the body is elevated, the throat swells, the eyes sparkle ... they caress each other by billing ...
@LinneanSociety here's the original preserved @NHM_Library as part of a collection of 154 coloured drawings of birds, mammals, insects & plants painted from life by Bevere for Loten. Not just used by Pennant but others incl. Peter Brown & George Edwards #SquirrelAppreciationDay https://t.co/fj3ID6Hmqp
@TheLabAndField @NHM_London @RSPBNI @Natures_Voice @NHMdinolab Or final guess ..... a #sparrow ! (also by Sarah Stone (1760-1884) - more of her remarkable bird/birb paintings held by @NHM_Library here https://t.co/ft2fugMxEA) #PublicDomain #Birb
20 yrs ago today I first started work @NHM_Library - feeling old, nostalgic but smiling! #naturalhistory #curator
If only Neave Parker did 5 legged dinos ... oh wait! He did! #cetiosaurus #britishnaturalhistory #imagesofnature