Gemma Steeleさんのイラストまとめ

Happy #Halloween

We have so much #spooky stuff in the @museumsvictoria library collection so I'll be sharing a few today starting with this #creepy ghost #bat from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1880)

@OfficialZSL
@BioDivLibrary https://t.co/64EIZ9yfZl

...and for the #hummingbirds, it has to be John Gould's sumptuous 'A monograph of the #Trochilidae', with #SciArt by H.C. Richter

Also available on @BioDivLibrary via @SILibraries https://t.co/Ri931uUC4P

#ButterflyAndHummingbirdDay #Libraries #RareBooks

Happy #butterfly and hummingbird day!

My go-to for #SciArt of #butterflies from the @museumsvictoria library is 'The Naturalist's Miscallany'

Our copies are on @BioDivLibrary for all to enjoy! https://t.co/elpNZ4oD7g

#ButterflyAndHummingbirdDay #Libraries #RareBooks

Who do you reckon is going to win the @AFL Grand Final tomorrow?

But more importantly, #ornithologists - who would in in an actual fight between an #eagle and a #magpie??

Images: John Gould, Birds of Australia
#AFLEaglesPies #AFLFinals #ornithology #birds #library #rarebook

“As I turned the fragile pages, I was unable to resist running my cotton-gloved fingers over the hand-coloured engravings. Butterfies danced, caterpillars chewed, glossy metallic cocoons hung suspended from the undersides of the leaves by the slenderest of threads”

#OnThisDay in 1936, the #Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger was named a protected animal, only 59 days before the last known specimen died in captivity

#SciArt by H.C. Richter for John #Gould's 'Mammals of #Australia', v.1 (1863)

Images via @BioDivLibrary #rarebooks #library

June 24 is #MuseumComesToLifeDay and here is one of my favourite @museumsvictoria objects brought to life: 'Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium' by Maria Sibylla Merian

Credit for gif: Richard Naples via #gifitup competition 2014, using source material from @BioDivLibrary

I always thought #otters were cute, but these ones from Audubon's 'Quadrupeds of North America' (1851-54) are frankly terrifying

I missed #WorldOtterDay, but I figure it's still yesterday somewhere...

Images via @BioDivLibrary & book also held @museumsvictoria library #RareBook

The @museumsvictoria library doesn’t have much botanical material, we transferred most of it to the @RBG_Victoria at some point, so starting to struggle with #MayFlowers posts! Here is gorgeous Merian’s ‘De Europische insecten’ (1730)
@SutroLibrary @iglibraries #SciArt #rarebooks

For the second week of the #LibrariesofInstagram challenge I've taken advantage of @BioDivLibrary's BRAND NEW full-text search feature to find some #coleoptera inhabiting some #MayFlowers

https://t.co/hk0IEvfUP8

@sutrolibrary @IGlibraries @SILibraries #SciArt