Glenn Benson FLS 🦤🪴🍄🦠🧫さんのイラストまとめ

Died #OTD 1895, David Lyall, "botanical explorer of Antarctica, New Zealand, the Artic and North America", Fellow of @LinneanSociety (1862). Ast.Surgeon on HMS Terror under #Crozier on the #Ross expedition to #Antarctica (1839-43), part of Belcher's search for #Franklin 1852-4.

@LinneanSociety event: 'St Helena: Napoleon’s Garden Island' starts in about an hour.

This c.1829 British silk dress in the @V_and_A features two St Helena plants: Dicksonia arborescens (tree fern) and Wahlenbergia angustifolia (bellflower) it has been speculated. Agree?

@Alan_Measles at @victoriamiro fab

@LinneanSociety latest 'Treasure of the Month': John White’s Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales was published in 1790, and represents one of the earliest and most important first-hand accounts of Australian colonial history.

#LearnAboutLinnSoc

https://t.co/s7DZYbmhbA

Fellow of @LinneanSociety William Yarrell (1784-1856), who lived in central London all his life, (an urban birder?) included vultures in his book: "A History of British Birds" (1843).

The #taxonomy of clouds, a podcast by the @LinneanSociety. Cloud paintings by Luke Howard from the @sciencemuseum online collection. https://t.co/7hmqUBVVYv

Happened upon @cpdinosaurs in the @V_and_A collection. Love that the brief object description says rather matter-of-factly : "photograph of dinosaurs"

#InternationalVultureAwarenessDay here are some of these fine birds from the @V_and_A collection. #vultures #VultureAwarenessDay

Born #OTD 1753, Thomas Bewick, artist, naturalist. Zoologist , bookseller, and Fellow of @LinneanSociety, William Yarrell (1784-1856) named a species of swan after him.

#InsectWeek #InsectWeek22 day 2, some insects from the @V_and_A collection