Glenn Benson FLS 🦤🪴🍄🦠🧫さんのイラストまとめ

Finally got to see inside "...the finest 18thC church in London" , St Mary le Strand. Thanks to the works to pedestrianisation part the Aldwych, the church is no longer a traffic island.

Silver dessert service designs by S.H.& D Gass of Regent Street London, exhibited at the Great Exhibition 1851, modelled from water plants @kewgardens "by permission of Sir Willian Jackson Hooker" then Director of the gardens, and Fellow @LinneanSociety.

https://t.co/ePjkM1DKcT

Died #OTD 1863, Francis Boott, Fellow @LinneanSociety (1819) & @RCPhysicians (1826) & one of the 1st to discard the MD's black coat, white neckcloth, knee breeches, & black silk stockings, for the ordinary costume of the day, a blue coat with brass buttons, and yellow waistcoat.

Paint Your Portrait #Competition - 8-13-year-olds are tasked with creating a portrait of themselves alongside a plant that is special to them or that lives nearby. @LinneanLearning @LinneanSociety @BurlingtonHub

Details of how to enter are here
https://t.co/MD4GbgFh1a .

@DandelionAppre1 illustration by @HollyAstle

Further #unknownartists in @V_and_A

#Mammalogists #Zoologists @LinneanSociety please can someone identify the species of squirrel featured in these two 1820s watercolours from India / Bangladesh. Artist unknown. Currently labelled brown squirrel , black squirrel! Thank you!

The Fool's Head map c.1590 @Americanmuseum