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🦋 The natural history of fishes, particularly their structure and economical uses
Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 1840.
https://t.co/LCAGiEj6aP
🦎 North American herpetology. v.2.
Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836-1840.
https://t.co/LnXG9amwfW
🦌 Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig /.
Frankfurt am Main: S. Schmerber, 1835-1840.
https://t.co/msGX2Q0cfq
🐸 North American herpetology. v.1
Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836-1840.
https://t.co/NUE9fkhGRa
@FrenchHist Would probably be the Loading the remains of Napoleon onto Belle Poule, 15 October 1840.
Painting by Eugène Isabey
Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
Japonais, 1798-1861.
Chats en différentes poses, 1840.
#CeJourLàCaspar David Friedrich meurt le 7 mai 1840.
Considéré comme l'artiste le plus influent de la peinture romantique allemande du XIXe, il refusa fermement les modèles antiques.
Le Voyageur contemplant une mer de nuages (1818) est son œuvre la plus connue.
🌸 The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany
London: William Smith, 1837-1840.
https://t.co/hhRuwv3Pk4
Late Lunch talk with Dr Jenny Gaschke on 15th April, 2pm:
This June the Musée des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux will open the intriguingly titled exhibition Absolutely Bizarre! Les drôles d’histoires de l’Ecole de Bristol 1800-1840. This is the sneak preview.
https://t.co/be30oGcPm0
🦎 North American herpetology: .
Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836-1840.
https://t.co/qZT8gG8Lq1
🐸 North American herpetology. v.2.
Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836-1840.
https://t.co/ZlGbLLLSna
Sir Benjamin Baker was born #onthisday 1840. #Forth Bridge, Aswan Dam and London Metropolitan Railway. He also designed the boat which transported Cleopatra's needle to London.
🌸 The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany
London: William Smith, 1837-1840.
https://t.co/tlJqmq7DSh
🦌 Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig /.
Frankfurt am Main: S. Schmerber, 1835-1840.
https://t.co/YkhY5twpyN
#DarwinDay and #FossilFriday so it's gotta be the ground sloth Mylodon darwinii, brought back by Chuck from South America and named for him by ghastly old Richard Owen in 1840.
Lots of preserved skin, nail, tissue and dung known from Patagonia.
Reconstruction by Concavenator
Capitaine de corvette en 1837, il servit comme second sur la Belle-Poule, la frégate commandée par le prince de Joinville qui ramena les cendres de Napoléon en France en 1840.
"To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic; but to dispense them worthily must, surely, be more beneficial to mankind."
Evelina, 1778
English novelist and diarist Frances Burney died #OTD in 1840.
Books by Frances Burney at PG:
https://t.co/P90DzBHH8J
🐸 North American herpetology. v.2.
Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836-1840.
https://t.co/kZSQGCLG1d