Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), German naturalist and scientific illustrator who left her husband and traveled to Suriname to study in an age of extreme restriction on women

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Tonight! Hans Sloane was a physician, naturalist & collector noted for bequeathing his collection for what would become the .

Weds. 1/31 for "The Origins of Public Museums: Hans Sloane’s Collections and the Creation of the British Museum." https://t.co/EkVhQHJeu4

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Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th century naturalist & science illustrator, & first person to illustrate entire life cycles insects. She discovered facts about plants/insects not previously known. "Her passion for insects changed science" https://t.co/6Os2zXpqmc https://t.co/4yIbybFlFc

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Schizodactylus monstrosus, a large found in by Richard Polydore Nodder for George Shaw's "The Naturalist's Miscellany" (1789-1813), V.18. Contributed to by https://t.co/3PAVoeLOnj

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Hans Sloane was a physician, naturalist & collector noted for bequeathing his collection for what would become the .

Join us Weds. 1/31 for "The Origins of Public Museums: Hans Sloane’s Collections and the Creation of the British Museum." https://t.co/FfCFEbiHbn

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The Winter Aconite, Eranthis hyemalis is a member of the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. Native to calcareous woodlands of Southern Europe, it was introduced to Britain as a garden plant in 1596. Now widely naturalised it was first recorded in the wild in 1838.

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Finding inspiration in Japanese woodblock prints from Hiroshige and Hokusai, which he owned, Gauguin developed the idea of non-naturalistic landscapes.

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Pomegranate taken from ‘Plantae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini’ by Georg Dionysius Ehret, Johann Jacob Haid, Christoph Jacob Trew.
Published 1750.
Missouri Botanical Garden. https://t.co/xU8mK4nDxj

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Hans Sloane was a physician, naturalist & collector noted for bequeathing his collection for what would become the .

Join us Jan 31 for "The Origins of Public Museums: Hans Sloane’s Collections and the Creation of the British Museum." https://t.co/ZSXD4OTAah

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José de nació en 1591. Pintor, dibujante y grabador, desarrolló casi toda su carrera en Italia. Tuvo gran éxito gracias a su estilo naturalista, próximo a Caravaggio https://t.co/ujDoNYupAT

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our greatest living naturalist, wrote my favorite book of the year

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Un carillon fatto di per augurarvi una buona di 🎄 ma aspettate un momento ✋🏻sapevate che i datteri sono ricchi di ferro💪🏻, contengono zuccheri naturali 👍🏻 sono un vero e proprio antinfiammatorio naturale?
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from a A comic inspired partly by Douglas Dewar's essay 'A Naturalist in a Railway Train', and partly by true incidents, that appears in my column with this month. Birders who have taken trains will relate :) Read on- https://t.co/oeFN4NYa7t

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Beautiful pochoir illustrations from the Wassons' Mushrooms, Russia, and history (1957). These illustrations were based on watercolor paintings by the French naturalist Jean-Henri Fabre https://t.co/vcTmvZzSp3

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Gregory Frank Harris - Primavera en los campos

El naturalismo norteamericano

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Gambel's Quail is named for William Gambel, a naturalist and explorer who braved the untamed lands of the American Southwest in the 1800s.

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若いダイヤモンド(*´∀`)

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