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Cardinal Flowers (Lobelia cardinalis) are native to many areas of the Americas. by Margaret Roscoe for her Floral Illustrations of the Seasons (1831). Contributed in by the Mertz Library of : https://t.co/fx4rUNqP4Q --

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2018-08-30

According to the preface of John Hill's "Exotic Botany", dried specimens were reconstituted for illustration by macerating them in warm water. Explore the 2nd ed. (1772) in for via Botany Libraries: https://t.co/1IiNCqBOzY

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2018-08-24

(Genus Pyrus). by W. Müller from Äpfel und Birnen (1894) by Rudolph Goethe, H. Degenkolb, and R. Mertens. Contributed in by : https://t.co/2NoI4MXjaJ -- cc

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2018-08-24

Historic Because museums didn't always get it quite right.

(From "Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina" (1792), in via : https://t.co/3TCOeQn1UX)

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2018-08-23

This pollen is some sweet 👁 🍬! "Ueber den Pollen" (1837) is authored by German chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche, who earned his doctorate with an 1833 thesis on pollen. Indulge this in thanks to : https://t.co/Y91TL9Kf07

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2018-08-22

I'm giving a talk tonight to the Entomological Society of Victoria - our new contributors - all about the wonderfulness of . I'm replacing all my usual feathered & furred examples with creepy crawlies (which isn't hard - is full of bugs).

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2018-08-21

John Martyn's "Historia plantarum rariorum" (1728-[1737]) was the first flower book to be printed in color. It was devoted to new species growing at the Chelsea Physic Garden and the Cambridge Botanic Garden. View it in via : https://t.co/UxftckFzT4

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2018-08-21

Common Spiny Lobster (Palinurus elephas). (plate unsigned) from Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, Vol. 3: Mollusca, Annelides, Crustacea, Arachnides and Insecta (1834), by Pierre André Latreille. Contributed to by the of the : https://t.co/WUwFSn8W13

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2018-08-17

Amazon Water Lilies (Victoria amazonica) are white the first night that they open, and on the second night, they turn pink. by William Sharp for John Fisk Allen, Victoria regia (1854). Contributed to by : https://t.co/KhrKdfDWft

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2018-08-11

🦁 Happy (Panthera leo) by Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert from Alfred Edmund Brehm's "Life of Animals", Vol. 1: Mammalia (1895). Contributed in by the Research Library of the : https://t.co/nJ83aoXrum

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2018-08-10

Explore over 200 plant & fungi species of with "Wildflowers & Landscapes of Ecuador". Released as an by via the work presents the previously unpublished manuscript & watercolors of Mary Barnas Pomeroy: https://t.co/FTmVqoRhCm

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2018-08-09

For explore Australia's first flora: A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland. Issued in four parts between 1793-1795, the work includes descriptions by James Edward Smith & engraved by James Sowerby. In via : https://t.co/mNCDtxK6Db

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2018-08-07

James Bateman’s The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala ([1837]-1843) is described as the “largest botanical book ever produced with lithographic plates”. Learn more about this beautiful on available in thanks to : https://t.co/DasJSWfIYq

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2018-07-19

"Nederlandsch Bloemwerk" (1794) was produced as a sampler of the variety of auriculas, & other available from Dutch nurserymen. Explore the 53 hand-colored engraved plates in thanks to : https://t.co/kdIk2kh5a3

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2018-07-17

The 9-volume "Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature" (1833-40) provides a of animals, plants, and minerals and also discusses their use in arts, crafts, and manufacturing. In via : https://t.co/ptHCDcZvA5

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2018-07-11

Dinoflagellates for The Free-living Unarmored Dinoflagellata (1921) by C. Kofoid & O. Swezy features made by the authors with the aid of a camera lueida from living material & colored by Anna Hamilton. In via : https://t.co/hl6kbbf3if

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2018-07-10

"Icones plantarum rariorum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis" (1840-44) illustrates & describes new or little-known plants grown at the Berlin Botanic Gardens. This has recently been digitized in thanks to : https://t.co/Yvf8lELQEW

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2018-07-10

Kingfisher (family Alcedinidae) for "drawn from nature" by George Edwards in 1761. Published in his "Gleanings of Natural History" (1758-1764), contributed in from : https://t.co/aCJY07YiM2

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2018-07-06

Happy Georg Ehret's "Plantae et papiliones rariores" (1748-1759), which was published plate-by-plate to subscribers over a ten-year period. It is freely available in thanks to : https://t.co/mEQljgSLgf

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2018-07-03

Ornithologist John Latham's (born 1740) "General Synopsis of Birds" was translated into German by Johann Matthäus Bechstein, a pioneer in German ornithology. Explore "Allgemeine Uebersicht der Vögel" ([1792]-1812) in via : https://t.co/bzLTLFyle4

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2018-06-28