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Happy Halloween! 🧙‍♀️🧹🕷🎃
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We will be sharing our favourite item ...

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2019-10-31

It's finally Halloween! 🦇🧛‍♂️🕷️

I'll be posting all things spooky from the

collection throughout today, starting with these bats from 'The Animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier' (1835-40)

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2019-10-31

Of course they found the clues and put it all together using books!

https://t.co/5aHRPbiSYN

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2019-10-30

It's nearly Halloween! What's spookier than losing all of your skin, then losing all of your flesh and innards? Clumsy.

Inside the human body from 'Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle' (1849) from the collection

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2019-10-30

As millions march for change the world over, we're looking to our beautiful avian friends in the Blacker Wood Collection

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2019-09-27

R is for Rosa. Everything is coming up roses in this copy of The first and seconde partes of the Herbal of William Turner Doctor in Phisick [615.3 TUR].

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2019-09-18

Louis de Freycinet was born in 1779

Freycinet voyaged around the world in 1817-20, unusually accompanied by his wife Rose after she was able to pass as a man to be allowed on the ship

The ship, the L'Uranie was wrecked on the Falkland Islands in Feb 1820

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2019-08-07

Getting hammered this weekend?

from ‘Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte’ by Gottleib Tobias Wilhelm (1799-1800)

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2019-08-03

When is a shark not a shark? When it’s a ghost shark

Ghost sharks are actually fish, whose closest living relatives are sharks

‘Ghost shark’, I’ve just discovered, is also the name of a B-grade horror movie that I DEFINITELY want to watch

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2019-08-02

When the existential crisis hits...

continues with this spinous from ‘A history of the fishes of the British Islands’ by Jonathan Couch (1862-65)

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2019-08-01

Sometimes get into our This critter lives in an book published in Paris, likely copied from art: https://t.co/tcwRMBid4F. We're over the insect's summer style—perfectly matches its pink & green plant!

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2019-07-28

It's season! Savor these sweet perpetually ripening in our collection. Jane Elizabeth Giraud painted this in her manuscript "The Fête of the Page through the whole volume: https://t.co/GFCcNMrv23.

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2019-07-24

Me on Friday after exercising and eating well all week VS. me on Sunday after blowing out all weekend

from 'The natural history of monkeys' by Sir William Jardine (1833) - not currently on btw so I'll get it in the queue!

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2019-07-19

Ready for some summer strawberries this weekend? These are from Joseph Descaisne’s (1807-1882) “Le Jardin Fruitier du Museum...” 🍓#botanicalart

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2019-07-12

Some very exotic bugs from the for the challenge 🦋🐛🐜

These beauties are from Dru Drury's 'Illustrations of exotic entomology' (1837)

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2019-07-10

What a day! Today has been a massive test, and happily I didn’t balls up my talk

I’m pooped now though, can’t wait to hit the sack

To cap it all off, I just realised I’ve tipped over 1000 followers! I’ve been saving this one...

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2019-07-06

Oh hi hive mind

Does anyone recognise this on the of a copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses, (Paris, 1583)?

Bodleian shelfmark: Buchanan g.32

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2019-06-26

I’m having a very slow day today - how about you?

Common garden snails from George Shaw’s ‘Naturalists miscellany’ with by Frederick Polydore Nodder (1790)

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2019-06-22