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Natural history and the park: The Naturalist's Miscellany, vol. 22, by George Shaw et al...........BHL/Museums Victoria, https://t.co/L3VWsyK7vC

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2020-08-19

House sparrow, Passer domesticus.

These birds used to be incredibly common across urban areas of the UK, however, they've suffered a massive population crash recently with 71% decrease between 1977 & 2008 (RSPB)

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2020-08-13

Wood Warblers; two birds perched on the branch of a pine tree, by (Scottish, 1823-1909), who died (Aug 9). Pl 38 in “Birds drawn from Nature,” Edinburgh, 1862. Held at the , https://t.co/wNuM2i1hYZ

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2020-08-09

Artist Chet Phillips offers a new spin on some of the most of our time. In his latest artistic installment, the illustrator depicts icons as vintage, taxonomic pieces in his series entitled, https://t.co/2rVJS3IGSZ

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2020-08-07

Phlox “Asia,” first half of the C20th, by (English, 1873–1961), who died (Aug 4). Plate 272 Addisonia; source, , https://t.co/a95hjAIYyI

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2020-08-04

Natural history and the park: Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India........by J Forbes and WJ Hooker.....1813, BHL/NHML....4 vols..........https://t.co/ETBI7tQCZ9

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2020-08-01

Natural history and the park: The Swan and her crew, or, The adventures of three young naturalists and sportsmen on the broads and rivers of Norfolk, by GC Davies, 1889, BHL/Uni California, https://t.co/WJhyZBZIN8

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2020-07-26

Natural history and the park: Voyages d'un naturaliste, et ses observations : faites sur les trois règnes de la nature, by ME Descourtilz, 3 vols, 1893, BHL/Smithsonian ........ https://t.co/wDsjb1nSnd

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2020-07-21

A subadult wanders into the territory of a larger, more aggressive male and faces the consequences. Haven't seen much palaeoart of intraspecific fights featuring spinosaurids so this was fun to draw.

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2020-07-21

So let's pop up this reconstruction of an extinct along with its species-specific larval mouthparts. I mostly get asked to do slightly less exacting so I love the challenges work like this poses.

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2020-07-16

Natural history and the park: Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and archaeology, by FDC Godman et al, 1879-1915, BHL/Smithsonian, https://t.co/9DiyhNFEfH

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2020-07-13

The Visualizing Knowledge section of the exhib showcases the work of well-known historical & well as others who achieved less renown in their careers.

Pic'd: Musa, ca. 1631, by

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2020-07-13

Natural history illustration and the park: The MacGillivray art collection at the Natural History Museum........ https://t.co/idGBZlQJoA

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2020-07-11

Lankesteria parviflora, 1843, attr to (#SarahAnneDrake, English, 1803-1857), who died (July 9). Edwards's Botanical Register (text by John Lindley); source, , https://t.co/07CXdYdvhg

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2020-07-09

Happy to all! Theobroma (Food of the Gods) cocoa, looks very different from a foil covered choco bar. Here is an illustration from Köhler's Medicinal Plants, written by Hermann Adolph Köhler (1834 - 1879, physician & chemist)

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2020-07-07

Fleurs / Flowers, c. 1750, by (French, 1701-1780), official painter of the Jardin du roi from 1740. Held at ; source, https://t.co/qBUzLw5yax

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2020-07-02