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Wow, I'm as happy as this musk shrew as I just noticed I've now got over 900 followers on here!

This happy chappy is from 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' by Schreber (1774)

I've been saving something very weird for when I get to 1000 by the way...

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2019-06-11

Is everyone looking forward to the weekend?

Hoping there's sunshine, flowers, ice cream and whisky in abundance (or whatever makes you happy!)

Pretty flowers from 'Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle' (1849)

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2019-06-07

‘Eagle and wolf disputing the prize’

from ‘Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes &c &c’ (1814)

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2019-06-05

...we will be bringing rare plates from Banks’ Florilegium, showing the plants he collected on Captain Cook’s Endeavour voyage in all their splendour, to ! Visit us at stand N08 & see more rarities in our joint stand with Charlotte Du Rietz

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2019-06-03

Wow~ This gorgeous of the Magnolia altissima is stunning! Also known as the southern this can be found in, "The Natural History of Florida, and the Bahama Islands, 1771" by Mark Catesby and George Edwards from our collection.

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2019-05-30

Our June & auction is now online, featuring a fine & rare set of 24 globe gores for a 42 inch terrestrial globe by & much more! View the full sale catalogue here: https://t.co/OvgSellzLq

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2019-05-27

One of 150 extraordinary coloured plates of from 3-volume "The viviparous of North America" (New York, 1845-1848). Likely the biggest currently available on our

https://t.co/HuZA37fv3A

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2019-05-22

"It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious!"

Odd looking monkey from 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' (1774-1855)


➡️https://t.co/Dy9TVZVuY2

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2019-05-21

What did one bee say to the other when they landed on the same flower?

Buzz off.

I'll quit pollen your leg now and wish everyone a happy particularly the entomologists I share an office with!🐝

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2019-05-20

French Auguste René died 1838. Ten years earlier he had become famous as the first to reach and return alive.

Check our online inventory for a first Dutch edition of his important travel account:

https://t.co/SPUq5EUJdy

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2019-05-17

This beluga whale looks completely harmless and adorable but it is actually a dangerous Russian spy

Look at its face: you can tell it's hiding state secrets and planning many treasons

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2019-04-30

Dig this of a Chelonia Imbricata, the found in, "North American Herpetology; Or, a Description of the Inhabiting the United States, 1842" by John Edwards Holbrook from our Collection. Leatherback sea can weigh up to 2,000 pounds!

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2019-04-26

Today is so I just want to say *THANKS BATS* for eating all of my figs this year before I got a chance to pick them, and also for pooping all over the yard. Great effort this year 👏

from Proceedings from 1880

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2019-04-17

John Gould is famous for his works on birds, but when he visited Australia in 1838, encouraged him to also study the mammals.

He was particularly fascinated with the red kangaroo, which he considered a zoological marvel

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2019-04-16

Day 15 -
Sadly this is no longer our workspace, but previous in RCPI did get to work in the beautiful Dun Library. This photo, taken in the 1960s by , shows Miss Gardiner hard at work in the library.

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2019-04-15

TFW you're deathly hungover but all you have to eat in the house is healthy food

I *think* this is an opossum, and the is from 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' (1774-1855)

https://t.co/Dy9TVZDU6u

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2019-04-13

So here is plate 45 from 's copy of Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (RBR QL466.M47 1705) and I need your help, twitter:

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2019-04-11

TFW it's school holidays and you're somewhere between just needing five minutes to yourself, and leaving those two yapping little shits in the nest and flying off to Mexico

I mean, I don't have kids, I'm just going off the look on the adult bird's face🤷‍♀️

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2019-04-11