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It’s a bloody scorcher in Melbourne today 😅

Here’s a couple of that look as hot as I feel rn from Curtis’ ‘Botanical magazine’ via

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2019-01-04

We've updated the section of our One of the items that were added is one of the greatest flower books published in the 18th-century .
https://t.co/Mho2aiw9SN

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2018-12-21

On the seventh day of my true love gave to me...
Seven a-swimming

from John Gould's '#Birds of Great Britain' via - https://t.co/jNzm0p7t2f

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2018-12-19

On the sixth day of my true love gave to me...
Six a-laying

Geese from a Larousse encyclopedia (1922), egg from Seebohm ‘A history of British birds’ (1883-95), collage by Kathy Heyward

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2018-12-18

Day 17
The familiar tradition of decking the halls with boughs of holly for winter festivals pre-dates Christmas. Today is the Roman festival of Saturnalia, when Romans would decorate their houses with holly & exchange gifts.

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2018-12-17

On the first day of my true love gave to me...
A in a tree

from Gould 'Birds of Europe' and 'Lessons from the vegetable world'; collage by Kathy Heyward

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2018-12-13

Day 11
A & Sami family, from a 1674 English translation of 'The history of Lapland', by Swedish humanist Johannes Schefferus. Did you know the Sami are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe?

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2018-12-11

Day 10
Will you be eating figgy pudding this Christmas? A tradition dating back to C16th, when fig trees became commonplace in English gardens. This hand-coloured by Johann Muller (or John Miller) dates from 1777.

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2018-12-10

Day 6
A little robin from Eleazer Albin's 'A Natural History of (1738-40). With over 300 hand-coloured engravings by Albin & his daughter Elizabeth, this was the first British work of to feature hand-coloured plates.

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2018-12-06

Day 4
It was a frosty morning in this morning, so here's a lovely arctic fox from John Ross's 'Narrative of the 2nd Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage', 1835.

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2018-12-04


I wanted to find a plant to coincide with so here's the closest thing I could find - a

A very striking Sphenopteris artemisiifolia from 'Illustrations of fossil plants' (1877)

https://t.co/TmeXpd8oih

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2018-11-23

This week's is a delightful Himalayan Dolomiaea from 'Illustrations of the ... of the Himalayan Mountains' by Royle (1839)

Most of the plates in this work are after Vishnupersaud, the greatest Indian artist of his time

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2018-11-16

Can someone please write a story about these two unlikely pals?

Some for y'all courtesy of the aptly named volume 'Dogs' from The Naturalist's Library series

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2018-11-14

Gorgeous of a Roseate Spoonbill from George Shaw’s ‘The Naturalist’s Miscellany’, with by FP. Nodder

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2018-11-13

Some terrifying from the supplement to Schreber's 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' (1840)

Thankfully not human, these are skulls!



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2018-10-31

...and for the it has to be John Gould's sumptuous 'A monograph of the with by H.C. Richter

Also available on via https://t.co/Ri931uUC4P

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2018-10-03

Happy and hummingbird day!

My go-to for of from the library is 'The Naturalist's Miscallany'

Our copies are on for all to enjoy! https://t.co/elpNZ4oD7g

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2018-10-03

Indigenous people of the used this plant (which Europeans named "cinchona") medicinally. As a result of imperialism, cinchona spread globally -- the only effective malaria treatment until the 1930s. Today we call its active ingredient quinine.

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2018-09-26

Science Literacy Week + = 🎉🌈📚Tomorrow's workshop will explore medieval manuscripts, early printed books, original artworks & other highlights from our history of science collections https://t.co/5QfO8Vsp2e

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2018-09-19