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Artist Margaret Meen's botanicals graced the walls of royal palaces & scientific academies. While largely unknown today, her legacy is an important part of British botanical history. explore her life & work: https://t.co/vgueu0msWT

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Mary Anne Stebbing illustrated many scientific publications on subjects ranging from botany to crustaceans. Sadly, her work was uncredited. Today, is digitizing some of her for a project on female artists ➡️ https://t.co/g6SaEmpbjz

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Elizabeth Gould introduced Australia's birds to the world (John couldn't draw). These, like so many of her exquisite works, accompany the descriptions of species new to science. https://t.co/plsIUZaKvc Via

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Mary Anne Stebbing. Sarah Anne Drake. What do these women have in common? They are both botanical artists and two of those whose is being digitized by in collaboration with . tells us more ➡️ https://t.co/g6SaEmpbjz

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Black-headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus) is native to Australia & is not venomous. by Harriet Scott Morgan for Snakes of Australia (1869) by Gerard Krefft. In via of : https://t.co/3JefUQG80b

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Harriett Scott & Helena Forde, best known for their exquisite illustrations of butterflies, also expertly depicted Australia's mammals: "The Mammals of Australia" (1871) via
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Tulip (Tulipa agenensis) by Sarah Anne Drake for Edwards's botanical register v. 25 (1839), which was edited by botanist John Lindley. Drake illustrated many of Lindley's publications. In via : https://t.co/okdpJMd1Q3

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A closer look at the frontispiece in the 1730 Ed of Maria Sibylla Merian's work on the insects of Suriname: just to the left of the cherub's bum, I've only just noticed a miniature version of the book plus the pineapple from one of the plates growing in a pot!

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English artist Winifred Austen was a member of the Society of Women Artists, London. She provided for The Wild Beasts of the World (1909), such this Philippine Flying Lemur (Cynocephalus volans) ➡️ https://t.co/wwERTEu8nr

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"The Cactaceae" (1919-1923) was produced as the 1st complete investigation on the Cactaceae family. It features stunning by artist Mary Emily Eaton, whose artworks were reproduced via chromolithography ➡️ https://t.co/MXGAp4WGKr

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After seeing Audubon’s book ‘Birds of America‘ at the 1876 World’s Fair, Genevieve Jones wanted to create a similar book about bird nests & eggs. The result, pub in 1886 and focused on Ohio birds, was beautiful. https://t.co/kkigedKrAp

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Hawaiian flowers for 🌺 Isabella McHutcheson Sinclair's "Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands" (1885) is the most important record of Hawaiian flora in the 19th century. Read more about it via ➡️ https://t.co/HiGqIdkMuG

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Our 1st tweet about women scientists of the past for - Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe we think was the 1st woman to 1st author a paper in read her paper here https://t.co/IUMLXEVmsP & our blog https://t.co/guoZ4Wf8Zc

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"Australian Lepidoptera and Their Transformations" (1890-98) depicts the life cycles of Australian moths & butterflies. It features based on paintings by Harriet & Helena Scott. Explore it in via ➡️ https://t.co/UMiqZKoWNS 🦋

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"The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala" ([1837]-1843) is the largest botanical book ever produced with lithographic plates. It was beautifully illustrated chiefly by Sarah Anne Drake & Augusta Withers. In via ➡️ https://t.co/nP8O90Nqmf

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Sun Cactus (𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘴) for and by Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret for 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘶𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘦 (1899). Contributed in by Botany Library ➡️ https://t.co/n0JrXR5z0i

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Anna Maria Hussey & her sister, Frances Reed, illustrated and described species they collected within "Illustrations of British Mycology" (1847-55). Explore their work in via ➡️ https://t.co/OcMUH84Xv9 🍄🍄

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Otra iniciativa de es esta enorme galería en [https://t.co/MQbVTzR1Zk] que recopila muchísimos de los trabajos de estas ilustradoras de gran valor tanto artístico como científico

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Sarah Stone (1760-1844) produced all 65 of the beautiful plates in "Journal of a voyage to New South Wales" (John White, 1790), many depicting new species. https://t.co/LSX91UEqev via &

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Elizabeth Blackwell's 𝘈 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘭 (1737-39) was a groundbreaking work on medicinal plants. Elizabeth drew, engraved, and colored all 500 plates herself. She undertook the project to help pay her husband’s debts. https://t.co/sBqgehEeKM

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