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⁦Two posts for the last day of the fabulous ⁩‘s special session for ⁦⁩ The first shows three plates of c. 1755 featuring botanical specimens culled from London‘s Chelsea Physic Garden, expanded under Hans Sloane in 1713

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2020-05-07

John Reeves was born 1774. He was the East India Company’s Inspector of Teas in China for 19 years (1812-1831). He collected plant & animal specimens & comissioned watercolours of many species by Chinese artists. The Reeves pheasant and Reeves muntjac are named after him.

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2020-05-01

Seaweed collecting was a popular Victorian pastime, with enthusiasts including Queen Victoria and George Eliot. ‘Ocean flowers and their teachings’ (1846) contains pressed seaweed specimens and was perfect for budding phycologists!

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2020-04-23

Louise von Panhuys (1763-1844): Germanic botanical artist and landscape painter. She went to Surinam and created volumes of botanical specimens; mainly, she painted watercolours of plant specimens, with attention to scientific accuracy.

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2020-04-22

On this day in 1794, German botanist and explorer Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was born. Martius focused most of his work on Brazil - collecting thousands of specimens from the region. https://t.co/7kluizARa8

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2020-04-18

●otice of the start of the sale of artworks.●
Five specimens are now on sale at TAGBOAT!
They look like insect specimens in a specimen box.
This is a great opportunity to add it to your collection!

https://t.co/T9rtR5dchQ

The photo is "Specimen No. 25".

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2020-04-16

Watercolour, from my book. I adored visiting London's for all the specimens, as it gives great fodder for practise.

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2020-04-16

Kulu-Ya-Ku is relatively low in the food chain and has to raid nests of their egg to feed. Although Kulu-Ya-Ku primarily eats eggs, it's thought that it may also feed on smaller animals, such as insects, but there haven't been any reports of any specimens eating anything else.

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2020-04-13

from the lab | generative (bio)sketches of speculative aquatic specimens generated from trained w/

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2020-04-12

Tourmaline is a chemically complex group of silicate minerals. Mineral collectors appreciate the size & beauty of tourmaline crystals, making them some of the most hunted of the mineral world. The NYSM Mineral Collection has many important tourmaline specimens.

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2020-04-07

Made a lil size diagram for the 4 dinos (All specimens here used for scaling were found in Britain, and the largest specimens of each respective genus)

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2020-04-05

For this weeks here is a lovely sketch that was probably used for teaching purposes. It's based on specimens collected by Lyell & figured by Bunbury. Miller illustrated the published text....but these are very much 🔍🎨🌿

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2020-04-04

We've also put all the specimens that inspired the
collection into dataset
https://t.co/75DsS7uISm
Click 'go to resource' to view each insect.

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2020-04-03

Sea Life Specimens by Vlad Stankovic. Art via https://t.co/oK22m0GqzC.

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2020-04-02

HIS LIMB SPECIMENS........ EXQUISITE. EFFERVESCENT

his daughter would actually make the lace for the sleeves, and she later became a painter of floral and vanitas scenes

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2020-03-26

Elinor Frances Vallentin collected hundreds of plant specimens from the Falkland Islands. She illustrated many of these in her 1921 work on Falkland Islands botany, which is freely available online in via ➡️ https://t.co/N1E0DPjDtj

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2020-03-25

Web Spinner was a spider BOW made in the Arklay Lab's early stages of t-Virus research, since gene editing was easier on creatures with ancient body structures. The t-Virus α strain was discovered in these specimens & they were disposed of, except some kept for data use.

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2020-03-22

The museum needs more specimens and is on task ! The dapper fella is suiting up for adventure against all manner of weather and local conditions to get those hard to access species prowling around

by !

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2020-03-23

Mycology is the study of fungi—mushrooms!

Violetta White Delafield was an early 20th century American botanist and mycologist who produced hundreds of beautiful drawings & watercolours of mushroom specimens.

A collection of her illustrations: https://t.co/2MViRZpOwo 🍄🎨

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2020-03-20