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Books on “Language of Flowers” presented the world of botany through dictionaries of flowers, floral poetry & prose. It was a popular genre for female authors. @chicagobotanic highlights this Victorian fad for #HerNaturalHistory: https://t.co/ISPjPK3OML
#HerNaturalHistory: Miss E. J. Beck illustrated the anatomy of scorpions for Sir Edwin Ray Lankester's "On the muscular and endoskeletal systems of Limulus and Scorpio" (c1883). In #BHLib via @Mann_Library & @Cornell_Library ➡️ https://t.co/2UE4e6WbX4 #WomensHistoryMonth 🦂
#HerNaturalHistory: #Gladiolus #SciArt by Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret for 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘶𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘦 (1899). Contributed in #BHLib by @HarvardLibrary Botany Library ➡️ https://t.co/cieE0cTNWz #5womenartists 🌼🌺🌸