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. highlights this Victorian fad for https://t.co/ISPjPK3OML

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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 via & ➡️ https://t.co/2UE4e6WbX4 🦂

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by Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret for 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘶𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘦 (1899). Contributed in by Botany Library ➡️ https://t.co/cieE0cTNWz 🌼🌺🌸

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