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Born 1776 – Charles Hamilton Smith. He assembled a huge collection of watercolour drawings to illustrate his books & talks. ZSL's former Secretary, Professor McNeill Alexander, presented ZSL with the Coulton portfolio of 55 watercolours, all except one are probably by Smith.

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2022-12-26

Edith Durham born in 1863, anthropologist, artist, traveller. She illustrated 'Amphibia and reptiles' by Hans Gadow, 1901; wrote & illustrated 'Notes on the Mode of Feeding of the Egg‐eating Snake...' a paper in ZSL's Proceedings (): https://t.co/8is7JDl5Ke

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2022-12-08

'Monochrome' is the theme for this of colour tweet. Perfect for reminding everyone about the opening of Monkey Valley , a new home for our black & white colobus. in ZSL's 1885 Proceedings, now . by Joseph Smit.

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2022-08-21

Frederick William Frohawk was born in 1861. He supplied for ZSL's Proceedings (now ), 23 plates between 1886 & 1900. These two examples both accompany 1886 papers by G.A. Boulenger, a &

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2022-07-16

John Gerrard Keulemans was born in 1842. He provided many illustrations for ZSL's Proceedings and Transactions, now continued at . These are a few examples of his original art works in our

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2022-06-08

Spent part of today looking for a particular in this book written by ZSL's former Secretary, Philip Lutley Sclater. Published in 1862 with beautiful by John Jennens. Jennens also provided illustrations for ZSL's Proceedings & Transactions, now

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2022-02-08

Born 1776 – Charles Hamilton Smith. He assembled a huge collection of watercolour drawings to illustrate his books & talks. ZSL's former Secretary, Professor McNeill Alexander presented ZSL with the Coulton portfolio of 55 watercolours, all except one are probably by Smith.

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2021-12-26

190 years ago in 1829, ornithologist Philip Lutley Sclater who was Secretary of from 1859-1902. These illustrations are from 'Exotic Ornithology' by Sclater & Osbert Salvin, published 1866-69. We hold much of his correspondence in ZSL's

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2019-11-05

Sarah, ZSL's Archivist, did an online chat session with some KS2 students about Joan Procter, ZSL's former Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians. Find out more about Joan Procter in Sarah's blog https://t.co/FtZy4lwnv6

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2019-03-05

You may have read the sad news that 8 bird species have been confirmed as becoming this decade, so we wanted to share this stunning image by Joseph Smit of one of these species. Below you can see the Spix macaw, which also featured in ZSL's Proceedings.

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2018-09-08

it's not too late to get involved in 's project to transform the iconic Snowdon Aviary into the perfect new home for our colobus monkeys? https://t.co/E5OPgyjEUw This incredible image is from ZSL's 1885 Proceedings, and is by J. Smit.

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2018-03-10

Happy Ann (ZSL's Librarian) came across this image by Charles Hamilton Smith a few weeks ago and we've been saving it especially to share with you today!

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2017-11-29

that ZSL's first Librarian, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, was born in 1847? Sharpe was also a keen ornithologist, so to celebrate his birthday we wanted to share with you a plate from one of his books!

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2017-11-23

There's still time to see our display about ZSL's first female Curator of Herpetlogy, Joan Procter - here's a few of the pieces on show.

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2017-08-16

Writing up a dps on Storm, ZSL's black and white ruffed lemur this morning!

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2017-08-02

Beyond excited about 's with creating prints inspired by ZSL's conservation work was a dream brief!!

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2017-07-31

Inspired by recent work with foxes (https://t.co/LDYuMzU5YT) we recalled this rather fierce British fox by Thomas Pennant (1766)

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2017-01-19

Large watercolour painting of Storm, ZSL's black and white ruffed lemur

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2015-07-16