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    May 7

    Now available on : Full text search! Learn more about our new full text search functionality, which also includes faceted browsing and "search inside a book":

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    Death (Acanthophis antarcticus). by Helena Forde for Gerard Krefft, The of (1869). Contributed for digitization by the of the : --

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    Happy ! Georg Ehret's "Plantae et papiliones rariores" (1748-1759), which was published plate-by-plate to subscribers over a ten-year period. It is freely available in thanks to :

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  4. 6 hours ago

    As a monotreme, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) lays eggs instead of giving birth to live young. from Hollick's "The Origin of Life and Process of Reproduction in Plants and Animals" (1902). In from :

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    11 hours ago

    Dorothy Talbot (1871-1916) collected plants with her husband, Percy, in between 1909-16. These are now held in the specimen collections. This watercolour of Uvariastrum zenkeri is one of 600 of her drawings held in our research collections

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    10 hours ago

    With that, we conclude the phenomenal 2018 bloom of our latest corpse flower. Thank you to everyone who followed along with this event, and stay tuned for more information on the dissection of the flower by Garden botanists.

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    9 hours ago

    Sunburst Star Turban (Astraea heliotropium) for ! Thomas Martyn, Le Conchyliologiste Universel, ou, Figures des coquilles jusqu'à présent inconnues recueillies en divers voyages a la mer du sud depuis l'année 1764 (1845). View more in :

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  8. 9 hours ago

    Information about this talented woman in science is now more widely available. Thanks for helping to bring much-deserved recognition to ! We call that a win!

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  9. 9 hours ago

    Thanks to , the entry for Hortense Léontia Deyrolle Migneaux in Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators has been updated with the uncovered information () and a Wikidata entry has been created ().

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  10. 9 hours ago

    Thanks to detective work by & further info from , "Mme. Migneaux" has been identified as artist and colorist Hortense Léontia Deyrolle Migneaux and the wife of entomologist and artist Jules Migneaux (of "J. Migneaux dir.").

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  11. 9 hours ago

    The work features 14 color plates depicting 118 figures drawn from nature by Vinson. The plates are also signed "J. Migneaux dir." and "Mme. Migneaux col.". These are printmaking abbreviations for "directed by" and "hand-colored by".

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  12. 9 hours ago

    French naturalist & physician Jean-Dominique-Philippe-Auguste Vinson was known for his research of Araneidae (orb-weaver ) native to Madagascar, Réunion & Mauritius. His 1863 book on this topic has been digitized in by :

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  13. 11 hours ago

    (Bifrenaria tyrianthina) for ! by Alphonse Goossens for Jean Jules Linden, Lindenia: Iconography of Orchids, Vols. 8-9 (1894-95). Contributed to by the Peter H. Raven Library of the : --

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    Jul 1

    A stunning Peruvian formation - Zinnia peruviana (Peruvian zinnia) Sketch 180 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770)

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  15. 12 hours ago

    Browse our full collection of over 43,000 vintage seed & nursery catalogs in :

    Sharing oodles of florist, seed & nursery catalogs 💐 at Biodiversity Heritage 🌻 via
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    21 hours ago

    The marsupial page in Ernest Protheroe's "The Handy Natural History", published in 1910. via

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    14 hours ago

    Nomenclature des genres néo-calédoniens Arthroclianthus Baill. et Nephrodesmus Schindl. (- ) by Hervé VANDROT

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    Jul 1

    Was curious who "L. Constans" was & so did research. It is Louis Aristide Léon Constans, a French artist, ceramic painter & teacher at University of Tehran. See & (Public Domain image via . )

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    Jul 1

    A NEW Echinoblog about PELAGIC Swimming polychaete worms!

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    Jul 1

    by Ernst Haeckel for his Kunstformen der Natur (1904) for ! View more in with thanks to for digitizing:

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    Jul 1

    This gorgeous painting of the Pitcher Plant is found in Stephen West Williams' "Botanical Description...", compiled in Deerfield, MA, in the early 19th century. From via and .

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