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Tropidacris latreillei giant grasshopper with red wings in Brazilian rainforest alongside glass-winged mantis and Scaphura katydid — insects documented by Perty Delectus animalium articulatorum 1830

Perty's Delectus: The First Scientific Portrait...

In 1817, Spix and Martius set out on one of the most ambitious scientific expeditions of the 19th century — a three-year journey through Brazil that would transform European understanding...

Perty's Delectus: The First Scientific Portrait...

In 1817, Spix and Martius set out on one of the most ambitious scientific expeditions of the 19th century — a three-year journey through Brazil that would transform European understanding...

Crinum zeylanicum Asphodil Lily in a Georgian drawing room with antique scissors and hand-coloured paper fragments — the flowers that inspired Mary Delany's Flora Delanica 1778

Mary Delany's Flora Delanica: The Paper Mosaics...

In 1772, Mary Delany invented an entirely new art form at the age of 72 — botanical paper mosaics assembled from hundreds of hand-coloured paper fragments with scientific precision. Her...

Mary Delany's Flora Delanica: The Paper Mosaics...

In 1772, Mary Delany invented an entirely new art form at the age of 72 — botanical paper mosaics assembled from hundreds of hand-coloured paper fragments with scientific precision. Her...

Giant Australian cuttlefish Sepia apama underwater temperate waters chromatophores amber iridescent — LeBonJournal

Frederick McCoy's Prodromus of the Zoology of V...

In 1885, the Irish-born naturalist Frederick McCoy began publishing the Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria — the most ambitious scientific survey of Australian fauna of the colonial era. Its...

Frederick McCoy's Prodromus of the Zoology of V...

In 1885, the Irish-born naturalist Frederick McCoy began publishing the Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria — the most ambitious scientific survey of Australian fauna of the colonial era. Its...

Edwardian painter at easel in Cornish daffodil meadow painting a woman picking flowers, Newlyn School plein air tradition

Light and Blossom: Harold Harvey and the Newlyn...

Harold Harvey (1874–1941) spent his entire career painting the light of Cornwall — and in Daffodils and Springtime in the Orchard, he captured the Cornish spring with a luminosity and...

Light and Blossom: Harold Harvey and the Newlyn...

Harold Harvey (1874–1941) spent his entire career painting the light of Cornwall — and in Daffodils and Springtime in the Orchard, he captured the Cornish spring with a luminosity and...

freckled girl in profile blowing dandelion seeds in a field of wildflowers, celebrating Taraxacum officinale

The Most Democratic Flower: Masalin, Hoffstad, ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, two Nordic naturalists gave the dandelion the scientific portrait it deserved — Ebba Masalin’s 1905 Finnish school poster and Olaf Alfred Hoffstad’s 1899...

The Most Democratic Flower: Masalin, Hoffstad, ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, two Nordic naturalists gave the dandelion the scientific portrait it deserved — Ebba Masalin’s 1905 Finnish school poster and Olaf Alfred Hoffstad’s 1899...

antique scientific volumes open to bird egg lithographic plates on university natural sciences library table

The Egg as Evidence: The British Museum’s 1901 ...

The British Museum’s 1901 Catalogue of Birds’ Eggs brought Victorian oology to its highest expression — a systematic, illustrated inventory of the world’s birds’ eggs, documented with scientific precision and...

The Egg as Evidence: The British Museum’s 1901 ...

The British Museum’s 1901 Catalogue of Birds’ Eggs brought Victorian oology to its highest expression — a systematic, illustrated inventory of the world’s birds’ eggs, documented with scientific precision and...