Four frogs sitting on the ground under leaves. One has eggs all over its rear.
It's #WorldFrogDay! DYK Males of the midwife frog species Alytes obstetricans carry fertilized eggs on their backs until they're ready to hatch. #SciArt by P.J. Smit, Boulenger's "The Tailless Batrachians of Europe" 1897 in #BHLib via #SmithsonianLibraries: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36107857
#SciArt: Paper Nautilus, from "Zoography; or, The beauties of nature displayed" (1807), contributed to #BHLib by the Field Museum: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54312693
#ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌏 🌱
A bright orange pangolin (a small mammal completely covered in armoured plates) climbing down a branch.
A yellowed page from an historic book
In recognition of #WorldPangolinDay, we share this beautiful Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla), now critically endangered. #SciArt by Frederick Polydore Nodder from George Shaw's The Naturalist's Miscellany V. 1 (1789-1813) in #BHLib via #MuseumsVictoria www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40297096
A book on a cushion held open with a weighted rope, with handwriting on the right hand page.
Happy bday Charles Darwin (born #OTD 1809)! 🎉 Check out Charles Darwin’s Library on #BHLib, a virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Darwin, drawing on original copies & surrogates, providing full transcriptions of his annotations & marks: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/d...
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/BHLat10
Natural History Museum, London
Natural History Museum, London
In 2016, @biodivlibrary.bsky.social celebrated 10 years in London with meetings at the Natural History Museum and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew … looking forward to hearing what happens at the 20th anniversary gathering in 2026 (4/4) #BHLib www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/B...
![NHM Librarian’s office where Tom Garnett (Smithsonian), Graham Higley (NHM), Bryan Heidorn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) sketched out governance of what was to become @biodivlibrary.bsky.social (4 Feb 2005) [photo from 2014] … #BHLib](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ynxuhhzpk5xvuy4tiucnki5/bafkreifu3ozaizzssksluq3ffhs46qgra4wvru5uzh76g47gpliagbv7sq)
NHM Librarian’s office where Tom Garnett (Smithsonian), Graham Higley (NHM), Bryan Heidorn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) sketched out governance of what was to become @biodivlibrary.bsky.social (4 Feb 2005) [photo from 2014] … #BHLib
Key values of collaboration, openness, transparency, globalization, & a user/data centric focus were all 1st elaborated at the conference (which brought together key figures in the origin of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social & a working meeting at the NHM Librarian’s office the day before … (2/4) #BHLib
An historic illustration of a Quagga (an extinct species of Zebra, with a black and white striped head, neck and back, brown rump, and cream legs and underbelly), standing on bare ground.
🦓 The Quagga is an extinct subspecies of Plains Zebra. 🎨 #SciArt by A. Gabler, from Johann Wolf's "Abbildungen und Beschreibungen merkwürdiger naturgeschichtlicher Gegenstände" (1818-22), in #BHLib via #FieldMuseum. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48425779 #InternationalZebraDay #WorldZebraDay 🧪
An historic illustration of a daisy plant (green leaves, flowers with yellow centers and white petals.
Deborah Griscom Passmore (1840-1911) was an artist for the USDA Division of Pomology for 19 yrs. This oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) is from her album of American wildflowers, in #BHLib via usdagov.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58157899 #DaisyDay #HerNaturalHistory #SciArt 🌼 🧪 🎨
An historic book open to a double page spread: the title pages. There are illustrations of poisonous mushrooms along the bottom of both pages.
An historic book open to a double page spread featuring illustrations of poisonous plants.
An historic book open to a double page spread featuring illustrations of poisonous plants.
It's a poisonous #FloraFriday + #FungiFriday! ☠️ 🍄🌼
A table of vegetable poisons" (1843) describes the characteristics, locales, and effects of poisonous plants & mushrooms found throughout the world. Find it in #BHLib via @@mobotgarden.bsky.social : www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45450678 🧪
An illustration of a Tamandua (a black and white anteater) walking along a branch.
It's #WorldTamanduaDay! Tamandua is a genus of anteaters. This northern tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) is from "Manual para el rastreo de mamíferos silvestres de México" (2012) by J.M.A. Sánchez, in #BHLib via #BHLMexico & #Conabio www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49770915 #SciArt #OpenAccess 🧪 🌎 📖
An historic illustration of a pitcher plant above a marshy scene.
Carnivorous plants obtain nutrients from animals or protozoans, which they trap & digest. This #SciArt of "insektenfressnde pflanzen" (insectivorous plants) is from "Meyers Konversations-Lexikon" (1890). Contributed to #BHLib by @uoftlibraries.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55161008 🧪
A page full of illustrations of many different frog species.
Mary Cynthia Dickerson was the 1st curator of herpetology at @amnh.org. She authored "The Frog Book" (1906), describing North American toads & frogs. Explore it in #BHLib thanks to the @uoftlibraries.bsky.social Robarts Library: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31830673 #HerNaturalHistory #HERpers 🐸
Historic illustrations of jellyfish
Historic illustrations of jellyfish
Alfred Mayor's "Medusae of the world" (1910) attempted to describe all known forms from all parts of the world. The #SciArt is based on drawings, from life, by William K. Brooks and Louis Murbach. View it in #BHLib: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... #WorldJellyfishDay #ILoveBHL
An owl in a tree on a black background + green round earrings featuring a red back spider.
All ready for my 2am meeting with the BHL global consortium on this #Halloween Eve. We were instructed to dress for the holiday, so I’ll be sporting my glow-in-the-dark owl t-shirt & red-back spider earrings. #BHLib
To celebrate #WorldMushroomDay, here's a Lingzhi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum). #SciArt by E Ovsiannikov from Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde des Russischen Reiches (1857). Digitised for #BHLib by Harvard University Botany Libraries @harvardlibrary.bsky.social www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43058694 🍄 🧪
Historic illustrations of algae
Historic illustrations of algae
Historic illustrations of algae
Historic illustrations of algae
It's #WorldAlgaeDay! Japanese algologist Kintaro Okamura (1867-1935) provided taxonomies & descriptions in English & Japanese for his monumental work "Nihon sorui zufu" / "Icones of Japanese Algae" (1907-1942). Find it in #BHLib via
#MBLWHOILibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
We're going a bit batty in celebration of #BatAppreciationMonth. Archibald Thorburn's "British Mammals" (1920-1921) contains some of our favorite bat #SciArt in #BHLib. Check it out thanks to #FieldMuseum
➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48418555 #BatMonth 🦇 🧪
To all our UK colleagues, happy #NationalBadgerDay! These badgers are based on a painting by Henry Hamilton Johnston & published in his "British Mammals" (1903), freely available in #BHLib via @amnh.org: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9409345 #WorldBadgerDay #MammalMonday #LoveBadgers #ILoveBHL
On Sept 1, Australia celebrates the 1st day of spring with #NationalWattleDay! This beautiful wattle, Acacia prominens (Golden Rain Wattle), is from Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1836) contributed to #BHLib by @mobotgarden.bsky.social biodiversitylibrary.org/page/466265 #FlowersInTheLibrary #ILoveBHL
"Des champignons comestibles, suspects et vénéneux" (1827-28) is a rare mycological work with #SciArt depicting 200 mushroom species arranged according to edible, suspect, and poisonous species. Explore it in #BHLib via Lloyd Library and Museum: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58215228 #FungiFriday
The Purple-winged Roller (Coracias temminckii) is a native of Indonesia. #SciArt by John Gerrard Keulemans for the "Monograph of the Coraciidae" (1893) by Henry Eeles Dresser. Contributed to #BHLib by Cornell University. #WearItPurple 💜
➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55956554 #ILoveBHL
In recognition of #WorldLakeDay, here is some beautiful #SciArt from "The fresh-water fishes of China" (1943), digitised for #BHLib by @amnh.org. 🐠 🐡 🐟 #ILoveBHL 🧪
➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12398729
Devra Kleiman coordinated #GoldenLionTamarin Conservation for ~30 years. #BecauseOfHerStory, the wild GLT population increased from a few hundred to around 1,600. Explore her field books in #BHLib: bit.ly/4m09k4L 🎨: "Wild Beasts of the World" www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19058592 #GLTDay2025
A curled black snake with yellow and red stripes all along its belly (most likely so curled because it was drawn from a specimen pulled out of a jar)
This #SciArt by James Sowerby of the red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) accompanied the 1st description of the species by George Shaw in "Zoology of New Holland" (1794), in #BHLib via #MuseumsVictoria & @bhl-au.bsky.social
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40653631 #WorldSnakeDay 🐍
To celebrate #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, here's a guinea pig from 1760 (with a dodo for scale). #SciArt by George Edwards for "Gleanings of #NaturalHistory", contributed to #BHLib by the National Library Board, Singapore. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50289605 #ILoveBHL
To celebrate #WorldPorcupineDay, here's a Crested Porcupine (Hystrix cristata) & three porcupettes! By Joseph Bassett Holder, Our Living World, Vol. 1 (1885). Contributed to #BHLib by University of Illinois Library (@uillinoislibrary.bsky.social) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33500475
An Orca (a large black and white dolphin), mouth open, coming up out of the grey/green ocean. There is another fin of an Orca in the background.
June is #OrcaAwarenessMonth. The orca is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family. #SciArt by Archibald Thorburn for "British Mammals" V.2 (1921), digitized in #BHLib by #FieldMuseum www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48418795
An historic illustration of a large white parrot with a yellow crest, on a wooden perch in front of a red curtain.
An historic illustration of a white parrot with a pink head and a red/yellow/white crest, perched on a tree branch.
An historic illustration of two colourful parrots on a branch.
🦜 Happy #WorldParrotDay! 🦜 Only four copies of J.J. Halley's "A Monograph of the Psittacidae or Parrot Family of Australia" (1871) are known to exist today. Explore one of those copies for free in #BHLib thanks to #MuseumsVictoria. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56681272 #RareBooks
An historic illustration of a large white bird with long black legs, a red head and a yellow bill (a Whooping Crane).
Meet North America's tallest #Bird, as illustrated by #Audubon: The Whooping Crane. From: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories (1842), digitised for #BHLib by Smithsonian Libraries & Archives. #WhoopingCraneDay
An historic illustration of a brown otter on a jutting out rock about a stream. Yellow flowers in the foreground.
🦦 Happy #WorldOtterDay! The common otter (Lutra lutra) is the most widely distributed member of the otter subfamily (Lutrinae). #SciArt by Archibald Thorburn for his "British Mammals", Vol. 1 (1920). In #BHLib thanks to the #FieldMuseum ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48418607
