Illustration from Polito, S. (1803). Description and Natural History of S. Polito’s Collection of Living Beasts and Birds (p. 26). #HistSTM #HistSci #BioDivLibrary @biodivlibrary.bsky.social
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A yellow and white flower on red sand
A gecko on a rock, with its tongue out
3 people in canoes on a river
a seal, photographed upside-down underwater
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