Happy #publishersbindingThursday, #feathursday edition! We love the gold stamping almost as much as we love the marbled cloth! Swoon!
C.W. Webber. Wild Scenes and Song-Birds. New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1854.
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Once upon a time, there was a dodo and a guinea pig....
SciArt from Gleanings of Natural History (1760) by George Edwards. View more in the Biodiversity Heritage Libraryย with thanks to the National Library Board, Singaporeย for digitizing.
1) Barringtonia racemosa
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Datura stramonium
3) Greyia sutherlandii
4) Millettia grandis
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Schrebera alata
6)
Adenium obesum
7) Aloe arborescens (watercolour, 1888).
Botanical plates by Katharine Saunders (1824-1901) taken from ‘Flower Paintings of Katharine Saunders.’
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Gone, but not forgotten! The dodo went extinct in the 1600s, when people and other predators invaded its island home. Mauritius, east of Madagascar, is the only place dodos ever lived.🦤
While the birds died out before photography, their skeletons offer clues to what they were like. For example, this bird couldn’t fly—it had small wings for a bird of its size, its sternum has no keel (the support birds need for flight muscles), and it had thick leg bones made for walking. See this specimen up close in the Hall of Biodiversity!
Photo: D. Finnin/© AMNH
#dodo #musuems #amnh #NaturalHistory #extinction #biodiversity #birds #AnimalFacts (at American Museum of Natural History)
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