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‘Mosses and wandering lichens’, as Ruskin puts it in ‘The Poetry of Architecture’ (1837), ‘though beautiful, constitute a kind of beauty from which the ideas of age and decay are inseparable’.
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
‘Mosses and wandering lichens’, as Ruskin puts it in ‘The Poetry of Architecture’ (1837), ‘though beautiful, constitute a kind of beauty from which the ideas of age and decay are inseparable’.
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
These illustrations aren't just "pretty," they are works of science as well as art. Thanks for making such contributions to both spheres more available.
More articles extracted from @biodivlibrary.bsky.social , this time "Flowering Plants of South Africa" biostor.org/issn/0015-4504 Tricky to work with these articles as no page numbers and page and plate ordering needs to be flipped. Nightmare, but at least we get to see the "pretty".
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
These illustrations aren't just "pretty," they are works of science as well as art. Thanks for making such contributions to both spheres more available.
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An engraved plate from my 1827 copy of Elements of Botany by Benjamin Smith Barton, one of the first professors of natural history in the U.S. & who built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the country. This was considered the first U.S. botany textbook. 🌱 🐡 📚💙
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
An engraved plate from my 1827 copy of Elements of Botany by Benjamin Smith Barton, one of the first professors of natural history in the U.S. & who built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the country. This was considered the first U.S. botany textbook. 🌱 🐡 📚💙
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An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
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November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
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Herbaria and Art: Hilma af Klint
Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley), Geum rivale (Water Avens), Hilma af Klint’s Polygala vulgaris (Common Milkwort). Sheet 11 from the portfolio Nature Studies. June 10–11, 1919 (Museum…
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November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Just read this and it's a great discussion of collaborations outside of the botanical community.
#Transdisciplinary plant sciences: A review
#ThomasReview by David Ludwig
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#PlantScience
🧵 1/3
#ThomasReview by David Ludwig
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#PlantScience
🧵 1/3
November 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Just read this and it's a great discussion of collaborations outside of the botanical community.
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Join us in The Hague on 3 December for my book presentation! 🌷🌻🌵
Look forward to sharing some findings, an exciting panel on practical knowledge with amazing colleagues, and a pop-up show on reconstructions/creative works from the project.
Register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...
See you there! 🌺
Look forward to sharing some findings, an exciting panel on practical knowledge with amazing colleagues, and a pop-up show on reconstructions/creative works from the project.
Register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...
See you there! 🌺
November 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Join us in The Hague on 3 December for my book presentation! 🌷🌻🌵
Look forward to sharing some findings, an exciting panel on practical knowledge with amazing colleagues, and a pop-up show on reconstructions/creative works from the project.
Register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...
See you there! 🌺
Look forward to sharing some findings, an exciting panel on practical knowledge with amazing colleagues, and a pop-up show on reconstructions/creative works from the project.
Register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...
See you there! 🌺
Post from Herbarium World on the art of Sam van Aken herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...
Art and Herbaria: Sam van Aken
Sam van Aken’s specimen of Prunus persica “Peregrine” from The Open Orchid Project Sam van Aken seems to be as obsessed with fruit trees as I am with herbaria. For years he has been growing t…
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November 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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This is a wonderful post on old specimens and new.
Restoring Palo Santo, the Holy Wood of the Tropical Dry Forest: The research of Elizabeth Collins, George Mason University #SmellingTheBouquet 👃💐
Learn more about Betsy's research: experiment.com/u/4WrVNg
Learn more about Betsy's research: experiment.com/u/4WrVNg
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This is a wonderful post on old specimens and new.
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Some mushrooms we identified at the Society of Mycology of Neuchâtel and around (www.smne.ch).
❓how to memorise them all?
🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!
🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
❓how to memorise them all?
🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!
🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Some mushrooms we identified at the Society of Mycology of Neuchâtel and around (www.smne.ch).
❓how to memorise them all?
🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!
🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
❓how to memorise them all?
🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!
🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
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Visited Port Sunlight yesterday - the original source of much of my academic funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk It was so impressive to see the workers' houses, hear about all the good stuff the Levers did and to visit the Lady Lever Art Gallery - on the day that Musk got $1 trillion....
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Visited Port Sunlight yesterday - the original source of much of my academic funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk It was so impressive to see the workers' houses, hear about all the good stuff the Levers did and to visit the Lady Lever Art Gallery - on the day that Musk got $1 trillion....
Post from Herbarium World on the plant-related art of James Prosek: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/a...
Art and Herbaria: James Prosek
James Prosek’s watercolor Liatris (Gayfeather), Blackjack Oak, Post Oak, Maximilian Sunflower after a rain, between Forestburg and Greenwood, Texas, November One of my favorite topics in the herbar…
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November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The natural history of the book. Scarlet pimpernel in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several other pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The natural history of the book. Scarlet pimpernel in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several other pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social
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#Incense #SmellingTheBouquet Courbaril, Black copal, Copal negro (Hymenaea courbaril)
Commonly found in the Caribbean, Central & South America, courbaril is an evergreen hardwood tree with many uses. The wood is used for furniture and flooring and the fruit pulp is used for food and drink.
Commonly found in the Caribbean, Central & South America, courbaril is an evergreen hardwood tree with many uses. The wood is used for furniture and flooring and the fruit pulp is used for food and drink.
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
#Incense #SmellingTheBouquet Courbaril, Black copal, Copal negro (Hymenaea courbaril)
Commonly found in the Caribbean, Central & South America, courbaril is an evergreen hardwood tree with many uses. The wood is used for furniture and flooring and the fruit pulp is used for food and drink.
Commonly found in the Caribbean, Central & South America, courbaril is an evergreen hardwood tree with many uses. The wood is used for furniture and flooring and the fruit pulp is used for food and drink.
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Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
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Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
What a wonderful collaboration between art and science @uarkherbarium.bsky.social.
Thursday’s dinner will showcase UArk Herbarium/Prairie Pedagogy Pop-up Exhibition. It will highlight the UArk Herbarium support for educational and artistic work happening in the Oak Knoll Prairie. Artworks by Caite Ramos, Ellie Johnson, Mikki Young, Peter Brown, Mia Dixon, Kaylee Hutto and more!
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
What a wonderful collaboration between art and science @uarkherbarium.bsky.social.
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Labels for medicine bottles? Found in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several pressed botanical specimens).
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Labels for medicine bottles? Found in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several pressed botanical specimens).
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.
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One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library doesn't just provide access to historic literature. There are publications on BHL from 1469 to 2025. The Canadian Field-Naturalist is one of many in-copyright publications we've made freely accessible online (with permission from the rights holders of course). 🧪 ©️ 📖
We can only show this change because of a short (basically 1 page of text) 1983 paper in the Canadian Field-Naturalist. As far as I can tell, this paper is only available online via @biodivlibrary.bsky.social www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2800903...
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Biodiversity Heritage Library doesn't just provide access to historic literature. There are publications on BHL from 1469 to 2025. The Canadian Field-Naturalist is one of many in-copyright publications we've made freely accessible online (with permission from the rights holders of course). 🧪 ©️ 📖
Post from Herbarium World on the Fernery at Benmore Botanic Garden: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...
Different Approaches: Ferneries
The rebuilt Fernery at Benmore Botanic Garden, Scotland, part of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Sixteen years ago, I visited the Tropical Ravine at the Botanic Gardens in Belfast. I had …
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October 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Coming up Tues Oct 28, online -
Botanical Exchanges: The Art of Emily Cole and Isabel Charlotte “Downie” Church
A virtual conversation with Amanda Malmstrom and Allegra Davis
Register at olana.org/program-even...
#hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
Botanical Exchanges: The Art of Emily Cole and Isabel Charlotte “Downie” Church
A virtual conversation with Amanda Malmstrom and Allegra Davis
Register at olana.org/program-even...
#hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Coming up Tues Oct 28, online -
Botanical Exchanges: The Art of Emily Cole and Isabel Charlotte “Downie” Church
A virtual conversation with Amanda Malmstrom and Allegra Davis
Register at olana.org/program-even...
#hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
Botanical Exchanges: The Art of Emily Cole and Isabel Charlotte “Downie” Church
A virtual conversation with Amanda Malmstrom and Allegra Davis
Register at olana.org/program-even...
#hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory
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At the turn of the 20th century, researchers shared specimens, books & discoveries through letters that crossed borders.
Our exhibition with @tettris.eu explores the the scientific connection between Austria and Italy through the correspondence of botanist Eduard Hackel 🌿 bit.ly/4nSpwFJ
Our exhibition with @tettris.eu explores the the scientific connection between Austria and Italy through the correspondence of botanist Eduard Hackel 🌿 bit.ly/4nSpwFJ
Italian botanists and their correspondence with Eduard Hackel
Europeana
https://bit.ly/4nSpwFJ"
October 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
At the turn of the 20th century, researchers shared specimens, books & discoveries through letters that crossed borders.
Our exhibition with @tettris.eu explores the the scientific connection between Austria and Italy through the correspondence of botanist Eduard Hackel 🌿 bit.ly/4nSpwFJ
Our exhibition with @tettris.eu explores the the scientific connection between Austria and Italy through the correspondence of botanist Eduard Hackel 🌿 bit.ly/4nSpwFJ
Post from Herbarium World on the wood collection at the University of California Berkeley thanksto information from Shirley Watts and Mitchell Maher: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/d... #wood
Different Approaches: Wood
Stack of wood specimens at the Forest Products Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. Photo courtesy of Mitchell Maher This series of posts is about topics in the plant world that, to me, …
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October 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Post from Herbarium World on the wood collection at the University of California Berkeley thanksto information from Shirley Watts and Mitchell Maher: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/d... #wood