Scientific Illustration

stilllifequickheart:

Marianne North

Coming Out of a Cape Beauty

1882

factstofigures:

Caption: Menestho diaphana from Phascolion strombi. (a) Shell; (b) two individuals in feeding position on host; (c) egg mass of M. diaphana from siphonal canal of Nassarius sp. shell inhabited by P. strombi. Eggs are embedded in colourless, sticky mucus with adhering mud particles; (d) eggs at higher magnification.

Artist: Hylleberg Kristensen, 1970

Kinne, O. (Ed.). (1980). Diseases of Marine Animals. Chicester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Eggs by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Naumann,.
Gera-Untermhaus,F.E. Köhler,1897-1905 [v.1, 1905].
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35158987

Eggs by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Naumann,.
Gera-Untermhaus,F.E. Köhler,1897-1905 [v.1, 1905].
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35158989

pollyfern:

Largest piece of work I have ever done. Completed this a few months ago. My father made the lovely huge frame holding the a4 #illustrations #illustration #ink #painting #art #drawing #duck #fish #frog #birds #eggs #snail #naturalhistory #wood (Taken with Instagram)

atelierentomologica:

Vintage educational chart, from Katrien Van der Schueren’s The Art of Instruction  

whitehotel:

Johann Andreas Naumann, 1-4 Otis tarda, Grosstrappe; 5-7 Grus grus, Gemeiner Kranich (1905)

The birds of California by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Los Angeles ;South Moulton Company,1923..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39753957

slowdazzle:

America’s Other Audubon by Genevieve Jones. Via Brainpickings.org

biomedicalephemera:

Nest and eggs of the wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)

The wood thrush is a member of the same family as robins and other thrushes, but has a uniquely delicate and beautiful song.

Henry David Thoreau once said,

“Whenever a man hears it he is young, and Nature is in her spring; wherever he hears it, it is a new world and a free country, and the gates of Heaven are not shut against him.”

Like many thrushes, the wood thrush is serially monogamous, staying with a single partner during each breeding season, and raising chicks together. The full three-part song of the male is rarely heard before he establishes a new territory at the beginning of each year, when the northern migration is complete.

Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio, With Text. Howard Jones, illustrated by Mrs. N. E. Jones, 1886.