Scientific Illustration

atelierentomologica:

Fly, LEDERMÜLLER, Martin Frobenius (1719-1769)

Nervous system of a blue bottle fly (Calliphora vomitoria)

From: The anatomy & physiology of the blow-fly (Musca vomitoria Linn,) a monograph by Benjamin Thompson Lowne, M.R.C.S. Eng. Illustrated with ten plates (1870)

Details of the thoracic skeleton of the fly Calliphora vicina

The anatomy, physiology, morphology and development of the blow- fly (Calliphora erythrocephala) A study in the comparative anatomy and morphology of insects; with plates and illustrations executed directly from the drawings of the author by B. Thompson Lowne (1890)

‘A curve showing the loci of a point at the tip of the wing [of Calliphora vicina] during flight, seen from below the horizontal plane passing through the wing-roots’

The anatomy, physiology, morphology and development of the blow- fly (Calliphora erythrocephala) A study in the comparative anatomy and morphology of insects; with plates and illustrations executed directly from the drawings of the author by B. Thompson Lowne (1890)

The proboscis of the imago of the fly Calliphora vicina

From: The anatomy, physiology, morphology and development of the blow- fly (Calliphora erythrocephala) 

A study in the comparative anatomy and morphology of insects; with plates and illustrations executed directly from the drawings of the author by B. Thompson Lowne (1890)

The anatomy & physiology of the blow-fly (Musca vomitoria Linn,) a monograph by Benjamin Thompson Lowne, M.R.C.S. Eng. Illustrated with ten plates (1870)

compendium-of-beasts:

[Flies & bees.] (1833-1841)

via NYPL

Tsaltsalya, El Adda. by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.

Author: Bruce, James, 1730-1794.
Title: Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia.
Imprint: Edinburgh : Printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson …, 1790.
Physical Description: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 220 x 280 mm on leaf 23 x 30 cm.
Page: Interleaved p. 188-189.
Call Number: DT377 .B887 1790 V.5 Rare Book

Note: Title from illustration.

modrawswithink:

Bounty bird

micamica14:

Fly Anatomy