Scientific Illustration

mucholderthen:

At the online Library of the Japanese Legislature:
images of antique natural history illustrations

NATURAL HISTORY IN JAPAN:  Sloth
Edo (江戸時代) a/k/a Tokugawa period (徳川時代) 1603 - 1868 

source: Japanese National Diet Library’s images of natural history
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Pteropus Whitei by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London..
[London] :Published for the Zoological Society of London by Academic Press.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12865499

thebrazenhead:

Bat skull and sand dollar - July 2012

ballpoint pen, fountain pen

ornithoscelidaphiliac:

watermelons and pumpkins

Epomophorus francqueti now called Epomops franqueti - Franquet’s Epauletted Fruit Bat by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London..
London :Academic Press, [etc.],1833-1965..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37028057

Notopteris macdonaldi - the Long-tailed Fruit Bat by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London..
London :Academic Press, [etc.],1833-1965..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37028041

biomedicalephemera:

Fruit bat of the subfamily Pteropodinae

The megabats of the Pteropodinae include the largest bats in the world: the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox (Acerodon jubatus) and the Large Flying Fox (Pteropus vampyrus), also known as the Malaysian Flying Fox.

The teeth of the family Pteropus, and especially of the subfamily Pteropodinae, are specially designed to rip open and grind up fruits, both juicy and fleshy. The large canines allow them to slash into thick skins, and the dextrous tongue and molars that are good for chewing (but not continued grinding) make an ideal dentition for most South Pacific fruits. Some fruit bats consume vegetation, pollen, or nectar, but Pteropodinae consumes almost exclusively fruit.

Fruit bats lack a tail and the ability to echolocate, like all Old-World bats. They have very good eyesight, and are thought to have split off from microbats (the New-World bats, including all of the carnivorous bats) during the Eocene epoch, around 45 million years ago.

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur. J.C.D. Schreber, 1774.

cani-s:

indian fruit bat

preropus giganteus

-illustration by elizabeth thompson

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The giant golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus) from the original description:

Zoologischer Atlas enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten während des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt auf der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Kriegesschlupp Predpriaetië in den Jahren 182 (1831) by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz 

mudwerks:

(via BibliOdyssey: Beechey’s Voyage)

The zoology of Captain Beechey’s voyage / compiled from the collections and notes made by Captain Beechey^, the officers and naturalist of the expedition, during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring’s Straits performed in His Majesty’s ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey … in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28, by J. Richardson … [et al.] ; illustrated with upwards of fifty finely coloured plates by Sowerby’

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