Scientific Illustration

wallacegardens:

Paphiopedilum lawrenceanum (1882) The Orchid Album, illustration by John Nugent Fitch.

heaveninawildflower:

Four watercolour drawings of plants from Malacca commissioned by William Farquhar. Clockwise from top left, they are:

• “Nauclea Gambir (Hunter) now Uncaria Gambir; Gambeer or Gambare; Pokok Gambir [in Jawi]”. Gambier (Uncaria gambir, known in Malay as gambir). Its leaves are added to betel leaves (Piper betle) and slices of areca nut (Areca catechu) and chewed as a mild stimulant.
• “Lava Etam (Malay); Black Pepper; Piper Nigrum; Lada Hitam [in Jawi]”. Black pepper (Piper nigrum; Malay lada hitam).
• “Doorean; Durio stercorae; D. zibethina Linn; Durian [in Jawi]”. Durian (Durio zibethinus).
• “Pendarahan; Pendarahan [in Jawi]”. Wild nutmeg (Gymnacranthera farquhariana or Myristica farquhariana; Malay pendarahan). This is the only plant that is currently named after William Farquhar.
• between 1819 and 1823.
• National Museum of Singapore. Wikimedia

joewardillustration:

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stilllifequickheart:

Karl Axel Pehrson

Catharina Nymphaeoidea

20th century

joewardillustration:

Just some little beetles…. could lead to a hhhuuuggggeee piece with hundreds of insects?? 

biomedicalephemera:

Bucco tamatia - The Spotted Puffbird

One of the less-studied birds of the tropics. It was considered threatened for a time, but is now considered a species of least concern.

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: Part XXI. 1853.

worldofrarebookephemera:

Fruity plates going up on our etsy store

biomedicalephemera:

Life Cycle of Liver Fluke

The life cycle of the fluke that causes schistosomiasis has a very similar life cycle, except where the liver fluke enters and matures within the sheep liver, the schistosome enters the human skin, and matures within the mesenteric veins, though they can easily move between tissues and locations.

Animal Parasites and Human Disease. Asa C. Chandler, 1918.

biomedicalephemera:

New Land Shells from Taviuni [Taveuni] - Click through to greatly enlarge these teeny guys!

These little snails are from the third-largest Figian island, Tavenui. Tavenui is one of the best-preserved islands of the Fiji archipelago, as the population is almost entirely indigenous populations (living a simple sustenance lifestyle), and foreign predators like the mongoose have never gotten a foothold. Luckily, as the business of ecotourism continues to expand, the incentive to keep the island (and its native flora & fauna) intact. The rich volcanic soil that comprises the island would otherwise likely be exploited for palm oil and coconut production.

I’ll take awesome teeny snails, unique fruit bats, orange doves, and Kula parrots over a few tons of palm oil any day.

From Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1876.

biomedicalephemera:

Cuvier Day

Trogon and toucan.

Cuvier’s interest in natural history was first piqued by Gesner’s natural history tomes and plates that he found at his Gymnase as a child.