📅Happy #May Day2024 !🌷

🦋🪻The colourful #Calendar page for #May from Robert Furber's (1674-1756) 'The Twelve Months of Flowers' welcomes us into Spring. 🌼🌸🪷

Look at Furber's 'Twelve Months of Flowers', and other #DigitisedCollections here:
nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44NH… #Botany

#OTD 250 years ago John Reeves (1774-1856), the English naturalist and Inspector of Teas for the East India Company, was born.

Today, we start a new collaboration with UCL Information Studies for 5 Digital Humanities students to catalogue and digitise our Reeves botanical artwork collection.

Some of our favourites from the Library collection 📚 #WorldCarnivorousPlantDay

Visit our website to discover what else we hold, and why not get in touch to arrange to visit our Reading room.
nhm.ac.uk/library

Nature’s pitfall trap, the #PitcherPlant . Such intriguing plants. Frederick William Burbidge (1847-1905) captured their architectural beauty during his expedition to Borneo in 1877-8. #WorldCarnivorousPlantDay #DigitisedCollections
nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44NH…

Two tusks or not, these mythic mammals can truly be stranger than fiction!

Have you ever seen a whale of any kind up close?

Today is #InternationalDanceDay 🩰
Have you got your dance card ready?

Ours is from the HMS #Challenger expedition (1872-76).
Let's face it, those officers probably needed a good leg stretch after all that time on the ship.
Twenty dances should do it!⚓
#Ephemera

Doing some tidying at my Mum’s place and came across a stash of old random photos. They included two of what might have been my first trip to Natural History Museum in 1978 (judging from the age of my sister plus questionable clothing choices) in the old dino gallery with Dippy

Some good news for NHM Library and Archives. We have an exciting year ahead, with lots of big projects, and this will really accelerate our work.

Exciting news! 🌟 1000 sites are on the #EducationNaturePark map! Each glowing dot represents a school, nursery, or college championing wildlife, connecting to nature and learning new skills. Want to join them? Get involved 👇 educationnaturepark.org.uk

Jellyfish, Sea Cucumber and other marine life. And maybe sinister alien….

Illustration from from 'Historiæ naturalis de quadrupetibus', 1657 (engraving) - Johannes Jonstonus

Copy from NHM Library and Archives & featured in my & RagsandRuby new book #Metamorphosis

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It's our birthday! 🎉

#OnThisDay 143 years ago, the Museum opened its doors to the public for the very first time. This photo was taken the same year the Museum opened in 1881!

Let us know how many you can find in this one!

#OnThisDay 143 years ago, the Natural History Museum opened to the public for the first time.

This historical photograph was taken one year later in 1882, before Hintze Hall (then known as Central Hall) was filled with exhibits.

A selection of this week’s additions to our physical book and journal collections.📚

To search our #Library and #Archive collections, and to find information about booking a Reading room appointment, go to nhm.ac.uk/library
#Wildlife #Nature #Science #Botany #Gardens

Here’s the link for all of the illustrated posters that Hawkins created which have all been catalogued and #digitised and made freely available by NHM Library and Archives nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/coll… #PublicDomain #CrystalPalaceDinos Crystal Palace Dinos

Loving this #booktitle and the “Doomed” title of one of Arthur Peck’s (1870-1940) incredible #photographs for #FungiFriday . “Cramp balls” as charms & the inimitable “dog stink horn” too - what’s not to love about the #fabulous world of #fungi ? Available to peruse NHM Library and Archives

NHM Library and Archives preserves the largest collection of Stone’s incredible artworks and has #digitised her bird nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/deli… and animal drawings nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44NH… #specialcollections #womenartists #PublicDomain

Join us for a hybrid #BHLDay2024 on 16 May as part of our 2024 Annual Meeting! Themed 'Year of the Cicada', we'll have talks celebrating notable achievements in both the biodiversity community and the #BHLib community in the past 17 years.

it’s #InternationalDayOfHumanSpaceFlight

But what was the first animal in Space?

It was a fly…Drosophila melanogaster was the first species to travel into Space & they’ve been going back & forth every since

Read more about the Drosophila melanogastronaughts in #Metamorphosis