Turning the Book Wheel
“In terms of speed and the breadth of material now accessible to anyone in the world, this is really revolutionary,” says audio curator Greg Budney, describing a major milestone just achieved by the Macaulay Library archive at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. All archived analog recordings in the…
Way to go Macaulay Library!!
from Cole’s Garden Annual. 1894 Grade, Farm and Flower Seeds 1894
Robert John Thornton New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus …(1807) not the birds and the bees…the birds and the roses. June is national rose month. (via Smithsonian Institution Libraries : Roses SIL7-290-03)
Nest of a field sparrow (spizella pusilla) from the Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio.
The illustration was made from a nest taken June 3rd, 1879, in a wild rose-bush. It fairly represents the usual size, materials, and position. The foundation consists of weed-stalks and a few straws; the superstructure of finer weed-stems, fibres, and split grasses; the lining of horse-hair and roller-grass. The eggs figured show the usual sizes, shades of ground-color, and markings.
This remarkable and now rare volume was produced largely by women and authored by Genevieve Jones, an amateur naturalist and illustrator.
