Turning the Book Wheel
I’d like to think that Tian Tian, the male panda at the National Zoo, handed out cigars to all the other bears to celebrate the birth of his and Mei Xiang’s baby late last night.
Frederick Stuart Church letter to Mike Gavin, 1905 or 1906?. Frederick Stuart Church collection, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Reblogging so the Libraries may also tag this image with “butterstick II” <3
Today in 1769 Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, was born. Famous for his work in comparative anatomy and paleontology, Cuvier also established the concept of extinction as a fact.
The above is a a plate from The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. By the late Baron Georges Cuvier … . A later English translation of one of his seminal works, many of which you can check out on the Biodiversity Heritage Library, including this copy of Leçons d’anatomie Comparée which was owned by Charles Darwin.
From Dingee & Conard Co. Our New Guide to Rose Culture (1898) “the only white every-blooming climbing rose” — as white as snow…or polar bears? (via Smithsonian Institution Libraries : Back Cover SIL08-09514-b)
