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February 11, 1905, birthday of Czech painter, book illustrator and palaeoartist Zdeněk Michael František Burian, whose work played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstructions and artwork 🦖🎨 paleoporch.com/art-history/zd…

Charles Darwin was born on this day in 1809 Find out how a rabbit once kept by Darwin helps scientists to understand how the mammals became resistant to the deadly disease, myxomatosis. nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

19th century wooden models of geological structures:

📢One week to go!📢 Only seven days until our Early Career Researcher Symposium, showcasing a great range of speakers talking on everything from biblical nature to hidden histories 📖🌱🐇 Grab your FREE ticket, put the kettle on, and settle down 👇 eventbrite.com/e/early-career…

Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay2025 with our recent guest #blog by Ann Datta, #Volunteer Art Cataloguer, about the recently extinct slender-billed curlew illustrated by Elizabeth Gould in 1833-37: zsl.org/news-and-event… #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

✨Conference bursary✨ Are you a current doctoral researcher or post-doctoral researcher within 2 years of completion wanting to attend our Summer Meeting? We can help! We offer bursaries for those who need it, check out the criteria & how to apply 👇 shnh.org.uk/a-sense-of-nat…

English naturalist Mark Catesby was born #OTD 1683. Catesby spent years in N America studying and collecting the wildlife, eventually producing the first major account of nature in the region. This included the first European description of the ivory-billed woodpecker. (📸BHL)

Swiss physician & naturalist Conrad Gessner was born #OTD in 1516. Considered one of the fathers of modern zoology and botany, he is perhaps best known for his work Historia animalium. In it, he attempted to document every known animal at that time, including a few curve balls.

Frederik Ruysch was born #OTD in 1638. Ruysch was primarily an anatomist, experimenting new ways to preserve and embalm specimens which could then be further used for study and teaching. But he also studied animals and was the first to describe the vomeronasal organ in snakes.

📢One week to go! If you want to join us in Glasgow this year for our Summer Meeting on the theme of A Sense of Nature, then we can help! 📚Current doctoral or post-doc within 2 yrs 💵Receive between £300-400 📅Deadline Friday 5 April 2025 More information in the link below 👇

Zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck was born #OTD in 1778. He provided the text for the first volume of "Les pigeons par Madame Knip, née Pauline de Courcelles". - 2e éd. The volume contains these images of male and female passenger pigeons, sadly now extinct. #WomensArt

Pioneering naturalist & scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian was born #OTD in 1647. In 1699 Merian went on the first-ever purely scientific expedition to the Dutch colony of Suriname where she documented intricate plant-insect interactions with beautiful artwork. (📸BHL)

#OTD in 1827 ZSL's Council agreed to admit women as #Fellows on the same basis as men. This decision was recorded in our Council Minutes, now housed in ZSL's #Archives. ZSL was one of the first learned societies to take this #trailblazing step. #WomensHistoryMonth #Zoohistory

In 1694 #OTD the naturalist George Ewards was born. Known by some as the father of British ornithology, Edwards travelled through Europe producing colourful drawings of birds as he went. He published A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, which was referenced by Linnaeus. (📸BHL)

✨Booking is OPEN✨ Join us for our Summer Meeting on the theme A Sense of Nature! Two days of talking about history and nature, including museum tours 🥰 📅19-20 June 🏦Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow Follow the link for speakers and how to book 👇 shnh.org.uk/news/booking-o…