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Posts from the Zoological Society of London's Library & Archive Team #ZSLLibrary
ZSL London Zoo
Joined September 2014
#DYK we are open to ALL but we ask visitors to make an appointment before visiting? .We are open Tues to Thurs 10.30am-5pm. Browse our books, read a magazine, use our space. Please note we will be closed on Wednesday 16th July for a private event. 📚🦡🦩🦤🐊🐟🐌🐟🦦🦋
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Reposting this reminder - ZSL Library and Archives are closed tomorrow Wed 16 July.
A reminder - we are closed on Wednesday 16th July for a private event. We are usually open to all Tuesday to Thursday, 10.30am to 5pm but please make an appointment before visiting 📚🦤🐈🐟🐢🦒🐛🦀🦚
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We are celebrating #SharkAwarenessDay by sharing this beautiful engraving of an Angel shark in Francis Willughby and John Ray's book on fish, "De historia piscium. ", published in 1686. Find out more about ZSL's involvement in Angel shark conservation:
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Please note that ZSL Library and #Archives will be closed on Wednesday 16th July.
❗️Please note that our car parking facilities will not be available all day on 16 July until 6am on 17 July. Please plan your journey accordingly - we apologise for any inconvenience: ❗️.
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#OTD in 1842 WC Cotton in New Zealand wrote to Richard Owen with evidence showing Owen was correct about the giant moa, a large, extinct, flightless bird. Owen had been ridiculed for his idea about this bird. Part of the letter is in our Proceedings:
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The July theme of #ExploreYourArchive is #EYANature. Here we have a letter from John Edward Gray, keeper of zoology at the British Museum to Brian Houghton Hodgson regarding undescribed images for the Annals of #NaturalHistory
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A reminder - we are closed on Wednesday 16th July for a private event. We are usually open to all Tuesday to Thursday, 10.30am to 5pm but please make an appointment before visiting 📚🦤🐈🐟🐢🦒🐛🦀🦚
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Today's #onlineartexchange celebrates summer. Looking close-up at this scraperboard #artwork you can a stoats in winter and summer coats. The artist is David Ellis Pratt. The other carnivores are pine marten; male and female weasels ; polecat ; otter ; wild cat.
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#happyanniversary to Ann our Librarian, today she celebrates 33 years @ZSLLibrary and #Archives. "I love my job and we have such wonderful collections. Much has changed but information about animals and their conservation is the core part of my role". 📚🦥🐌🦎🪼🐡🦤🦩
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And another from 1888 by Charles Ferguson Sharpe. You can explore our paintings further in our online library catalogue: Click on the 'Search artworks' tab on the lefthand sidebar.
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Charles Ferguson Sharpe #paintings are only occasionally requested by our visitors and unfortunately very few are photographed. This is just one example we have out in the Reading Room today, it dates from 1888.
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Happy #worldchocolateday, we are featuring the cocoa or chocolate tree in Mark Catesby's "The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects and plants. ", 1731-43. More
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We are celebrating 450 years since the printing of our one of oldest books in English "The booke of faulconrie or hauking, for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen. ", by George Turbervile and published in 1875 when Elizabeth I was on the throne.
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Happy #4thofJuly .Plates from "Illustrations of the American ornithology of Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucian Bonaparte,. numerous recently discovered species. by Thomas Brown", 1831-5. You can get copies of these lovely prints from ZSL Online shop:
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Happy #WorldMeerkatDay .Illustration from "Histoire naturelle des mammifères, avec des figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'après des animaux vivans. " by Étienne Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier, Vol 2 Plate 200, publ. 1824.
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A few of our new books on one of our comfy sofas. Thanks to all the donors📚 .#DYK images on our cushions are based on works in our #specialcollections?.Sea anemones in Haeckel's "Art forms in nature", 1899-1904.Leopard cat in the John Reeves collection c.1829-31
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Today is #PolychaeteDay🪱.This stunning illustration is from "Leodicidae of the West Indian Region" by Aaron Louis Treadwell, publ. 1921 by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. #sciart #WorldPolychaeteDay
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Frédéric Cuvier was born #OTD in 1773. A #ZSLFellow and Head Keeper at the Zoo, Jardins des Plantes, Paris. He described the red panda assigning the scientific name, Ailurus fulgens. Illustration from "Histoire naturelle des mammifères" Vol. 2, by Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier.
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Today is #WorldSandDuneDay, we are highlighting one of Britain's rarest reptiles, the sand lizard. This print is in MC Cooke's "Our reptiles", publ. 1865. Our copy is very special, it was a birthday gift to Joan Procter who was to become our Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians.
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The landscape with animals is an oil painting by Roelandt Savery (1576-1639). Did you spot the now extinct dodo in the bottom lefthand corner? 🦤It was painted from life and is even more unusual as the artist depicted a rear view and you can clearly see the bird's tail feathers🪶
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