Browne and Ehret

Patrick Browne - The civil and natural history of Jamaica in three parts [2.ª ed.], 1789. Illustrated by Georg Dionysius Ehret. Link…

I wonder how Georg felt about that extra 'e' being added to his name?

Quinine

John Eliot Howard. Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia of Pavon, 1862. Link…

Curtis's Botanical Magazine

The Botanical Magazine Volumes 1-20 (1790-1804). Link…

Flowering Plants and Ferns of New South Wales

Plates from the University of Sydney. Link…

Medical Botany

Illustrations credited to J. H. Colen but some of them were drawn and coloured by Carson. Link…

John L. Ridgway

A zoologist in the 1867-69 United States Geological Fortieth Parallel Survey, Ridgway produced this scrapbook containing drawings and proof prints including these Singer Sewing Machine trade cards. Link…

Flower City

The nurseries of Rochester. Illustrations from the Ellwanger and Barry Collection, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester. Link…

The LE herbarium

The Herbarium of Vascular Plants of the Komarov Botanical Institute (LE) is one of the largest collection in the world and main herbarium in Russia. Some of the specimens have (I think) been scanned holographically. They are not intended as such but they are art in nature. This specimen was collected from Kazakhstan in 1930. The images are quite large - I have reduced this one by 50% and dropped the quality to 80% of the original. Link…

Mutinus caninus (Dog stinkhorn)

I have quite a few of these in my garden. Tom Volk has a great fungi site. Check out his fungi of the month. Link…

Biophorus paradisiacus

Scans from Fauna Japonica - Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (1842). Link…