Picked up "Crabs: A Global Natural History" a while back and it's really good, especially when you're referencing photos of crabs and going "What the hell am I looking at here?" 🦀

🍤 The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage;. London, H.G. Bohn, 1839.. [Source]

🌊 Illustrations of the zoology of H.M. Indian Marine Surveying steamer Investigator Calcutta: Printed and sold by the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1892-1909. [Source]

🦪 A history of British Mollusca and their shells London: John Van Voorst, 1853. [Source]

🌲 Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands / issued by Lord Lilford.. London: R. H. Porter, 1885-1897.. [Source]

🦐 New articles added to JCB! Volume 46, Issue 3 of the Journal of Crustacean Biology now features new research notes, reviews, and articles on crustacean physiology, phylogeny, and taxonomy. 📖 academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/46/3 📸 Hans Hillewaert (CC) #Crustaceans #MarineBiology #FreshwaterEcology

Sharks from 'A History of the Fishes of the British Islands' by Jonathan Couch. London : Groombridge and Sons, 1867-1868. #JonathanCouch #NaturalHistory #FishArt #Sharks #SharkWeek

New in Marine & Coastal #Fisheries (open access): American #Lobster and Jonah #Crab Populations Inside and Outside the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument USA, by Stephen A. Arnott, Michael P. Long, Aubrey Ellertson, N. David Bethoney - doi.org/10.1002/mcf2... 🦑 #MPA

The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle ... London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1838- (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14062422) #nature #illustration #art

A monograph of the British marine annelids. London, The Ray society, 1873/1900-1922/23. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37824145) #nature #illustration #art

To the sea, everyone, to the sea! As an ode to holidays, sandy beaches and sunsets, images from John Stackhouse’s Nereis Britannica (1795), a magnificent illustrated compendium of algae native to the British seashore. You can read more and find other works by Stackhouse, using our library catalogue.

Some beautiful blooms to brighten your Friday! 💐 📷 Illustration of spotted palmate, pyramidal & lizard orchids & a gymnadenia from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691] #FlowersOnFriday #FridayFlowers #RareBooks

😸 The Coleoptera of the British islands: . London: L. Reeve & co., 1887-1913.. [Source]

🦀 Descripcion de diferentes piezas de historia natural las mas del ramo maritimo: . En La Havana: En la Imprenta de la Capitania General, 1787.. [Source]

#NewSpecies! New crab from a cave in #china just pinched us: Tiwaripotamon liuzhouense Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/D90C9562-... Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Zootaxa #TiwaripotamonLiuzhouense #FAIRdata #taxonomy #nature #wildlife #animals #fauna #arthropods #crustacea #crab #caves

The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle ... London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1838- (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14062370) #nature #illustration #art

🪱 A monograph of the British marine annelids London, The Ray society, 1873/1900-1922/23. [Source]

🦐 New open-access guide available! Marine Crustacea Isopoda: Guide to Families and Genera of the World provides keys and diagnoses for 86 families, 24 subfamilies & 1,134 genera, supporting marine isopod identification. 📖 doi.org/10.24199/j.m... 📸 Hans Hillewaert (CC) #crustacea

The natural history of British fishes: London: Printed for the author, and for F. and C. Rivington, 1802-08. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5897344) #nature #illustration #art

The ferns of Great Britain, and their allies the club-mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails London: Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: [1855] (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38460756) #nature #illustration #art

The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836 London: Published by Smith, Elder and Co., 65 Cornhill, 1839-1843. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48899206) #nature #illustration #art

🦞 Illustrations of the zoology of H.M. Indian Marine Surveying steamer Investigator Calcutta: Printed and sold by the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1892-1909. [Source]

🦟 British dragonflies (Odonata) London, L.U. Gill, 1900. [Source]

🦌 Fauna japonica, sive, Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis, superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823-1830 Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Auctorem, 1833-1850. [Source]

🌾 A new British flora;. London, Gresham Pub. Co., 1919.. [Source]

🦏 The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle .... London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1838-. [Source]

🪲 Insecta Britanica: Diptera / by Francis Walker. London: Reeve and Benham, 1851-56. [Source]

Just arrived from @summerfieldbooks.com: "Fungi of Temperate Europe: Keys to the Basidiomycotes." Looks good but we now need some rain, so I can try it out. (I may have a long wait...) #MycoBookClub #Fungi #FungiFriends

Received copies of my book today! Very grateful to the Publishers and Editors for all their efforts towards bringing it to life. I’m very pleased with the end result. #Ichneumonidae #Pimplini #Pimplinae

Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse: Berlin ;Bei Gottlieb August Lange, 1782-1804. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41876362) #nature #illustration #art