EditorialGoliathus, Print, The Goliath beetles (named after the biblical giant Goliath) are any of the five species in the genus Goliathus. Goliath beetles are among the largest insects on Earth, if measured in terms of size, bulk and weight. They are members o...
EditorialGoliathus, Print, The Goliath beetles (named after the biblical giant Goliath) are any of the five species in the genus Goliathus. Goliath beetles are among the largest insects on Earth, if measured in terms of size, bulk and weight. They are members o...
EditorialPtilogonys cinereus, Print, The grey silky-flycatcher or grey silky (Ptiliogonys cinereus), is a species of bird in the Ptiliogonatidae family. It is usually found only in Guatemala and Mexico, but vagrants have turned up in the southern United States....
EditorialGolden lion tamarin, Leontopithecus rosalia (Silky tamarin, Midas rosalia). Endangered. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Monkeys, Edinburgh, 1844.
EditorialPink spider flower or silky grevillea, Grevillea sericea. Australia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialSilky anteater or pygmy anteater (Azara's cagouare), Cyclopes didactylus, and black tamandua, Tamandua tetradactyla. From Felix de Azara's Voyages dans l'Amerique Meridionale, 1801. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Gio...
EditorialWoolly net-bush or silky net-bush, Calothamnus villosus (Calothamnus villosa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after George Loddiges from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1817.
EditorialBird, possibly a species of Flycatcher. Not yet identified, perhaps a type of long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher, ‘Ptilogonys’ var. Wellesley Albums. 1798 - 1805. Watercolour. Source: NHD 29/35a.
EditorialBird, possibly a species of Flycatcher. Not yet identified, perhaps a type of long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher, ‘Ptilogonys’ var. Wellesley Albums. 1798 - 1805. Watercolour. Source: NHD 29/35a.
EditorialGolden lion tamarin, Leontopithecus rosalia (Silky tamarin, Midas rosalia). Endangered. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Monkeys, Edinburgh, 1844.
EditorialPink spider flower or silky grevillea, Grevillea sericea. Australia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialSilky anteater or pygmy anteater (Azara's cagouare), Cyclopes didactylus, and black tamandua, Tamandua tetradactyla. From Felix de Azara's Voyages dans l'Amerique Meridionale, 1801. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Gio...
EditorialWoolly net-bush or silky net-bush, Calothamnus villosus (Calothamnus villosa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after George Loddiges from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1817.
EditorialGolden lion tamarin, Leontopithecus rosalia, endangered. Marikina or silky monkey. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Pass after an illustration by Johann Jakob Ihle from Ebenezer Sibly's Universal System of Natural History, London, 1795.
EditorialLesser bush sweet pea or silky podalyria, Podalyria sericea. Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims' Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1817.
EditorialSilky triggerplant (Hairy stylewort, Stylidium pilosum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1842.
EditorialTagasaste or tree lucerne, Silky cytisus, Cytisus proliferus. Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims' Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816.
EditorialSilky anteater or pygmy anteater, Cyclopes didactylus, and giant anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla (vulnerable). Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Natu...
EditorialSilky anteater, Cyclopes didactylus. Illustration copied from George Edwards. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine," Harrison, London, 1799.
EditorialSilky patersonia with dark purple flower. A native of Australia. Named for Colonel Paterson, the assistant governor of New South Wales... Patersonia sericea.