Andrea points out that even drawings intended to be scientific records have limitations. The Museum Library holds 16 sketchbooks by Olivia Tonge, who worked in India between 1908 and 1913. Her ...

The account of their journey is relieved in various parts of the work with historical sketches of the early history of America,— Pulszky siding with the now-favored opinion that America had been ...

Relatively unknown during their lifetimes, both brothers are recognised today as pioneers of scientific natural history illustration, particularly in their use of microscopes to draw specimens in ...