Planet Open Knowledge Flatfish Camouflage Experiments (1911)
Adam Green - July 11, 2018 in camouflage, fish, flatfish, flounder, pattern
Photographs from a series of experiments in which various types of flounder through their paces as regards camouflage ability.
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Flatfish Camouflage Experiments (1911)
Adam Green - July 11, 2018 in camouflage, fish, flatfish, flounder, pattern
Photographs from a series of experiments in which various types of flounder through their paces as regards camouflage ability.
Bringing the Ocean Home
Adam Green - June 21, 2018 in anemones, aquariums, Art & Illustrations, Books, fish, inventor of the aquarium, philip henry gosse, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine
Bernd Brunner on the English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse and how his 1854 book The Aquarium, complete with spectacular illustrations and a dizzy dose of religious zeal, sparked a craze for the "ocean garden" that gripped Victorian Britain.
Drawings of Tetradons and Diodons (ca. 1838–42)
Adam Green - March 6, 2018 in balloonfish, Diodons, fish, ocean, pacific, pufferfish, Tetradons, United States Exploring Expedition
Wonderful drawings of balloonfishes and pufferfishes made during, or shortly after, the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.
Drawings of Tetradons and Diodons (ca. 1838–42)
Adam Green - March 6, 2018 in balloonfish, Diodons, fish, ocean, pacific, pufferfish, Tetradons, United States Exploring Expedition
Wonderful drawings of balloonfishes and pufferfishes made during, or shortly after, the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.
Drawings of Tetradons and Diodons (ca. 1838–42)
Adam Green - March 6, 2018 in balloonfish, Diodons, fish, ocean, pacific, pufferfish, Tetradons, United States Exploring Expedition
Wonderful drawings of balloonfishes and pufferfishes made during, or shortly after, the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.
Drawings of Tetradons and Diodons (ca. 1838–42)
Adam Green - March 6, 2018 in balloonfish, Diodons, fish, ocean, pacific, pufferfish, Tetradons, United States Exploring Expedition
Wonderful drawings of balloonfishes and pufferfishes made during, or shortly after, the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.
Images from the Earliest Colour Publication on Fish (1754)
Adam Green - April 4, 2017 in east indies, first colour book on fish, fish, marine life, ocean life, pescatology
Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes can lay claim to be being the earliest known publication in colour on fish, though many specimens seem to border on fantasy.
Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)
Adam Green - April 4, 2017 in east indies, fish, marine life, natural history, nature, ocean life, pescatology
Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes can lay claim to be being the earliest known publication in colour on fish, though many specimens seem to border on fantasy.
Dr Mitchill and the Mathematical Tetrodon
Adam Green - September 16, 2015 in early Republic, fish, Ichthyology, new york, Science & Medicine
One of the early Republic's great polymaths, New Yorker Samuel L. Mitchill was a man with a finger in many a pie, including medicine, science, natural history, and politics. Dr Kevin Dann argues that Mitchill's peculiar brand of curiosity can best be seen in his study of fish and the attention he gives one seemingly unassuming specimen.