Actively interested in deep sea (meso/bathypelagic) ecosystems. Self confessed bookworm, student of the natural world and lover of all things 'renaissance'
Staffordshire UK
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
Grade Members in official robes at 2026 Encaenia of the British Naturalists' Association at @NHM_London on Sat 12th Sept. Congratulations to new Hon Fellows, Fellows, Registered Members & Associates, and award winners. President Roger Tabor & Chairman Steve Rutherford at front.
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
Saturday 12th Sept 2026 this year's British Naturalists' Association Encaenia &Conference will be taking place at @NHM_London. Its fully booked & will be a great event. Pict of the gowned Grade Members, Fellows & Hon Fellows at 2025 event (pict: Endymion Beer)
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
On World Ocean Day we celebrate all the new discoveries made by scientists in the Ocean Census Science Network. More than 2000 since the programme began in 2023! 🪸 Meet the new species on Ocean Census NOVA, and support our species discovery mission. oceancensus.org/nova/
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
Sir David is 100 on Friday & still as amazing! The British Naturalists' Association is unbelievably proud that Sir David is an Hon Fellow, in picture he is giving a lecture in Hon Fellow's robes at the 2007 BNA Encaenia.
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
Happy Birthday 80 today, BNA Vice President Joanna Lumley, doesn't seem possible! Joanna with BNA President Roger Tabor being filmed in 2009 for her 2 part mini-series "Joanna Lumley: Catwoman" ITV
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
On #InternationalWomensDay the British Naturalists’ Association is proud to highlight 2 of its amazing naturalists Steph Holt FBNA & Dr Erica McAlister HonFBNA who both do outstanding work at @NHM_London
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
Spiny-headed Harvestman (Megabunus diadema) photographed in #Derbyshire - prickly little character! @Buzz_dont_tweet https://t.co/QoGLNyyf1t
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3. Finally in this copy of 1767 Systema Naturae: the previous owner’s handwritten world! ✍️🔬
Elegant marginal notes in Latin & French turn this book into a living research diary from the Enlightenment.
Pure time-travel magic after 250+ years! 🕰️
Utterly captivated. 😍
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2. Diving deeper into my 1767 Systema Naturae treasure: the previous 18th owner has included dozens of exquisite hand-drawn oak-gall ink illustrations of many types of marine invertebrates all lovingly placed right beside Linnaeus’s Latin text.
#rarebook #carllinneaus #gallink
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1. Christmas treasure gifted: a rare 1767 copy of ‘Systema Naturae’ by Linnaeus 🌿
This extraordinary copy has real 250+ year-old butterflies pasted onto pages, hand-drawn ink illustrations of bees/jellyfish/flies, & handwritten Latin/French notes/dissections.
🙏 Steph & Will
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
Tom's spider collection now housed in Taylor collection
🕷️A huge British spider collection revealed! 🏴
Latest from the Tom Thomas donation to the collections. 2009 specimens, 176 species, 463 lots & growing. Decades of pitfall magic in gardens & meadows.
Wolf spiders, orb weavers, crab & money spiders … a true arachnid goldmine!
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
A diver saw something incredibly special at the ocean's surface: this juvenile King-of-the-salmon (Trachipterus altivelis), a kind of ribbonfish that spends most of its time in the deep.
📷 tedjudah on iNaturalist
📍 United States
🔗: inaturalist.org/observations…
#ObservationOfTheDay
ALT A silvery, long fish with a translucent dorsal fin and tail fin floats vertically at the surface of the ocean.
ALT A silvery, long fish with a translucent dorsal fin and tail fin floats vertically at the surface of the ocean.
ALT A silvery, long fish with a translucent dorsal fin and tail fin floats vertically at the surface of the ocean.
ALT A silvery, long fish with a translucent dorsal fin and tail fin floats vertically at the surface of the ocean.
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🕷️A huge British spider collection revealed! 🏴
Latest from the Tom Thomas donation to the collections. 2009 specimens, 176 species, 463 lots & growing. Decades of pitfall magic in gardens & meadows.
Wolf spiders, orb weavers, crab & money spiders … a true arachnid goldmine!
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all British Naturalists' Association members & to ALL naturalists everywhere!
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
British Naturalists’ Association Christmas zoom talk by Endymion Beer MBNA is this evening, joining from 7pm, talk starts at 7.30pm. Hope to see you there.
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Just added the 1816–21 Turpin Monocotyledones atlas, 82 hand-coloured plates in extraordinary condition. One was drawn by Turpin’s son who died 6 days after turning 18.
The caption reads: “Turpin fils pinxt. Mort le 21 Août 1821, âgé de 18 ans et 6 jours.”
Fewer than 200 survive
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Andrew Taylor FLS FBNA retweeted
The British Naturalists’ Association depends entirely on its members as volunteers, thank you all! #InternationalVolunteerDay bna-naturalists.org
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Missing only: Mammals Atlas, Fish Atlas, and the two Reptiles vols.
Four books away from owning one of the two or three finest complete sets left in private hands.
Some collections you inherit. This one I’m still trying to finish. 🔥📚
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2/3 Each plate was hand painted in Paris using gum-arabic highlights, colours that still glow like wet paint.
Insects alone: 340+ plates. Molluscs & Zoophytes: 200+. Birds: 182.
Sets this complete, this uniform, and this pristine don’t exist outside national libraries anymore.
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