by Audrey Benedict | Apr 1, 2023 | ePostCards
ePostcard #167: A Naturalist’s Bookshelf (Eye of the Whale) A NATURALIST’S BOOKSHELF I subscribe to the stewardship vision best expressed by the great Senegalese environmentalist Baba Dioum—we are moved to conserve what we understand and love. Every so often, in...
by Audrey Benedict | Oct 2, 2022 | ePostCards
ePostcard #157: A Naturalist’s Bookshelf Archival Photo Credit: Self-Portrait of Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952). Created: circa 1889 date QS:P571,+1889-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 to 1899 (Public Domain (File:ECurtis.jpg). Published in The American Magazine,...
by Audrey Benedict | May 1, 2022 | ePostCards
ePostcard #154: A Naturalist’s Bookshelf Illustration Credit: Courtesy of the Human Origins Program, and adapted from the United States Geological Survey and Visible Earth, NASA. This wonderful ammonite-like representation shows the geological time scale, with the...
by Audrey Benedict | Feb 6, 2022 | ePostCards
ePostcard #149: A Naturalist’s Bookshelf Photo Credits: All photos courtesy of Audrey DeLella Benedict and they were taken on Cloud Ridge Naturalists trips. These are Red-Legged Cormorants at their nest on a cliff near Puerto San Julian in Argentine Patagonia....
by Audrey Benedict | Oct 5, 2021 | ePostCards
ePostcard #139: A Naturalist’s Bookshelf Photo Credit: Courtesy of photographer Guido Mocafico and the Natural History Museum of Ireland. This Blaschka masterpiece in glass is of a type of sea slug called the spotted sacoglossan (Caliphylla mediterranea), A...
