Also Sarah Peters Kernan referenced Vallemont's work in an article on the Linda Hall Library's horticultural holdings, originally published in the library's Hedgehog newsletter:

www.lindahall.org/about/news/g...

#histSTM #botany #gardening #horticulture

Want to learn more about the Abbé de Vallemont? As is so often the case, Bill Ashworth examined his work in a #ScientistOfTheDay blog post for the Linda Hall Library:

www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

#histsci #philsci #histSTM 🗃️📜

And it could be again!

“It’s a race…It’s a chase…So hurry up and feed your face!”

https://youtu.be/N1sD75s3A4c?si=Gr_UBMEdfgeo4lDx

#RobotChicken

Back then, people really got a positive charge out of going to the theater!

Trying to remember if we had Alice-related music on display @ransomcenter.bsky.social during our #WordsAndWonder exhibition...

(We definitely had at least one screenplay...)

www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/...

#AliceInWonderland #ThroughTheLookingGlass
#filmsky #booksky 🗃️📜

...and thank you for entrusting your papers to @ransomcenter.bsky.social so that future researchers can learn more about your creative process.

research.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/fin...

#TomStoppard #booksky #theatre 📜🗃️

Maybe so...but surely there are enough fans of the Divine Comedy to make up for the difference!

In any case, I didn't splurge for myself. In an ideal world, the whole set would stay together and be preserved in library or museum.

That's a strange way to spell "strawberry rhubarb"...