EditorialAnthidium, Print, Anthidium is a genus of bees often called carder or potter bees, who use conifer resin, plant hairs, mud, or a mix of them to build nests. They are in the family Megachilidae which is cosmopolitan in distribution and made up of specie...
EditorialBar-throated apalis, Apalis thoracica (Thoracic warbler, Motacilla thoracica). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London,...
EditorialSo-called " Venus of Medici", showing the thoracic cavity and abdomen of a woman, one of the 1992 wax models ordered from Florentine scientists Prof. Paolo Mascagni and Felice Fontana by Emperor Joseph II for the education of army surgeons, 1785.