Category: Thordarson Collection

• Extinct Birds & Rare Books: The Example of the Great Auk

  Posted on Sep 8th

  In conjunction with the first event of the fall semester sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, we will make available […]

• A Matter of Scale: The Flamingo in Audubon’s Birds of America

  Posted on Jul 28th

  On display through August 1 (this Friday!) in our exhibit “Books of Nature” is the magnificent illustration of the American flamingo in […]

• A “Hard Frost” and George Cruikshank

  Posted on Jan 21st

  An exhibit in Special Collections several years ago, entitled “Stormy Weather,” featured a case with volumes of George Cruikshank’s Comic almanack, one per month […]

• Hooke’s Micrographia makes multiple appearances

  Posted on Dec 29th

  The copy in Special Collections of Robert Hooke’s influential Micrographia: Or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses [that is, […]

• Willughby’s turkey

  Posted on Nov 21st

  In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, we offer here the turkey from The ornithology of Francis Willughby, as edited for publication […]