Madame Maria Merian 366th birthday

Peter Lacey

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02-04-13, 09:05 AM

In this years BTS lectures Andrew Smith followed the route taken by Madame Maria Merian in Surinam, today we celebrate this wonderful woman, who gave us the term bird eating spider, with her 366th birthday.

Maria Sibylla Merian: Google pays tribute to artist-naturalist

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/apr/02/maria-sibylla-merian-google-doodle

Search engine marks 366th anniversary of birth of German artist-naturalist known for her book on the insects of Suriname

My Collection - Summer 2011

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Peter Lacey

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02-04-13, 09:20 AM

Far more information is found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sibylla_Merian

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Ray Hale

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02-04-13, 03:10 PM

A great woman indeed Peter. Even Google celbrated her birthday.

Ray

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