Beatrix Potter is best remembered for her charming tales of Peter Rabbit, but did you know she also studied #science?
Potter collected & examined beetles, butterflies, plants, bird eggs, shells, rocks, fossils & especially fungi. She conducted experiments & wrote a scientific paper with her own illustrations, presented at the Linnean Society of London. However, as a woman in the Victorian era, she couldn’t even attend the meeting. #history #art #books
Drawings by Potter of a ground beetle, Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, via Frederick Warne & Co Ltd
Potter aged fifteen with her springer spaniel, Spot. Source: Wikipedia