It's #WorldBeeDay! 
This gorgeous gynandromorph potter flower bee is described in a 1845 article in The Zoologist by English entomologist Frederick Smith. It's pictured from above (left) and below (right).
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It is a pleasure to see Charles Darwin's original signature in the Charter Book of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, signed in January 1839 (two years after his return from the Beagle voyage)
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Happy Easter to all who celebrate! 
No cute lambs or bunnies in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a *lot* of queer chickens. This is Hector, a 'hen-cock' pictured in the Sporting Magazine in March 1833 and mentioned by Charles Darwin in his 1868 book The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication!
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My 2023 article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain,' published in Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, has now been made free to access! 
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036
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