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![Icon with a light bulb, star, and shapes above a pencil.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2021-06/noun_creative_2713097.png.webp?itok=ToUd_4vR)
Make your Own Leaf Skeleton
Leaf skeleton art was a popular activity for Anglo-American women in the 19th century. Try making your own!
![Icon with a light bulb, star, and shapes above a pencil.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2021-06/noun_creative_2713097.png.webp?itok=ToUd_4vR)
Activity: Leaf Etching
Create leaf etchings!
![Olive penjing against a white wall.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2021-10/007%20Penjing-Jamie%20Pham.jpg.webp?itok=JQlUgTYD)
Penjing
“The goal is to create the sense of a tree as though you took it out of nature” —Che Zhao Sheng
![A hill in a garden. At the base of the hill are rocks, spherical green and yellow succulents, and purple flowers. On the hill are succulents with bright orange flowers. At the top of the hill are tall trees.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2022-05/0D6E844F-E6A4-44CC-8FF7-909DEF8EF30E.JPG.webp?itok=w9hzmUrV)
Desert Garden
Over the past 100 years, gardeners have transformed the Desert Garden into a 10-acre expanse with over 2000 species of succulents and desert plants.
![Printed illustration of a flea.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2022-06/RB487000_0930_Schem_XXXIV.jpg.webp?itok=ylu3MFZy)
Micrographia
Discovering a Hidden Universe and Creating Science
![A comet descends through the night sky toward earth. On earth, a house with a telescope stands next to a grouping of trees.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2022-06/p16003coll4_4858_full_1.jpg.webp?itok=1qL6ukcR)
Trouvelot’s Astronomical Drawings
“He had an uncanny capacity to combine art and science in such a way as to make substantial contributions to both fields.” Krystle Satrum, Assistant Curator, Jay T. Last Collection
![Illustrated mosquito with text above and below the mosquito. The text is in different fonts and in red and black. The text reads: This is Ann she's dying to meet you.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2022-06/p15150coll3_9970_extralarge.jpg.webp?itok=RsmhIygg)
This is Ann
Public Health with Dr. Seuss: Communicating Scientific Knowledge through Visual Storytelling.
![Color illustration of a plant with narrow palmate green leaves. Some of the leaves have holes in the center or rips near at the margin. The plant has a moth resting on a leaf and a moth flying near the stem. The plant has a larva resting on a stem and a cocoon attached to a stem. A large black yellow and red larva rests on a leaf. A cocoon rests on the stem and on a swollen root. A moth flies near the plant. A snake coils around the plant.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2022-06/RB145365_opp_p5.jpg.webp?itok=F39vskgP)
Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname
Merian discovered and shared new scientific information about insects, changing the way Europeans thought about entomology and ecology
![Color illustration of a plant with large green leaves and small flowers. Above the plant is a close up of a brown cylinder.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2022-06/p15150coll3_7933_full.jpg.webp?itok=6K1HNZ8E)
A Curious Herbal
In creating and publishing her scientific illustrations, Blackwell made important contributions to the medical field.
![A skeleton and elephant viewed from the front. The background is of trees, shrubs, and rocks.](/sites/default/files/styles/search_thumbnail/public/2022-06/RB621844_tab_IV%20smallest.JPG.webp?itok=kwQchbvD)
Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body
This collaborative effort between an anatomist and an artist revolutionized people’s understanding of the human body.