Thanks for the info!

Given what's going on in the lagoon, no wonder this #turtle looks a little alarmed ... #paleoart #fossilfriday
#bookhistory

Thank you! The Crossed Wings patterns are really fun to work and always come out well.

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I have this! So delightful to learn about someone who read it as a child. (And the bell tinkles so sweetly.) I'm glad she could find a copy for you; I cherish a copy of the book my father looooved when he was young.

And isn't that the remains of a bloom in the bottom?

2/2 How to make a spring whistle: cut a length of poplar or green willow. Tap the bark all over to loosen it & slip off the bark in 1 piece. Shape the whistle; slide the bark back on. Whistle plays as long as it stays moist.

Looks like fun! I look forward to trying it!

Bought it!

Been there; done that. Absolutely love Dinosaurs Without Bones.

Thanks for posting these! At least in the 21st century, computers mean that even male academics I knew did their own typing. (Blast it: I now have multiple Ask a Manager tabs open; that site sucks me in.)

Skylark Bookshop and Yellow Dog Bookshop, both in Columbia, Missouri (a university town). Good luck!

4/4 The bond would be $15,184 in 2024—a hefty sum. That the doctor is “respectable” probably implies that he has no sexual designs on the student and that she isn’t prostituting herself; that the doctor is arrested implies that the crime is her gaining an education in medicine with his cooperation.

3/4 "On the strength of these suspicions, application was made to a justice for warrants to arrest the doctor and his student. These were granted, the arrests were made, the suspicions proved true and both were bound over in the sum of $500 each to appear at the March court."

2/4 from the Wilkes-Barre Advocate 7 March 1838:
"A respectable physician, in Mercer county, Pa. was recently suspected of having a young female studying medicine in male attire.