Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves vintage cast metal dinosaur and all the better for

and all the better for all of the very precise columns and grids of measurements and calculations packed onto them

5ʺw × 5ʺd×5 1/2ʺh

leaving the text to add up to "Our

lid opens smoothly and closes flush

this would be fairly usable as a ruler for smallish things

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves vintage cast metal dinosaur and all the better forThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect this one the structures of leaves with twenty different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor (undulate, peltate, bipinnate, etc.) More than ever these days, when delight in the natural world