http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2018/02/four-engravings-by-maria-sibylla-merian-acquired-by-museum-of-art/ A repository for Bowdoin news archives Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.11 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2018/02/four-engravings-by-maria-sibylla-merian-acquired-by-museum-of-art/comment-page-1/#comment-121583 Mon, 05 Mar 2018 20:05:46 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=145486#comment-121583 Finally, an image of what Annie Dillard saw in Tinker’s creek: the predaceous diving beetle liquefying a frog.(“Pilgrim at Tinker’s Creek”, 1974) I have always left that one to my imagination, but somehow an image from 1726, observed by another great observer of the natural world seems fair to “let in”. (“Water Scorpion, Frogs and Water Beetle,” 1726)

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