Congratulations to Abe Gibson (2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow), whose first book, Feral Animals in the American South: An Evolutionary History, is in press with Cambridge University Press and expected to appear in summer of 2016.
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These confection-like illustrations are actual representations of objects viewed under a polariscope, spotted in the title The microscope (1867) by Jabez Hogg. According to the text, “This plate is especially intended to illustrate the beautiful and gorgeous spectacle produced by polarized light on the various objects here grouped together. Image courtesy of Yale University.