Thanks very much! I am working on it and do hope to publish the portraits and bios.

Thanks!

Oh dear!

I hope you get some good news soon.

My portrait combines a #linocutminouette.etsy.com/listing/1266...

Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions in October 1843, and two further volumes in the next decade. She collaborated with Anne Dixon (1799–1864) to produce further books of cyanotypes on ferns and flowering plants and also published other non-scientific or photographic books. 🧵2/3

For #WorldCyanotypeDay#histsci She made photograms with algae specimen placed directly on paper treated with photochemicals in 🧵1/n

Tolerant of metamorphic pressure and temps, #Topaz#MinCup24

Pretty blue Kyanite is used in porcelain(though more dishware/plumbing than art) but it is used in jewelry. Points for physics as an index mineral. But topaz wins the art vote with centuries of gems, carving & jewelry. Plus on the physics front we have its use in lens & xray spectroscopy #MinCup24

NOoooooooooo! 😭 Quartz and calcite must be avenged! Though, TBH I feel like the chants of ‘meat rock’ might take rhodochrosite straight through to the final. Then, maybe in 2025 we’ll have better luck without any forbidden bacon.