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Scott Rawlins

Scott Rawlins

Scott Rawlins is a scientific illustrator, naturalist and museum educator. He is a Professor Emeritus at Arcadia University where he taught scientific illustration from 1994 to 2022. He holds degrees from Earlham College (biology), the George Washington University (museum education) and the University of Michigan (medical & biological illustration). A strong proponent of study abroad, Scott has traveled to four continents collecting specimens to draw and study. He has served on the board of the American Society of Botanical Artists and the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. Scott's illustrations have appeared in numerous books, including Your Inner Fish and Shackelford's Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. Journals that have published his illustrations are Acta Zoologica, Records of the Australian Museum, Harvard's Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Geobios and Zootaxa.

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