BHL Australiaさんのイラストまとめ

This copy of "An essay towards a natural history of the corallines" has an interesting provenance history, having once been owned by Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, who was part of York’s intellectual culture in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Happy Easter from @bhl_au. Hope the Easter Bilby came! (image from Gould's "Mammals of Australia" via @BioDivLibrary & @SILibraries https://t.co/m9Lkwk5u73) #Easter #EasterBilby

BHL Australia has now made over 400,000 pages of Australia's biodiversity heritage literature freely accessible via @biodivlibrary. Thank you to our 37 @bhl_au contributors for all these pages & to @atlaslivingaust for funding this essential project. https://t.co/n5FiIh4duF

"Few animals are more graceful when running than those of the Kangaroo tribe; but ... artists will not take the trouble to observe them ... when a sketch is attempted, a caricature is the result. We appeal to the rising generation & trust they will learn to draw a Kangaroo" 1/3

In 2020, @bhl_au grew to include:
* Australasian Systematic Botany Society @ASBS_botany
* Aust'n Network for Plant Conservation @ANPlantC
* Nth Qld Naturalists Club
* Geelong Field Naturalists Club
* Qld Herbarium @QldGov
* SA Herbarium @BotGardensSA
See: https://t.co/n5FiIh4duF

To celebrate our 10th birthday (today), we present the most-viewed book on @BioDivLibrary contributed by an Australian organisation (@museumsvictoria): "The Naturalist's Miscellany" vol. 1, which contains the 1st scientific description of a kangaroo (1790) https://t.co/zH4LLUlTuT

The 3rd most-viewed volume uploaded onto @BioDivLibrary by Australia is ANOTHER of Shaw's The Naturalist's Miscellany. Like the other volumes, #21 (1809-10) contains Australian species, such as this Little Lorikeet & Snowflake Volute. https://t.co/FQuiFAnC8S via @museumsvictoria

The #4 most-viewed book uploaded onto @biodivlibary by Australia is Paul Gervais’ 1844 “Atlas de zoologie”, which contains 257 figures of animals that were new or little-known at the time, including this lovely selection from Australia https://t.co/zshHjEwuVW via @museumsvictoria

The 5th most popular book contributed to @BioDivLibrary by an Australian organisation is – drum roll – the 1st volume ever published on Australian fauna: George Shaw's 1794 "Zoology of New Holland" (from @museumsvictoria's rare book collection) https://t.co/zTB8aG35PV

The 7th most-viewed book contributed to @biodivlibrary by an Australian organisation is "An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801" by David Collins (1804) from @museumsvictoria's library. https://t.co/Fst2l96c0K