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The Norfolk Island Flying Squirrel. from "The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay" 1789 #SquirrelGlider https://t.co/rmOd8kVxWh via @NHM_London & @BioDivLibrary
To celebrate World Digital Preservation Day, we're digitising something very special - actually two editions of something very special - to be uploaded onto @BioDivLibrary. Here's a sneak peak! Stay tuned..
#WDPD2018
The Common Opossum, beautifully illustrated by Miss Harriett Scott & Mrs Helena Forde in Krefft's 1871 "The mammals of Australia" (on @BioDivLibrary via @SILibraries https://t.co/GdKejvFO8k #SciArt #AustralianBrushtailPossum #BrushtailPossum
"Le Phalanger volant nain", from René Primevère Lesson's "Compléments de Buffon",1838. #FeathertailGlider https://t.co/9UKRgVt11G via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries
The "Parkinsonian Paradise-Bird" (from an illustration by Sydenham Edwards in George Shaw's "The Naturalist's Miscellany" 1803) #Lyrebird via @museumvictoria @BioDivLibrary @atlaslivingaust https://t.co/MTjGXgD9O4
"Green Tree Snake", 1869. Illustrated by Harriet Scott, in Krefft's "The Snakes of Australia". https://t.co/tW06ZFZKPP via @mayrlibrary @BioDivLibrary #CommonTreeSnake (Dendrelaphis punctulatus
The Green & Golden Bell Frog was 1st described by Lesson in 1829. https://t.co/bNOClkD7RE (pic https://t.co/l7Qa1yXCcy) via @SILibraries @biodivlibrary
John Gould described 44% of Australia's bird species, many in this volume: "A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia" (1837). https://t.co/0yTqgnYtgV, digitised for @BioDivLibrary by @museumsvictoria @atlaslivingaust
The Southern Brown Bandicoot (Porculine Opossum) was described for the first time by George Shaw in 1797. https://t.co/3U73jnOBYp Via @museumsvictoria @BioDivLibrary
Don't forget to stop & smell the Chocolate Lilies this #ChocolateWeek. They smell divine - like chocolate! Pic: Australia's Goldfields Chocolate-Lily (Arthropodium strictum) from Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1884) https://t.co/FRaMjnMKsa Via @mobotgarden @BioDivLibrary #BHLCurtis