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Librarian @MuseumsVictoria / Adjunct Lecturer @SISCSU / Rare books, cataloguing, marketing. Views expressed are my personal views. She/her 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇦🇺

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Soulmates. Friendship. Devotion. Grief.

LOVE is a new exhibition from + which explores the most common of all human experiences ❤️

Featuring the love story of John and Elizabeth Gould, and her gorgeous from ‘Birds of Australia’

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2018-12-08

Good news: I now have a folder on my computer called 'effed up animals' and it is filling up fast

This file is called 'muscular bat' (seriously, how did this get so buff?!)

From 'Die saugthiere in abbildungen nach der natur' by Schreber (1774-1846)

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2018-12-07

It’s so shout out to my favourite my boy Patrick Russell

These two striking are from ‘Descriptions and figures of two hundred (1803)

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2018-11-30

Another spot the difference...

On the left an from Seba's 'Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio' (1734-65)

On the right an opossum from Schreber's 'Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes représentés d´après nature' (1780)

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2018-11-28


I wanted to find a plant to coincide with so here's the closest thing I could find - a

A very striking Sphenopteris artemisiifolia from 'Illustrations of fossil plants' (1877)

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2018-11-23

This week's is a delightful Himalayan Dolomiaea from 'Illustrations of the ... of the Himalayan Mountains' by Royle (1839)

Most of the plates in this work are after Vishnupersaud, the greatest Indian artist of his time

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2018-11-16

So strange was the when it was first described, George Shaw writes in his description: “at first view, it naturally excites the idea of some deceptive preparation by artificial means”

Apparently Shaw cut off the beak to make sure it wasn’t stitched on as a

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2018-11-15

Can someone please write a story about these two unlikely pals?

Some for y'all courtesy of the aptly named volume 'Dogs' from The Naturalist's Library series

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2018-11-14

Gorgeous of a Roseate Spoonbill from George Shaw’s ‘The Naturalist’s Miscellany’, with by FP. Nodder

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2018-11-13

Some terrifying from the supplement to Schreber's 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' (1840)

Thankfully not human, these are skulls!



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2018-10-31