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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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We have so much stuff in the library collection so I'll be sharing a few today starting with this ghost from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1880)


https://t.co/64EIZ9yfZl

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...and for the it has to be John Gould's sumptuous 'A monograph of the with by H.C. Richter

Also available on via https://t.co/Ri931uUC4P

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Happy and hummingbird day!

My go-to for of from the library is 'The Naturalist's Miscallany'

Our copies are on for all to enjoy! https://t.co/elpNZ4oD7g

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Who do you reckon is going to win the Grand Final tomorrow?

But more importantly, - who would in in an actual fight between an and a

Images: John Gould, Birds of Australia

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“As I turned the fragile pages, I was unable to resist running my cotton-gloved fingers over the hand-coloured engravings. Butterfies danced, caterpillars chewed, glossy metallic cocoons hung suspended from the undersides of the leaves by the slenderest of threads”

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in 1936, the or Tasmanian Tiger was named a protected animal, only 59 days before the last known specimen died in captivity

by H.C. Richter for John 'Mammals of v.1 (1863)

Images via

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June 24 is and here is one of my favourite objects brought to life: 'Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium' by Maria Sibylla Merian

Credit for gif: Richard Naples via competition 2014, using source material from

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I always thought were cute, but these ones from Audubon's 'Quadrupeds of North America' (1851-54) are frankly terrifying

I missed but I figure it's still yesterday somewhere...

Images via & book also held library

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The library doesn’t have much botanical material, we transferred most of it to the at some point, so starting to struggle with posts! Here is gorgeous Merian’s ‘De Europische insecten’ (1730)

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For the second week of the challenge I've taken advantage of 's BRAND NEW full-text search feature to find some inhabiting some

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