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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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Anyone else been snacking a lot recently?

Another one from Mark Catesby’s ‘The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands’

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2020-03-29

Today would have been Mark Catesby’s 337th birthday

The naturalist published ‘The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands’, which is the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America

This is the first rare book I was ever shown!

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2020-03-24

Today is the International Day of Happiness so I’m bringing the content we all need today: two of my favourite anthropomorphised animals looking happy as Larry

Both from ‘Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur’
Flick through this book on cos it’s BANANAS

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2020-03-20

It’s been a weird day.

I’ve been given the opportunity to work from home for now and have taken it. A couple of people have made it clear they think I’m being over the top, but I’m doing the best thing for my physical and mental health based on the information I have

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2020-03-16

Today is so I am drawing attention to some endangered native Australian animals: the Black-flanked rock-wallaby, Gouldian finch & Northern quoll

If you can, please donate to an organisation working to help wildlife recover from the bushfires, such as

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2020-03-03

Everyone loves a cockatoo!

I think these two are particularly charming, from 'Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte' by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1795)

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2020-02-17

Roses are red
Violets are blue
This is my nightmare
How about you?
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

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2020-02-14

Tag yourself: I’m the baby bird giving out serious side-eye

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2020-02-10

Flicking through John Gould’s ‘Monograph of the Trochilidae’ (1849-61) for the first time and I was surprised to see that some of the hummingbirds have been heightened with metallic paint, they are SO beautiful!

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2020-02-06

The sheer ridiculousness of asking someone which monkey they think is the most erotic far overshadows the challenge I was going to post 🐒

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2020-02-05