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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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The snozberries taste like snozberries...

from 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' by Schreber

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2019-03-04

in 1971, the Leadbeater's Possum became Victoria's faunal emblem

John Leadbeater was ’s first taxidermist. Professor McCoy had previously attempted to name a bird for him but was beaten to naming rights by John Gould!

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2019-03-02

in 1743, botanist on Captain Cook's first voyage, Sir Joseph Banks was born

The HMS Endeavour travelled to Brazil where Banks made the first scientific description of Bougainvillea

This is from Banks' Florilegium, after by Sydney Parkinson

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2019-02-13

Here's a fun hump day game:

Anyone wanna take a guess at what this is??

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2019-02-13

This Day I’d like to celebrate all the wonderful women represented in the library collection, including Anna and Susanna Lister, Elizabeth Gould, Maria Sibylla Merian, Helena Forde and Harriet Morgan, as well as all the inspiring women I work with

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2019-02-11

Following the lunar calendar, falls today, signalling the start of the Year of the 🐷

These domestic are from 'Thick-skinned quadrupeds' by Sir William Jardine (1856)

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2019-02-05

TFW you wake up super dehydrated...

from Schreber's 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' (1774-1855)

- https://t.co/7mFuaxnXOc

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2019-01-30

Woohoo it's !

Here I am slothing around outside the Forest Gallery at emulating this from 'Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' by Schreber

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2019-01-16