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Here's a fun hump day game:

Anyone wanna take a guess at what this is??

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2019-02-13

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

Ice shoves, snow clearing, horses! L'hiver au Canada in the early 1900s. Topographical Postcard Collection https://t.co/6VV8WO7inl

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2019-01-20

Our next eCatalogue will be devoted to and this wide-eyed spectral tarsier will be in it, unless someone orders this interesting book today:

https://t.co/2kSbJ3XYb4

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2019-01-17

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

The Feast of the was a Christian feast observed on 14 Jan celebrating stories in the

from Schreber 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' https://t.co/9TjAPf3pQV

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2019-01-14

While we are late to this paddle party and a bit early for we'll waddle in to the with a bird made of feathers from the Feather Book of Dionisio Minaggio. He looks pretty dapper for a 400 year old Duck .

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2019-01-10

Our first eCatalogue of 2019 is devoted to the Download here:

https://t.co/PweeKHOxpR

23 & (from period 1558-1857) on and other subjects concering

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2019-01-10

It’s a bloody scorcher in Melbourne today 😅

Here’s a couple of that look as hot as I feel rn from Curtis’ ‘Botanical magazine’ via

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2019-01-04

On the seventh day of my true love gave to me...
Seven a-swimming

from John Gould's '#Birds of Great Britain' via - https://t.co/jNzm0p7t2f

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2018-12-19

On the sixth day of my true love gave to me...
Six a-laying

Geese from a Larousse encyclopedia (1922), egg from Seebohm ‘A history of British birds’ (1883-95), collage by Kathy Heyward

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2018-12-18

Day 17
The familiar tradition of decking the halls with boughs of holly for winter festivals pre-dates Christmas. Today is the Roman festival of Saturnalia, when Romans would decorate their houses with holly & exchange gifts.

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2018-12-17

On the first day of my true love gave to me...
A in a tree

from Gould 'Birds of Europe' and 'Lessons from the vegetable world'; collage by Kathy Heyward

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2018-12-13

Day 11
A & Sami family, from a 1674 English translation of 'The history of Lapland', by Swedish humanist Johannes Schefferus. Did you know the Sami are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe?

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2018-12-11

Day 10
Will you be eating figgy pudding this Christmas? A tradition dating back to C16th, when fig trees became commonplace in English gardens. This hand-coloured by Johann Muller (or John Miller) dates from 1777.

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2018-12-10