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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

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

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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

is nearly here, so I’ve picked an appropriate for

The (Euphorbia pulcherrima) in its beautiful red and green is believed to have been used as a Christmas decoration as early as the 17th C

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2018-12-21

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

I think my favourite thing about these weirdo is that they look like they've all been caught doing something...

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

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2018-12-14

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 6
A little robin from Eleazer Albin's 'A Natural History of (1738-40). With over 300 hand-coloured engravings by Albin & his daughter Elizabeth, this was the first British work of to feature hand-coloured plates.

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2018-12-06

Day 4
It was a frosty morning in this morning, so here's a lovely arctic fox from John Ross's 'Narrative of the 2nd Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage', 1835.

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2018-12-04

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

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