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📷: 19th century drawing of the of a in our collection

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2019-03-07

For some in the animal kingdom, every day is Fat Tuesday

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2019-03-05

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

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2019-02-21

Encountered some very poisonous (and rather storybook-esque) looking on our hike

I think I found a match on in ‘Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux’ (1891) - https://t.co/ulwnupVSA3

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2019-02-19

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)

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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:

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

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2019-01-10