Scientific Illustration

Black Flying Opossum by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.

The Prodromus

Rebecca Carland and John Kean uncover the story behind Frederick McCoy’s beautiful and fascinating collection of scientific illustrations called The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria.

For more information see:

http://museumvictoria.com.au/caughtandcoloured/

http://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryof610mcco

heaveninawildflower:

Banded hare-wallabies of Bernier Island (1807). Charles-Alexandre Lesueur.

Source -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/7979792552/in/set-72157631519809640 via Wikimedia.

Australian lepidoptera and their transformations, drawn from the life by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

London :John van Voorst,1864, 1890-1898..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35774523

Australian lepidoptera and their transformations, drawn from the life by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

London :John van Voorst,1864, 1890-1898..
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35774497

Prodromus of the paleontology of Victoria by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Melbourne :G. Skinner, acting government printer;1874-.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13774426

Prodromus of the paleontology of Victoria by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Melbourne :G. Skinner, acting government printer;1874-.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13774412

wanderingfalcon:

Black Cockatoos by William T. Cooper

fearof-theunknown:

Bullockornis, nicknamed the carnivorous “Demon Duck of Doom,” stood over 10 feet tall and lived c.15 million years ago in Australia.

Bullockornis seems to have been more closely related to ducks and geese than to modern ostriches, and its heavy, prominent beak points to its having had a carnivorous diet.

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