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Happy #Feathursday! The Eastern Rosella (Platycercus eximius) is native to southeast #Australia and #Tasmania. #SciArt by James Sowerby for "Zoology of New Holland" ([1793]-1794), with text by George Shaw. Contributed to the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary by @museumsvictoria as part of #BHL Australia: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40653675 -------------------------------------- #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #MuseumsVictoria #sciart #BHLAu #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries

Algae (Plocamium hookeri). #SciArt by William Henry Harvey for his Nereis Australis, or Algae of the Southern Ocean: being figures and descriptions of marine plants, collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra-tropical Australian colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic regions; deposited in the Herbarium of the Dublin University (1847-49). Contributed for digitization by Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia, Atlas of Living Australia, and Museums Victoria (@museumsvictoria) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46201265 _________________________________________________ #Algae #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries #MuseumsVictoria #BHLAu

Happy #FishyFriday! The old wife #fish (Enoplosus armatus) is endemic to the temperate coastal waters of #Australia. #SciArt by James Sowerby for "Zoology of New Holland" ([1793]-1794), with text by George Shaw. Contributed to the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary by @museumsvictoria as part of #BHL Australia: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40653649 -------------------------------------- #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #MuseumsVictoria #sciart #fish #BHLAu #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries

Anyone up for a cruise to the South Pole on this #TravelTuesday? Join the explorations as an armchair traveler with The Cruise of the Antarctic to the South Polar Regions (1896) by Henrik Johan Bull. Contributed for digitization by Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia and @museumsvictoria to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46292002 _________________________________________________ #SouthPole #PolarExplorations #Antarctic #Ships #Travel #Expeditions #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries #BHLAu #MuseumsVictoria

Red Sea Whip (Ellisella ceratophyta). #SciArt by Richard Polydore Nodder. George Shaw, Naturalist's Miscellany (1789-1813), Vol. 16. Contributed for digitization by Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia and Museums Victoria (@museumsvictoria) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40521323 _________________________________________________ #RedWhipCoral #Coral #MarineInvertebrates #Oceans #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #LibrariesofInstagram #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries #MuseumsVictoria #BHLAu

Time to explore more #BoatsintheLibrary -- this month's #LibrariesChallenge for the #LibrariesofInstagram! This lovely book cover shows the Endurance, a three-masted barquentine that was crushed by ice and sunk in 1915 bringing an halt to the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. From the book, South: the Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917 by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922). Contributed for digitization by Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia and Museums Victoria (@museumsvictoria) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48114722 _________________________________________________ #Shackleton #Endurance #Ships #Boats #Exploration #Antarctica #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #NatHist #ScientificIllustration #ScientificArt #OpenAccess #Libraries #Archives #SpecialCollections #IGLibraries #IG_Libraries #MuseumsVictoria #BHLau #BHLAustralia