The animals of Australia : mammals, reptiles and amphibians / by A.H.S. Lucas ; assisted by W.H. Dudley Le Souëf.
- Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The animals of Australia : mammals, reptiles and amphibians / by A.H.S. Lucas ; assisted by W.H. Dudley Le Souëf. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I’RKFACK puhlishecl ])v the Vietoriaii ftovei-nmeiit; to the works on Snakes l)v Kretft and l)v AVaite; various papers in the Proceedino's ot* the Linnean Soeiety of New Soutli Wales, and tlie Royal Societies of the several States; to the IMeiiioirs of the Horn and other Kx])cditions; and foi- many interesting notices of habits to the reseai’cln^s of the Field Naturalists’ Clnh of Victoria, recorded in the Victorian Xaluralisl. Other works have been consnlted, and are alluded to in the text. The illustrations have been collected with a considei'able anionnt of labour, and have be(*n dei-ived from a variety of sources. l>y the 'cnerons permission of the Tnistees and the Curatoi', a larye series of i)hoto”ra])hs has been seeni-ed of the animals in the Australian IMnseum, and onr thanks are due to them and to the officers and assistants for the ready facilities atforded for the |)ui‘[H)se. A few others were obtaiiied of animals in the collections of the Atacleay IMusenm and the Sydney Technological iMnseum. We have also to thaidv the Tnistees of the British iMusenm and the (Jovernment of Victoria, for junmiission to copy illustrations from some of the British IMnsenm Catalogues, and the Prodromns of the Zoology of Victoria. As many as ])ossible of the tignres are from life. For some of these we havi* to thank JMessrs. Cb Frost, A. E. II. iMattingiey, A. R. IMcChilloch, J. B. Bane, A. .]. Hamilton, and Professor J. P. Hill. Where no acknowledgment is made it will be understood that the photographs were taken by the authors.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28108759_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
