Posts tagged with John Hunter (1737-1821)

  1. Wombat, wombach, whom-batt wonder: early scientific ‘trafficking’ of marsupalia to Europe

    The unique fauna of Australia intrigued, bemused and excited the imagination of their European ‘discovers’ from the moment of the first animal sightings in the late …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2016/12/13/wombat-wombach-whom-batt-wonder-early-scientific-trafficking-of-marsupalia-to-europe