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Title: The Victorian naturalist
Year: 1884 (1880s)

Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas  (1853–1936)
Alternative names	A.H.S.Lucas; Arthur Henry Shakespeare Luras; A. H. S. Lucas
Description	British botanist and entomologist
Date of birth/death	7 May 1853	10 June 1936
Location of birth/death	Stratford-upon-Avon	Albury
Authority file	: Q2865141 VIAF: 3802231 ISNI: 0000000084178738 LCCN: n81111921 Botanist: A.H.S.Lucas Open Library: OL4506631A WorldCat

Francis George Allman Barnard  (1857–1932)
	Alternative names	Birth name: Francis George Allman Barnard; Barnard; F. G. A. ‎Barnard; Francis Barnard
	Description	Australian-British naturalist, pharmacist, politician, editor and cricketer
	Date of birth/death	1857 / 26 December 1857	1932 / 2 June 1932 / 1 June 1932
	Location of birth/death	Melbourne	Melbourne
	Authority file	: Q3081456 VIAF: 40699264 LCCN: n81089221 NLA: 36356473 WorldCat

Subjects: Natural history Natural history
Publisher: (Melbourne) Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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r and John Brownlie,and the dust jacket design is by RobinHill. Indeed, to have this book is a verygood reason for watching televisionless often. G.M.W. M. B. SEWARD PTY. LTD 72-74 Bourke Street, Melbourne(6 Doors above Exhibition Street) Phone: 662-1077 Specialists in Naturalists Requisites Pins, Forceps,Butterfly nets, etc., Microscopes (Beginners toResearch Models), Bausch and Lomb (U.S.A.) Micro-scopes, 1 OOx case, $14.50. Merker (Austria) high quality FieldMicroscope (20x to 200x) folds intocase 51 x 4 x 2-\. $27.50. Binoculars, Telescopes, Survey Instruments, etc. BOOKS On Natural History,Australia, Art, General.New and Secondhand.Lists Free. State Requisites. May, 1968 137 Naturalists Diary: Norman A. Wakefield (Longmans, 1967, 214 pages, $4.50) Reviewed by Evan Rowlands When Norman Wakefield began towrite his weekly nature column inthe Age, several years ago, I realizedthat a unique opportunity was at handto learn from the experience of aremarkably gifted scientist. I began to
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collect articles, and today they lieyellowing and dusty in my files. Now Norman Wakefield has earnedthe gratitude of such as I by collectingan early series of his articles into bookform. And a fine book it turns out tobe! Produced on excellent quality paperand bound in a way that gives theappearance of red leather, it feelsgood in the hand of the book lover.Inside are eighty-two articles, arrangedin seven sections: Places, Mammals,Birds, Reptiles, Spiders, Insects, andPlant Life. These are illustrated byover eighty photographs, the greatmajority of which have been takenby the author. My own favouritesamong these pictures would be theHelmeted Honeyeater at the nest(page 121), the Sugar Gliders caughtfeeding at night on the trunk of aLong-leaf Box (page 38), the awe-some chasm of the Reedy River gorge(page 2), and the coloured frontis-piece of the Western Pigmy-possum. Based as they are on a lifetime offield work combined with soundscholarship, the articles are authorit-ative. Norman Wa

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