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A monograph of the genus Casuarius London :Zoological Society of London,1900 biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15139948
Image taken from: Title: "Songs of Near and Far Away. Illustrated and written by E. Richardson" Author(s): Richardson, Emmeline [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 11651.l.48" Page: 45 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: London (England) Date of publication: 1900 Publisher: Cassell Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English Physical description: 80 pages (4°) Explore this item in the British Library’s catalogue: 003093646 (physical copy) and 014828244 (digitised copy) (numbers are British Library identifiers) Other links related to this image: - View this image as a scanned publication on the British Library’s online viewer (you can download the image, selected pages or the whole book) - Order a higher quality scanned version of this image from the British Library Other links related to this publication: - View all the illustrations found in this publication - View all the illustrations in publications from the same year (1900) - Download the Optical Character Recognised (OCR) derived text for this publication as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) - Explore and experiment with the British Library’s digital collections The British Library community is able to flourish online thanks to freely available resources such as this. You can help support our mission to continue making our collection accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment, by donating on the British Library supporter webpage here. Thank you for supporting the British Library.
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