About 600 books and 66 serials mainly relating to entomology and the natural sciences. The strength is works on British entomology but also includes Europe, North and South America. About one-third were published in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Explore the connections between living things, the environments they inhabit, and the forces that shape them. 

Charles Massy and Mandy Foot

Inspired by one of our latest acquisitions, learn a bit about the history of the Australian wool industry.

Dianne Wolfer, illustrated by Erica Wagner

Wendy Cooper

919 watercolours and gouaches of flowers and birds of Australia and Papua New Guinea painted 1870-1920, plus a small quantity of personal papers.

See some of the many talented bird artists from the 19th and 20th centuries in our collection.

About 5000 books, pamphlets, reprints and journals published 1760-1940 in English, French, German, Italian and Russian. They relate to all aspects of ornithology in all parts of the world, with a special focus on Australian birds.

The Library recently acquired an original draft of a poem by Mark Twain in the form of a letter.

A large number of photographs and negatives taken by Loke Wan Tho on his ornithological expeditions to the Pacific, Asia and Europe in the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as papers, books and maps.

Katherine Kovacic, the author of NLA Publishing's new title Australia's Dogs, talks about the photography included.