Botanical Drying Album
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Album: "BOTANICAL / DRYING ALBUM". Botanical specimens with taxonomy handwritten in capitals in black ink on labels affixed below fern specimens. Ferns affixed with sellotape. Inscription handwritten in black ink and affixed inside album cover: "To Miss W Lysnar / I have gathered these ferns at random / As I ramble about day by day / To me t'is a pleasure to hand them / To one in the morn of lifes day / They are only a few out of many / But that many will soon be a few / For Bush fires seldom leave any / So I hand this lot over to you / M J". Inscription handwritten in black ink on fly page: "W. Lysnar. 1915." Label typed in black ink affixed with sellotape to fly page: "ROYAL FOREST AND BIRD SOCIETY". Ferns named by Colleen Veitch.
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