A Very Secret Trade Publication This A5 spiral bound lined

This A5 spiral bound lined notebook features an unidentified specimen from a pressed seaweed album

Van Diemen’s Land became a dumping ground for New Zealand’s unwanted

paint brush

For nearly seven decades

A Very Secret Trade Publication This A5 spiral bound linedIn the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony who could supply them with exotic specimens, including skeletons of the thylacine and the platypus. But they were not just interested in animals and plants. The belief that the original people of the colony were an utterly unique race and facing possible extinction had the European scientific