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Victorian coral illustrations from the Great Barrier Reef resurface

Original: Living Corals With Expanded Polyps (1893) by William Saville-Kent, from The Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Source: Raw

A 1893 colour illustration of living corals with expanded polyps by William Saville-Kent, from his book The Great Barrier Reef of Australia, is being shared online via the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Public Domain Image Archive. Readers are admiring the detail of the naturalist's artwork and the historic record it offers of reef marine life.

Why now: Historic scientific illustrations newly available as public domain images are attracting attention from nature and marine biology enthusiasts.

William Saville-KentGreat Barrier ReefBiodiversity Heritage LibraryPublic Domain Image Archive

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• Living Corals With Expanded Polyps (1893) by William Saville-Kent, from The Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Source: RawPixel / Biodiversity Heritage Library https:// pdimagearchive.org/images/bc42 3f5d-d594-4300-8ff5-1407338bc3d8 # nature # marine # fish # biology #… · pdimagearchive · 7

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