Lithographic proof - Murray Spiny Crayfish, Euastacus armatus, Ludwig Becker, before 1878, This hand coloured proof by Ludwig Becker was commissioned by Frederick McCoy, Director of Museum Victoria as part of his zoological research. It forms part of the much larger Prodromus Collection. Many of the original illustrations in the collection informed the production of the two volume work The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria which was Museum Victoria's first major publication

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Lithographic proof - Murray Spiny Crayfish, Euastacus armatus, Ludwig Becker, before 1878, This hand coloured proof by Ludwig Becker was commissioned by Frederick McCoy, Director of Museum Victoria as part of his zoological research. It forms part of the much larger Prodromus Collection. Many of the original illustrations in the collection informed the production of the two volume work The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria which was Museum Victoria's first major publication

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