Letter - Archive, John Cotton, 1843-1849, Letter on single sheet of paper folded into four, written (presumably) by ornithologist John Cotton to his brother circa 1834-1848. It begins ' The principle peculiarity in Australian Zoology is the total absence of large quadrupeds, and the paucity of the smaller ' The inside folds contain two sketches of mammals, described as a flying 'opossum' and a rat; the back illustrates the beak

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Letter - Archive, John Cotton, 1843-1849, Letter on single sheet of paper folded into four, written (presumably) by ornithologist John Cotton to his brother circa 1834-1848. It begins ' The principle peculiarity in Australian Zoology is the total absence of large quadrupeds, and the paucity of the smaller ' The inside folds contain two sketches of mammals, described as a flying 'opossum' and a rat; the back illustrates the beak

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