Tuesday 8 October 2013

William Swainson

Commemorated in Google today as it was his birthday. Fantastic wildlife illustrator. Found this great quote about him...

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The botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker, wrote of this as: "In my life I think I never read such a series of trash and nonsense. There is a man who left this country with the character of a first rate naturalist (though with many eccentricities) and of a very first-rate Natural History artist and he goes to Australia and takes up the subject of Botany, of which he is as ignorant as a goose."
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I like the last part especially. Feels familiar.

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