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The Mammals of Australia
''The Mammals of Australia'' is a three volume work written and published by John Gould between 1845–63. It contains 182 illustrations by the author and its artist H. C. Richter. It was intended to be a complete survey of the novel species of mammals, such as the marsupials, discovered in the colonies of Australia.
==Author==
The author, John Gould, best known for ''The Birds of Australia'' and other major works of ornithology, visited Australia in 1838. In his introduction, Gould says:
It was not until I arrived in the country, and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet, that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna.〔Hetherington, M. (John Gould's Birds of Australia ) in Peter Cochrane ed. Remarkable Occurrences: The National Library of Australia’s First 100 Years, 1901–2001. National Library of Australia〕
During his short stay he made observations on the natural history and employed his skills as a taxidermist to obtain specimens.
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