This illustration is elegant and whimsical, which is what we tell our cover artists is the only requirement for each issue. This is not, however, the cover of issue four. (More on this later.)

biomedicalephemera:

The Ornithorhynchus

This illustration makes me feel like I could train a platypus to beg for treats…they’d probably stab me with their venomous leg-spikes. Well, the males, at least. 

Types of Animal Life. St. George Mivart, 1893.