Shaw G., Nodder F. The Naturalist's Miscellany or Coloured Figures of Natural Objects Drawn and Described Immediately from Nature. Volume 1

London: Printed for Nodder & Co.,1789. — 608 p.First of 24 volumes of «The Naturalist's Miscellany» bbeing a handbook of plants, animals and birds likewise. George Shaw (10 December 1751 – 22 July 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University. He was a co-founder of the Linnean Society in 1788, and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1789. Shaw published one of the first English descriptions with scientific names of several Australian animals in his "Zoology of New Holland" (1794). He was among the first scientists to examine a platypus and published the first scientific description of it in The Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799.