Amelia Trueworthy Hart

I found the only surviving photograph of Amelia, taken in London after her return from one of her explorations, posing with two of her "finds".  Amelia shunned the habit of fellow explorers of her time by refusing to kill and stuff creatures she found.  She made careful drawings and descriptions in her field notes journal instead.  But on this trip, she befriended two of the creatures and they accompanied her home.  I had to carefully hand color them, using her field journal as a reference, so you can see these delightful specimens.  As I go through the volumes of drawings Amelia did over the years, I will be posting more of her finds.  According to her final journal, she returned these two to where she discovered them, on a remote island in the South Pacific, and stayed with them until her death in 1914.

Gift#82: rain today not snow!