Leadbeater2
The name of Mr. Leadbeater, taxidermist at the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, in 1867, used in the possessive to designate Leadbeater's possum, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, a very rare Australian opossum named after him in 1867 by F. M'Coy (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 3rd Ser., XX. 287).
| 1937 Discovery XVIII. 364/1 The smaller gliding 'possums..whose ancestry is probably derived from the same stock as the extinct Leadbeater's 'Possum, feed on insects, nectar, fruit and sap. 1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby iii. 36 The rarest of all Australian animals—Leadbeater's possum. 1966 G. Durrell Two in Bush iv. 142 To the astonishment of incredulous naturalists, a tiny pocket of Leadbeater's Possum was discovered [in 1961] in the eucalyptus forest not far from Melbourne. 1968 Times 23 Jan. (Austral. Suppl.) p. xiii/3 Eric Wilkinson..saw something that made him stare in disbelief—clinging to the trunk of a wattle tree beside the road was a small, dainty animal which much resembled the Leadbeaters possum, presumed extinct. |